About Anthropic
- Anthropic’s 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:
- Anthropic is seeking an exceptional Employment 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. The ideal candidate pairs law firm and in-house experience, with the ability to develop scalable processes and collaborate effectively across technical and business teams in a fast-paced and fun environment.
Responsibilities:
- Advise the People team and managers on a wide range of U.S. legal matters, including compensation, benefits, performance management, leaves of absences, and contingent worker issues
- Implement and manage compliant employment programs to create a culture of high performance, and alignment to Anthropic’s values and People philosophy
- Craft clear and comprehensive written guidance, policies, and communications that effectively translate complex employment law concepts into actionable frameworks for technical and business stakeholders across the organization
- Leverage your experience to proactively identify and mitigate employment legal risks
- Liaise and manage relationships with outside counsel, as necessary
- Stay up to date on relevant employment laws, regulations, industry trends, and disseminate to key stakeholders these developments and their implications to Anthropic’s mission and business
You may be a good fit if you have:
- A JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California or New York preferred)
- At least 8 years of practicing employment law with a combination of experience at a global focused law firm and in-house
- Humility, thoughtfulness, and can exercise sound judgment and operate at the highest level of integrity
- The ability to be strategic, flexible, resourceful and solution-oriented
- Strong organizational and project management skills, and are able to prioritize and execute on tasks
- Exceptional analytical and writing and communication skills. You understand how to succinctly and effectively communicate legal issues to non-lawyers
- Curiosity, openness, and willingness to change your mind
- Comfort in a fast-paced, high-volume, ambiguous environment
Strong candidates may have:
- Experience in a tech company or other fast-paced environment
- Experience advising on international employment legal matters
Application Deadline: 4pm PT on March 6, 2026. Applications will be reviewed after the deadline, and our hiring team plans to begin contacting potential candidates shortly after. We encourage all interested and qualified applicants to submit their materials before this date to ensure full consideration
- The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
- For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
How we're 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. We're 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.
