Product Counsel, Consumer

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 a talented and versatile product counsel to support our consumer-facing AI products. As a member of the Product Counsel function, you will work cross-functionally to navigate legal and regulatory challenges, mitigate risks, and help shape the future of consumer AI. The ideal candidate will have experience advising on product development, consumer protection, and emerging technology issues.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Claude.ai and mobile app teams to provide pragmatic legal guidance on product features, user experience, and consumer-facing communications, offering risk mitigation strategies throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Develop expertise on laws and regulations specifically relevant to consumer AI products, including privacy, data protection, consumer rights, and AI-specific legislation.
• Stay current on legal and regulatory developments affecting consumer-facing AI and define principles and policies to ensure compliance while supporting innovation.
• Partner with cross-functional teams including product management, engineering, design, and marketing to identify and address legal risks in consumer products.
• Advise on consumer contracts, privacy policies, marketing materials, and other user-facing legal documents, ensuring they are compliant, user-friendly, and aligned with Anthropic's values and mission.
• Collaborate with external legal counsel, regulators, and industry groups as needed to advance understanding of consumer AI issues and advocate for responsible innovation.
• Support the broader legal team in developing company-wide strategies for navigating the evolving landscape of AI regulation and consumer protection.

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have a JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California preferred), with 5-10 years of relevant legal experience (in-house preferred) and specific expertise in IP, consumer protection, and privacy.
• Possess exceptional analytical skills, technical fluency, and the ability to navigate ambiguity, along with a broad understanding of key issues in AI, data privacy, content policy, and online safety. Familiarity with machine learning, generative models, and products is strongly preferred.
• Have a passion for developing AI that is both innovative and trustworthy, understanding the opportunities of AI to benefit society as well as the risks and limitations that must be addressed.
• Thrive in a fast-paced technology startup environment where priorities shift rapidly, and pride yourself on your adaptability and ability to pivot with speed and grace. You enjoy wearing many hats, are comfortable operating outside your areas of expertise, and have a knack for identifying and implementing efficient processes and policies.
• Are a "doer" who thrives as a member of cross-functional teams building frontier technologies. You want to develop a deep understanding of our technical teams and what we are building, and you don't hesitate to roll up your sleeves and jump in to solve difficult problems.

Strong candidates may also have:

• A growth mindset with a passion for AI's potential to positively impact the world and realistic assessment of its risks and limitations. Commitment to building trustworthy, ethical AI systems
• Superior communication abilities, with proven experience in cross-functional collaboration and consensus building.
• A track record of educating internal stakeholders, translating complex concepts, and advising on risk mitigation strategies.
• Authentic integrity and a deep understanding of the importance of ethics in business.

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. 

The expected salary range for this position is:

Annual Salary:$300,000—$300,000 USD

Logistics

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 aren't 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 you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're 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.

Compensation and Benefits*

Anthropic’s compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits. We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates.

Equity - For eligible roles, equity will be a major component of the total compensation. We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.

US Benefits -  The following benefits are for our US-based employees:

• Optional equity donation matching.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
• 401(k) plan with 4% matching.
• 22 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
• Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness.
• Fertility benefits via Carrot.
• Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
• Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.

UK Benefits -  The following benefits are for our UK-based employees:

• Optional equity donation matching.
• Private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
• Pension contribution (matching 4% of your salary).
• 21 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
• Health cash plan.
• Life insurance and income protection.
• Daily lunches and snacks in our office.

* This compensation and benefits information is based on Anthropic’s good faith estimate for this position as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. Employees based outside of the UK or US will receive a different benefits package. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors, including where you place on our internal performance ladders, which is based on factors including past work experience, relevant education, and performance on our interviews or in a work trial.

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.

Come work with us!

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.