Commercial Counsel, APAC

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.

Anthropic is seeking an exceptional Commercial Counsel to join our growing Commercial Legal team as our founding commercial legal hire in Singapore. Youll serve as a strategic partner to our sales teams leading complex negotiations and commercial deals that fuel our expansion with companies and organisations across the region from startups to large enterprises. Youll guide sophisticated technology transactions across diverse industries and client sizes while advising on the legal and regulatory considerations unique to responsible AI deployment throughout APAC.

As one of our first commercial legal hires based in the region youll help establish Anthropics legal foundation across Southeast Asia and the wider APAC region designing the processes playbooks and frameworks that scale with us.

• Serve as a key strategic advisor to sales leadership on complex commercial deals and contractual matters from small and medium enterprises to large enterprise clients

• Lead negotiations and close sophisticated agreements with diverse APAC companies and organisations across multiple industries and market segments

• Navigate APAC regulatory compliance requirements and jurisdiction-specific contracting considerations across multiple markets

• Design and implement scalable contract frameworks playbooks and processes to support our fast-growing APAC sales organisation

• Identify analyse and proactively manage complex legal and regulatory risks while maintaining deal velocity in our rapidly evolving AI landscape

• Anticipate emerging legal developments affecting AI technologies across APAC jurisdictions and provide strategic guidance to cross-functional leadership

• Foster relationships with external stakeholders including clients of all sizes regulatory bodies and industry partners across the APAC region

• Qualified to practise law in Singapore or another common-law jurisdiction

• Deep expertise in complex technology agreements and regulatory compliance frameworks including those relevant to the adoption of emerging technologies across APAC markets

• Strong business judgment and ability to balance legal risk with commercial objectives in fast-moving deal environments

• Demonstrated ability to navigate novel legal challenges with limited precedent in cutting-edge technology applications

• Clear effective communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders across seniority levels and organisational functions

• A collaborative solutions-oriented approach to supporting high-velocity sales processes across diverse market segments

• Strong understanding of AI technology trends and commitment to responsible AI deployment

• At least 10-12 years of experience in relevant legal roles supporting commercial transactions across diverse client segments and industries

• In-house experience at a technology company with APAC operations

• Previous exposure to AI machine learning or other emerging technologies in commercial or regulatory contexts

• Experience supporting sales teams across diverse client segments in deal negotiations and client relationship management

• Multi-jurisdictional experience across APAC markets

• Comfort operating in fast-paced ambiguous environments with shifting priorities

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.

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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.

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 policy for using AI in our application process.