Description
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
Minimum qualifications
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar
- Substantial experience practicing employment law, with a blend of law firm and in-house experience
- Demonstrated ability to provide clear, practical legal guidance to non-lawyers on complex employment matters
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and manage multiple matters concurrently
- Sound judgment, high integrity, and a collaborative, solutions-oriented approach
Preferred qualifications
- Active membership in the California or New York state bar
- 7+ years of employment law experience
- Experience at a technology company or other fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Experience advising on international employment legal matters
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and building programs and processes from the ground up
Role-specific policy
For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our New York or DC office at least 3 days a week, though we encourage you to apply even if you might need some flexibility for an interim period of time.
Logistics
- Minimum education: Bachelor's 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 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.
Benefits
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.
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.
Come work with us!
If you're excited about the opportunity to join our team and contribute to the development of reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, please submit your application.