This role involves assisting the team on responses to RFIs, regulatory investigations, and government enforcement actions outside the United States.

Key responsibilities include supporting global efforts to respond to RFIs, regulatory investigations, and government enforcement actions, coordinating with business functions and other members of the legal team, interacting with government regulators internationally, and aggressively managing outside counsel spend.

The ideal candidate will have 5-9 years of post-qualified experience, including strong litigation and/or contentious regulatory experience.

Experience with social media industry regulations is a plus but not required.

As a member of our team, you will be expected to have strong strategic thinking, attention to detail, organisational skills, and the ability to build good relationships with internal clients.

Work ethic and strong prioritisation skills are also essential.

All employees are expected to have strong communication skills, being able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.

If you appreciate challenging yourself and thrive on curiosity, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

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Location

Tokyo, Japan

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Legal

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, competition, corporate, employment, tax law, regulatory, and litigation.

About the Role

We’re seeking an Associate General Counsel to help navigate the increasing AI legislative and regulatory landscape in Japan and the broader Asia Pacific region. We’re looking for a legal self-starter, who is comfortable jumping into a deep dive of laws applicable to AI, as well as a broad range of AI regulatory issues that will help shape AI policy going forward and for which there is little precedent. This role reports to our Head of Legal, APAC.

This role is based in Tokyo.

In this role, you will:

• Analyze laws and regulations in Japan and APAC concerning AI to understand their impact on OpenAI and the broader AI community.

• Develop policy positions on pending legislation.

• Provide legal analysis and advice to the Global Affairs team and other internal stakeholders.

• Contribute to our ongoing improvements to AI governance as regulations come into force.

• Monitor and keep the team updated on emerging legislative and regulatory developments related to AI in Japan.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 12+ years of legal experience.

• Strong leadership and ability to influence.

• Combination of an in-house company, government/institution, or law firm experience.

• Strong background in technology laws.

• Experience and familiarity with AI or a demonstrated interest in AI laws and regulations.

• Knowledge and experience with intellectual property laws.

• Create clear and concise written and verbal communication, distilling complex concepts into simple, explainable, and persuasive ideas.

• Experience analyzing complex legislation.

• Cross-border experience, particularly in the countries in the APAC region.

• Experience engaging with regulators and/or policymakers.

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.

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