Commercial Counsel, Platform & Marketplace

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.

As Commercial Counsel for Platform & Marketplace at Anthropic youll support scaling up go-to-market motions and platforms like the Claude Marketplace which lets enterprise customers discover buy and pay for third-party applications. Youll be the trusted legal partner to Business Development teams within Anthropics Partnerships & Alliances org shaping how we collaborate with sellers and customers on existing and future platforms. Youll not only focus on how we interact with our own resale channels but also on how we participate in third-party marketplaces. Well count on you to own negotiate and continuously improve the core contracting vehicles for these go-to-market programs as well as supporting terms that sit between sellers and buyers.

• Own end-to-end legal strategy and execution for certain partnership ecosystems and contracting programs
• Serve as one of the legal partners to our Partnerships & Alliances business team functioning as a strategic advisor embedded in partnership planning
• Independently lead complex multi-party negotiations involving technical integrations revenue-sharing arrangements joint go-to-market strategies and strategic commitments that may implicate other Anthropic business relationships
• Architect scalable partnership frameworks templates and programs that enable the broader organization to execute deals efficiently while maintaining appropriate risk controls
• Provide strategic counsel on partnership structures that balances legal risk management with aggressive growth objectives
• Coordinate cross-functionally with Compute Strategic Pursuits Finance and GTM teams on deals where partnership terms interact with other commercial relationships and commitments

• JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California preferred)
• Demonstrated track record of independently leading complex multi-stakeholder negotiations with major technology companies that resulted in successful partnership launches including situations where Anthropics interests must be balanced against partners and end customers simultaneously
• Experience serving as the go-to legal partner for a partnerships or business development organization; the attorney that business leaders actively want in strategy sessions
• Deep understanding of partnership economics: how deal registration works why revenue attribution matters to partners how to structure incentives that align interests and what motivates a partner to prioritize one vendor over another
• Superior judgment in risk assessment and strategic tradeoffs with the confidence to recommend which partnerships to pursue which terms are worth fighting for and when to walk away
• Outstanding communication skills with executive presence; youre comfortable presenting partnership strategy to senior leadership and negotiating directly with partner General Counsels
• Track record of mentoring and elevating other attorneys whether through formal reporting relationships or informal guidance
• Genuine intellectual curiosity about AI technology and comfort with ambiguity; you thrive in environments where youre building the playbook

• At least 8 years of relevant legal experience with at least 4 years of substantial focus on technology partnerships channel programs and strategic alliances where youve been the lawyer executing partnership strategy and driving hands-on deal negotiation
• Direct experience as commercial counsel at high-growth technology companies during scaling phases where partnerships are central to the GTM model
• Background negotiating with and managing relationships with major hyperscalers and systems integrators
• Familiarity with complex revenue-sharing arrangements marketplace agreements and co-sell programs where multiple parties share economics
• Experience with emerging technology partnerships (AI/ML cloud infrastructure developer platforms) where legal frameworks are still evolving and youve helped define industry norms
• Prior involvement in deals where partnership terms created constraints or opportunities for other business relationships including managing a counterparty who is simultaneously a partner supplier and sometimes competitor

Role-specific policy: For this role we expect staff to be able to work from our San Francisco Seattle Washington D.C. 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.

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.