# IP Counsel, Transactions

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $335,000-$385,000 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

Anthropic is seeking an experienced and strategic transactional attorney to join the IP team within its growing legal department. The successful candidate will be responsible for the IP side of Anthropic's transactions, partnering with the M&A and commercial counsel who lead each deal.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the IP workstream on acquisitions and strategic investments, from diligence through letters of intent, definitive agreements, closing, and integration, alongside M&A counsel and outside counsel.

- Partner with commercial counsel on the IP aspects of complex enterprise, partnership, research collaboration, and vendor agreements, advising on and negotiating IP terms.

- Serve as the primary point of contact on IP terms for commercial legal and other colleagues, and help train them to resolve more IP questions independently.

- Drive the playbooks, templates, and processes that enable a lean team to handle IP terms across a high volume of deals.

- Contribute to broader IP strategy, particularly where transactions intersect with open source, trade secrets, patents, or new business models.

Minimum qualifications:

- Hold a JD and be an active member of at least one U.S. state bar.

- Have substantial experience leading IP due diligence and negotiating IP terms in technology M&A.

- Have first-chair experience negotiating IP provisions in complex commercial technology agreements.

- Ability to communicate IP risks and tradeoffs clearly to business leaders and non-specialist lawyers.

- Strong working knowledge of open source licensing, employee and contractor IP assignment obligations, and trade secret protection.

Preferred qualifications:

- 10+ years of transactional IP experience at a nationally recognized law firm, a technology company, or both.

- Experience building negotiation playbooks, templates, or diligence processes.

- Experience with AI, machine learning, data licensing, or other emerging technology.

- Curiosity about AI and a commitment to its responsible development.

The annual compensation range for this role is $335,000-$385,000 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- IP due diligence
- negotiating IP terms
- technology M&A
- open source licensing
- trade secret protection

### Nice to have
- AI
- machine learning
- data licensing
- transactional IP experience

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