You will be responding to customer cybersecurity assessments and questionnaires with accuracy and timeliness. This involves coordinating with internal stakeholders to gather and verify information aligned with customer requirements, reviewing contracts and documentation to extract and modify relevant security and compliance data, and supporting the development and maintenance of internal processes and documentation for assessment responses.

Key responsibilities include identifying trends in customer requests and contributing to continuous process improvements, maintaining accurate records and knowledge base content to streamline future assessments, and providing feedback and metrics to executive management to enhance visibility and decision-making.

To succeed in this role, you will need an associate degree or higher in a relevant field, minimum of 2 years of professional experience in compliance, risk, legal, consulting, or operations, and excellent written English skills (C2 level).

The ideal candidate will be meticulous and detail-oriented, proactive and eager to learn, and an excellent communicator, both written and verbal. You will also be collaborative and comfortable working across cultures, adaptable to changing priorities and fast-paced environments, customer-focused with a strong sense of ownership, and resourceful and able to solve problems independently.

As a member of our global, cross-functional team dedicated to supporting customer cybersecurity assessments and compliance initiatives, you will collaborate closely with legal, operations, IT, and executive management to deliver high-quality security responses and drive continuous improvement.

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Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Legal

Compensation

• $162K – $330K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

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 in the legal and compliance field, 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

As a member of our Security Legal team, you will be responsible for managing and evolving OpenAI’s sanctions compliance program, from screening architecture and workflow design to monitoring, metrics, and continuous improvement. You will operate sanctions compliance for one of the most closely watched and globally impactful technology platforms in the world, and have real ownership and the chance to build systems that scale globally as the company and our technology continues to evolve. You’ll also collaborate on adjacent trade compliance areas, including export controls and import compliance.

This role can be hybrid or remote and based in DC, SF, NY, or SEA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role you will:

• Manage sanctions compliance processes at a global scale for a frontier AI company operating across jurisdictions and products — optimizing for both internal teams and external users.

• Partner closely with cross-functional teams across Finance, Integrity, GRC, and Engineering to implement sanctions screening and controls that are deeply embedded into business workflows.

• Own compliance documentation and reporting, including policies, standards, dashboards, metrics, and escalation frameworks to enable rapid monitoring, assessment, and improvement of compliance processes

• Deeply understand and integrate systems and tools, ensuring compliance checks are seamless, reliable, and adaptable as OpenAI evolves.

• Lead ongoing reviews and risk assessments to ensure the continued effectiveness of our compliance controls and processes.

• Manage and coordinate vendors and other third parties who support OpenAI’s compliance operations.

• Assist in the development of trade compliance training materials for our cross-functional partners and business teams.

• Explore and deploy AI tools to enhance and streamline OpenAI’s trade compliance efforts.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 10+ years of experience in the trade compliance field, including developing and implementing trade compliance programs at a large, technology-focused company.

• Bring a sophisticated understanding of how US and international sanctions laws apply to multinational US companies.

• Have successfully embedded comprehensive compliance programs and incorporate compliance processes into complex business workflows without slowing innovation.

• Enjoy learning new systems and becoming the go-to expert in the systems and technical tools required for your job.

• Are highly skilled at program management, including organizing complex systems, tasks, processes, and documentation.

• Communicate in a way that builds trust with cross-functional teams, from engineers to business leaders.

• Have a strong sense of ownership, are inquisitive and enthusiastic about technology, enjoy being continually challenged, and can demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous situations.

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 and expertise that come together to make AI a reality.

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