Head of Travel & Expense

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

As Head of Travel & Expense you will be the single owner of everything T&E at Anthropic: employee guest and executive travel policy private charter strategy our Navan and Brex platforms preferred hotel and airfare programs duty-of-care (in partnership with Security) and Board-level reporting on executive expenses. You will report to the Head of Finance Operations and lead an initial team of two with a mandate to build a best-in-class program.

This is a rare opportunity to come in as a true builderinheriting solid operational foundations and a Claude-first culture pioneering AI-powered automation across Financeand architect a T&E program worthy of a company shaping the future of AI.

Responsibilities:

Strategy Policy & Governance

• Design and own Anthropics multi-year T&E strategy evolving the function from operationally sound to best-in-class across policy cost management employee experience and compliance
• Build and maintain a comprehensive global T&E policy frameworkemployee executive and internationalembedding controls directly in systems to drive compliance at the point of booking
• Lead a cross-functional T&E governance structure with Finance Security Legal HR and Executive Assistants
• Design and enforce jurisdiction-specific T&E policy frameworks for international entities (EMEA APAC) incorporating local per diem regulations VAT reclaim eligibility and country-level receipt/documentation requirements

Vendor Negotiations & Savings

• Own the corporate travel supplier program driving material savings through hotel RFPs airline corporate agreements and preferred rate programs
• Manage strategic relationships with our T&E travel and expense systems serving as the primary business contact for contract negotiations product roadmap discussions and AI feature development
• Track and report savings performance to Finance leadership and executives

Executive Travel & Compliance

• Serve as the subject matter expert for all executive travel needs vendor selection and utilization governance
• Partner with Legal and Finance on executive travel tax implications business purpose documentation and audit-ready recordkeeping

Platform & AI Automation (Claudification)

• Own and optimize Anthropics T&E-related systems and platforms: configuration policy rules approval workflows virtual cards and ERP integrations
• Champion AI-powered automation across T&Edeploying Claude to audit transactions flag policy exceptions and automate reportingconsistent with Anthropics Claude-first culture

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 12 years of T&E / corporate travel experience at a high-growth technology company including 7 years in a leadership or program ownership role with direct reports
• Demonstrated track record of cost savings: material quantified outcomes from hotel RFPs airline corporate agreements and travel supplier negotiations
• Deep platform expertise in Navan and/or comparable TMC platforms plus Brex or equivalent expense management tools
• Executive travel program ownership
• Strong cross-functional instincts: proven ability to partner across Security Legal HR Finance and C-suite executive teams and their supporting staff
• Duty-of-care and international compliance: background in travel risk management frameworks and T&E compliance across global entities (EMEA APAC LATAM)
• AI-curious builder mindset: experience deploying AI tools to automate T&E processes or genuine enthusiasm for doing soand comfort creating structure where none exists

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education training and/or experience

Required field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework training or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you some cases we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money fees or banking information before your first day. If youre ever unsure about a communication dont click any linksvisit for confirmed position openings.

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