Employment Counsel

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 to support Anthropic's growing global workforce. As the second employment attorney at Anthropic, you 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 US and international employment law experience, with the ability to develop scalable processes and collaborate effectively across technical and business teams in a fast-paced and fun environment.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a trusted advisor to the People team and managers on a wide range of U.S. and global matters, including compensation, benefits, performance management, leaves of absence, and contingent worker issues 
• Develop, implement and manage compliant employment programs and practices and help to guide our employment legal strategy and 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, and industry trends, and disseminate these developments and implications for Anthropic’s mission and business to key stakeholders 

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 preferred)
• Have 7+ years of practicing employment law at a global-focused law firm or in-house
• Are humble, thoughtful, exercise sound judgment and operate at the highest level of integrity 
• Are strategic, flexible, resourceful, and solution-oriented 
• Have strong organizational and project management skills, and are able to prioritize and execute on tasks
• Have exceptional analytical, writing, and communication skills. You understand how to succinctly and effectively communicate legal issues to non-lawyers

Strong candidates may also have:

• In-house or similar experience at a global law firm
• Experience in a tech company or other fast-paced environment

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

The expected salary range for this position is:

Annual Salary:$240,000—$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.

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.