People Legal Counsel

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 senior People Legal Counsel who will closely partner with our People team business and technical stakeholders to build and manage employment programs that enable high performers to achieve their best work. This role will take team-level ownership beyond individual projects efficiently solving complex legal problems with strategic direction from leadership and will amplify others impact through collaboration and mentorship. The ideal candidate pairs deep law firm and in-house experience at an international company with the ability to develop scalable frameworks and processes and collaborate effectively across technical and business teams in a fast-paced and fun environment.

• Partner with Legal People and Finance teams on global M&A deals
• Advise the People team and managers on a wide range of legal matters including compensation benefits performance management leaves of absence and co-employment issues
• Implement and manage compliant employment programs to create a culture of high performance and alignment to Anthropics culture values and People philosophy
• Craft clear and comprehensive written guidance policies playbooks and communications that effectively translate complex international employment law concepts into actionable frameworks for technical and business stakeholders
• Proactively identify and mitigate employment legal risks
• Amplify the team: coach and mentor key partners managers and cross-functional stakeholders building employment law fluency across the organization
• Support on demands charges and litigation; liaise and manage relationships with outside counsel
• Stay current on relevant employment laws regulations and industry trends and proactively disseminate implications to key stakeholders

• Have a JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California New York or Washington preferred)
• Have demonstrated team-level ownership youve independently owned a practice area or major workstream and built systems and frameworks others rely on
• Are humble thoughtful exercise sound judgment and operate at the highest level of integrity
• Are strategic flexible resourceful and solution-oriented you anticipate problems and build for scale
• Have strong organizational and project management skills and can drive complex multi-stakeholder workstreams with minimal oversight
• Have exceptional analytical writing and communication skills you define strategy and translate complex legal issues into actionable guidance for non-lawyers and executives alike
• Are a generous collaborator who amplifies others effectiveness
• Are curious open and willing to change your mind
• Are comfortable in a fast-paced high-volume ambiguous environment

• Have at least 10 years of practicing employment law with a combination of experience at a global-focused law firm and in-house
• Experience advising on employment legal matters across multiple jurisdictions
• Experience in a high-growth tech company or similarly fast-paced in-house environment
• A track record of building employment legal programs or playbooks that scaled with company growth

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