Senior Counsel, Trademark

About the Team

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

About the Role

Were growing our IP team and seek an experienced attorney to lead OpenAIs global trademark litigation and disputes strategy and oversee our broader trademark and brand protection practice. You will lead complex high-stakes trademark litigation and enforcement matters around the world develop strategies to protect OpenAIs brands in a rapidly evolving technological landscape and provide practical business-oriented advice on novel trademark and brand-related issues. This role is highly cross-functional across OpenAI including work across our Legal Communications Global Affairs Marketing Product and Executive teams

This role is based in San Francisco CA. 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:

• Lead global trademark litigation and disputes including complex infringement unfair competition dilution and other brand-related litigation from initial assessment through resolution.

• Develop and execute global trademark litigation and enforcement strategies including managing outside counsel directing litigation strategy assessing risk and advising senior leadership on significant disputes.

• Lead and develop OpenAIs trademark team overseeing attorneys and legal professionals responsible for trademark clearance prosecution portfolio management enforcement dispute resolution brand protection and marketing counseling.

• Stay current on relevant laws regulations and industry trends and provide updates and legal guidance to company leadership and stakeholders.

• Build scalable processes and frameworks for trademark risk assessment enforcement prioritization outside counsel management and cross-functional decision-making.

• Provide clear practical and strategic advice to senior leadership balancing legal risks commercial priorities reputational considerations and long-term brand protection.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 10 years of leading complex trademark litigation and disputes including significant responsibility for litigation strategy case management and resolution including substantial experience at technology companies and law firms.

• Have personally developed and executed strategies for complex high-stakes trademark litigation and disputes leading matters from initial assessment through resolution including direct engagement with opposing counsel and other key stakeholders.

• Have experience developing and executing global trademark portfolio strategies including clearance prosecution enforcement and brand protection aligned with business priorities and growth.

• Communicate complex legal and business issues clearly exercise sound judgment in navigating legal uncertainty and provide practical strategic recommendations under pressure.

• Work effectively with cross-functional teams legal operations outside counsel and senior stakeholders while managing multiple urgent matters.

• Bring intellectual curiosity sound judgment a strong sense of ownership and a willingness to challenge assumptions respectfully and learn from feedback.

• Have a JD and a license or qualification to practice in California.

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.

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At OpenAI we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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