Corporate Compliance Officer

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

Anthropics Integrity & Compliance (I&C) function is building the systems that let us scale responsibly as our products reach more people more enterprises and more regulated industries. Our global compliance program is bespoke reflecting our unique mission and position as one of the leading AI labs operating on the frontier.

Our Corporate Compliance program comprises a key pillar of our overall Integrity and Compliance function and covers a range of compliance domain areas including anti-bribery anti-corruption employee conduct and third party management.

As a member of the Corporate Compliance team youll be a core driver of a small high-leverage team enhancing and executing on Anthropics Corporate Compliance program. This is a generalist seat anchored by deep anti-bribery/anti-corruption expertise. Youll roll up your sleeves across the full Corporate Compliance remit third-party risk gifts & hospitality conflicts of interest outside business activities the Code of Conduct speak-up matters and internal investigations and be a subject-matter expert the business looks to on ABAC: setting the standards for third-party risk management advising on government interactions and high-risk hospitality and supporting Legal on compliance terms in commercial agreements. Youll also be a thought partner on how we use AI to run a modern compliance function.

This is a builders role at a company that takes integrity seriously and moves fast. Were looking for a pragmatic solution-oriented problem-solver who operates comfortably in grey areas brings a beginners mind to the job and holds the line clearly and credibly where it matters. Youll work directly with legal policy partnerships and go-to-market teams across multiple regions exercise independent judgment on novel questions and help design the frameworks that enable Anthropic to scale responsibly.

Key responsibilities

• Advise business teams on government-official interactions gifts and hospitality third-party risk and related FCPA / UK Bribery Act / local-law questions

• Support Legal on anti-corruption conflict-of-interest and related compliance terms in commercial agreements

• Review and disposition conflicts of interest outside business activity requests and gifts & hospitality matters including escalations and edge cases

• Serve as an ABAC subject-matter expert to the owner of the third-party risk management framework advising on risk tiering screening standards ongoing monitoring and escalation paths

• Conduct and support internal investigations into compliance matters including running discrete matters end-to-end as first chair

• Develop policies guidance and training; partner across the business on cross-functional compliance topics

• Help design and supervise AI-assisted compliance workflows (screening intake triage diligence drafting) bringing judgment to what gets automated and what stays human

Minimum qualifications

• Substantial depth in anti-corruption / FCPA / third-party risk gained in-house at a law firm white-collar/compliance practice and/or in government (DOJ SEC SFO or similar)

• Hands-on experience running or overseeing third-party due diligence end to end: scoping screening/adverse media questionnaires risk analysis and mitigation

• Experience conducting internal investigations scoping evidence collection and review witness interviews findings memos and remediation recommendations

• Experience advising Legal and deal teams on anti-corruption and related compliance terms and risks in commercial agreements

• Clear practical writing and the ability to give business-usable advice

• Sound independent judgment in ambiguous fast-moving situations knowing when to align when to push and when to escalate

Preferred qualifications

• 7 years of relevant experience

• Range across the broader corporate compliance portfolio (Gifts & Hospitality Conflicts Outside Business Activities Code of Conduct speak-up) and the curiosity to learn what you havent done yet

• High EQ reads rooms and relationships well and earns trust quickly across stakeholders

• Genuine interest in using AI tools to do compliance work better

• Experience standing up or maturing a compliance program at a high-growth or technology company

• International experience advising on market entry partner/reseller programs or government engagement outside the U.S.

• Significant first-chair internal investigations experience including privileged investigations and presenting findings to senior leadership or a board/audit committee

• Familiarity with sanctions/export political-law or human-rights/supply-chain risk management (adjacent areas this role will touch)

Role-specific policy: For this role we expect staff to be able to work from either our Washington DC San Francisco or New York City 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

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