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Senior Counsel, Competition

OpenAI
OpenAI Salary
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 10/28/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/26/2026
About The Team

OpenAI's Legal team plays a crucial role in furthering OpenAI's mission by tackling innovative, fundamental legal issues in AI. If you're passionate about doing significant and unique work as a technology lawyer, this team is for you. The team comprises professionals from diverse fields, including technology, AI, privacy, IP, corporate, employment, tax law, regulatory, and litigation.

About The Role

We’re seeking a senior lawyer to help support OpenAI in the area of competition and antitrust. This role will involve engaging with competition regulators globally and helping set our competition strategy.

We’re looking for an experienced competition lawyer who is excellent at regulatory engagement, can operate at a fast pace with high volume of matters, and is a strong leader and manager. This role reports to our Associate General Counsel of Competition.

In This Role, You Will

  • Support strategy and regulatory engagement for OpenAI in the area of competition and antitrust.
  • Advise on commercial partnerships and acquisitions from an antitrust perspective.
  • Respond to RFIs and other inquiries from competition regulators.
  • Collaborate with global policy and regulatory affairs to anticipate and navigate competition scrutiny in the area of AI.
  • Advise business and other legal teams on compliance with antitrust laws.

You Might Thrive In This Role If You Have

  • 10 years of legal experience in the area of antitrust.
  • A mix of in-house and top-tier law firm experience.
  • Experience working for a competition regulator is a plus.
  • Expertise in regulatory review of mergers and acquisitions and associated filings.
  • Experience leading strategy and responses to antitrust investigations at a technology company.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate with autonomy and sound judgment in highly technical and fast-moving environments.
  • Exceptional communication skills, with an ability to distill complexity into actionable, business-aligned guidance.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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