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About the Team OpenAI's Legal team plays a crucial role in furthering OpenAI's mission by tackling innovative, fundamental legal issues in AI. The team comprises professionals from diverse fields, including technology, AI, privacy, IP, employment, tax law, regulatory, litigation, and corporate. About the Role OpenAI is seeking an experienced Paralegal to join the Corporate Legal team. This role will play an integral part in supporting the governance and compliance of OpenAI's U.S. and international subsidiaries and strengthening our global entity management program. The ideal candidate brings proven experience, independence, and judgment in handling multi-jurisdictional corporate work, while thriving in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. We\'re a small and cohesive team supporting a rapidly growing organization, so you\'ll cover a lot of ground. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. In this role, you will be responsible for: Support routine and complex corporate governance across OpenAI's global subsidiaries, including board meetings, officer appointments, annual returns, statutory registers, and other filings and corporate records. Draft, review, and finalize corporate documents, such as board resolutions, certificates, consents, appointment letters, and limited powers of attorney. Evaluate, scope, and form new international subsidiaries. Manage and maintain OpenAI's global entity management platform. Support global KYC, UBO, and regulatory compliance processes with financial institutions, regulators, and external counsel. Support execution logistics, including signature collection, notarization, and legalization of documents across multiple jurisdictions. Serve as a corporate paralegal liaison with cross-functional teams (tax, finance, treasury, accounting, regulatory, employment and commercial legal) to support restructurings, capital needs, inter-company agreements, international compliance, and strategic transactions. Identify areas to improve our existing processes with AI, and generally improve leverage across the team. Provide project management and cross-functional coordination for special projects. You might thrive in this role if you have: Bachelor\'s degree 6+ years of corporate paralegal experience with a mix of in-house technology company and major law firm roles Strong working knowledge of corporate governance, subsidiary management, entity compliance (U.S. and international), KYC/UBO, regulatory filings, corporate record keeping, and secretary\'s office functions Demonstrated ability to independently manage various work streams and time-sensitive projects across multiple jurisdictions Exceptional drafting, organizational, and communication skills and attention to detail Proficiency with entity management software (e.g., hCue, Diligent, GEMS) Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional partners at all levels of the organization Strong work ethic, commitment and sense of ownership; enjoy being continually challenged; able to effectively prioritize and adapt in a changing environment 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. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. 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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