Contracts Manager

About Anthropic

Anthropics mission is to create reliable interpretable and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers engineers policy experts and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

Anthropic is seeking an exceptional Contracts Manager to support commercial and technology transactions. Well rely on you to help review draft and negotiate commercial and procurement contracts to support our cutting-edge AI systems. Youll also build scalable contracting processes and collaborate across Product Sales Finance Business Operations Research and Procurement teams.

Responsibilities:

• Draft analyze negotiate and complete complex commercial transactions with the companys enterprise customers vendors and strategic partners including IP licensing agreements
• Propose and develop scalable solutions to improve contracting efficiency
• Collaborate with business units and legal team members to streamline contract management processes identify potential risks and drive continuous improvement in contract handling efficiency
• Collaborate with the Product Sales Business Operations Research and Procurement teams to achieve key business objectives and deliver strategic business-minded and solutions-focused counsel
• As a relatively small legal team supporting big things each legal team member practices across multiple areas. Wed love to hear where else youd be interested to pitch in whether as a function of your experience or interests

You might be a good fit if you have:

• At least 5 years of related contract management experience with at least 3 years of experience supporting technology transactions sales organizations or partnerships
• Experience operating in a fast-paced technology startup in which priorities shift rapidly and schedules move to the left thriving in this dynamic environment and priding yourself on your adaptability and ability to pivot with speed and grace
• Initiative and autonomy in managing complex contractual matters effectively prioritizing competing deadlines
• An understanding of whats important in the context of a contract the organizations mission when to be flexible and when to draw a hard line
• Excitement to grow with an organization and help shape the culture of the commercial function
• A preference for straightforward concise explanations over legalese and overwrought drafting
• A knack for identifying and implementing efficient processes and policies
• The ability to thrive as a member of cross-functional teams building frontier technologies with a desire to develop a deep understanding of our technical teams and what we are building
• Comfort operating outside your areas of expertise and in uncharted legal territory
• A doer mentality willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done as a team player who doesnt hesitate to jump in to do work that needs to get done whether glamorous or not

Strong candidates may have:

• Proven ability to collaborate across various organizational levels and functions to facilitate efficient contracting processes and execution while building strong relationships
• Substantive knowledge of software agreements reseller agreements services agreements strategic partnerships and general contract terms
• Excellent verbal and written communication analytical collaboration and interpersonal skills
• Strong self-motivation and ability to multitask and juggle multiple priorities in a dynamic environment
• Authentic integrity and a deep understanding of the importance of ethics in business

Role-specific policy: For this role we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco or New York office at least 3 days a week though we encourage you to apply even if you might need some flexibility for an interim period of time.

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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How were different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our long-term goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT-3 Circuit-Based Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policyfor using AI in our application process