Deputy General Counsel, Commercial (Marketing)

OpenAI
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 441,000 - 490,000 annuallyFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 15+ yearsSkills: ["Business judgment","Cross-functional relationship building","Clear communication","Ownership","Intellectual curiosity"]

Serve as the commercial legal lead for Marketing, partnering with brand, creative, and regional teams to support high-impact campaigns, creative production, and talent/creator relationships. Draft and negotiate complex marketing, entertainment, sponsorship, and technology transactions, advising on rights, disclosures, endorsements, and launches. Lead matters from intake through signature, and build scalable templates, playbooks, and workflows while staying current on evolving advertising, consumer-protection, privacy, and AI-transparency requirements.

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Deputy General Counsel, Commercial (Marketing)

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Job Summary

Serve as the commercial legal lead for Marketing, partnering with brand, creative, and regional teams to support high-impact campaigns, creative production, and talent/creator relationships. Draft and negotiate complex marketing, entertainment, sponsorship, and technology transactions, advising on rights, disclosures, endorsements, and launches. Lead matters from intake through signature, and build scalable templates, playbooks, and workflows while staying current on evolving advertising, consumer-protection, privacy, and AI-transparency requirements.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • ā€¢Serve as the commercial legal lead for Marketing, partnering with Brand, Creative, Product Marketing, Design, Film and Photo, Performance Marketing, Partner Marketing, Communications, and regional teams through launch.
  • ā€¢Draft and negotiate marketing and entertainment agreements, including agency, production, talent and creator, sponsorship, event, media, content-licensing, marketing-technology, and vendor agreements.
  • ā€¢Structure campaign and content rights, including talent and appearance releases, publicity and likeness rights, user-generated content, copyright and trademark permissions, and multi-channel media use.
  • ā€¢Provide fast, practical counseling on campaign execution, public claims and disclosures, endorsements, promotions, social and paid media, coordinating with specialist counsel when needed.
  • ā€¢Manage matters end-to-end (intake, vendor onboarding, review, approval, signature, launch) and develop scalable templates, playbooks, training, and workflows to enable self-service for routine work.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 441,000 - 490,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Relocation

Key Requirements

  • ā€¢15+ years of relevant legal experience across in-house and technology, media, entertainment, or advertising-focused law firm roles.
  • ā€¢Deep experience drafting and negotiating complex marketing, advertising, entertainment, production, sponsorship, talent, creator, content-licensing, and technology transactions.
  • ā€¢Understand advertising and consumer-protection law, endorsements and promotions, and IP/content rights, publicity, and privacy issues.
  • ā€¢Have led legal support for fast-moving, high-visibility campaigns and launches with practical decision-making under compressed timelines.
  • ā€¢Comfort independently leading a complex legal workstream and turning recurring issues into scalable templates, guardrails, and processes.
Experience:15+ yearsTechnologyMediaEntertainmentAdvertisingIn-houseContent-licensingAIPrivacy
Skills:Business judgmentCross-functional relationship buildingClear communicationOwnershipIntellectual curiosity

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALLĀ·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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