Program Specialist, M&A

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 has an ambitious mission with high stakes and tight some cases the talent we need to achieve our vision cant be accessed through traditional recruiting alone. Thats where M&A comes in and this role is what keeps it running smoothly.

Were looking for a Recruiting M&A Program Specialist to join our Talent team and coordinate the interview experience behind our acquisition hiring. Youll be a key point of contact across Corporate Development Legal People and the technical organization coordinating interviews and guiding candidates and incoming employees from first conversation through to their start date. Your work will be challenging and unique and it directly supports Anthropics efforts to remain on the frontier.

Role required to work out of the Anthropic San Francisco Office - Relocation available.

• Program manage recruiting activities across Corporate Development Legal People and technical leadership keeping everyone informed bringing solutions on what needs attention and keeping the process moving.
• Educate and enable deal sponsors and cross functional partners on standard approaches for M&A recruiting interviewing and processes.
• Operationalize the playbooks and processes that keep acquisition hiring organized and consistent and partner closely with recruiting systems and analytics to evolve the program over time.
• Scope and run the recruiting workstream for each deal from first conversation through start dates.
• Be a primary point of contact for candidates delivering a warm high-touch and discreet experience from first conversation through their start date. Make sure people going through a sensitive transition feel supported and informed at every step.
• Use AI tools (e.g. Claude) as a core part of your daily workflow as we build toward a more automated way of recruiting.
• Maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information and conversations with discretion.
• Take on other high-priority recruiting and operations projects as needed and grow within the role over time.

• 4 years of program management recruiting coordination or high-volume scheduling experience ideally including confidential executive or M&A/acquihire hiring and familiarity with modern recruiting systems
• Track record of creating documenting and educating on evolving hiring approaches - proven experience in building and developing these over time.
• A track record of delivering an excellent candidate experience and partnering closely with recruiters
• Experience with confidential or sensitive work where discretion trust and sound judgment are essential
• Strong organizational instincts and comfort creating structure in ambiguous fast-moving situations
• Comfort working efficiently with AI tools; experience with Claude
• A genuine interest in Anthropics mission and the role M&A plays in supporting it
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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.

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.