# Product Counsel, Claude Platform

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $265,000-$320,000 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

As Product Counsel for the Claude Platform, you will be the dedicated legal partner for Anthropic's Developer Platform and API, the Model Context Protocol and developer ecosystem, the Agent API and Managed Agents, third-party cloud distribution (such as Amazon Bedrock and Google Vertex), tiered-access and trust-and-safety programs, identity verification, and Skills marketplace licensing.\n\nYou will tackle novel legal questions at the intersection of developer tooling, enterprise readiness, and cloud-partner distribution, and help establish the terms, policies, and frameworks that let developers build safely on Claude.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\nPartner with Platform PM, API Engineering, Cloud Partnerships, and Commercial Legal to provide pragmatic legal guidance across the API, developer ecosystem, and cloud-distribution product lifecycle\n\nDraft and negotiate developer-facing terms (API ToS, acceptable-use policies, developer agreements), cloud-partner distribution terms, and enterprise order-form exhibits, collaborating with Commercial Legal on co-sell mechanics\n\nAdvise on API product features, tiered-access programs (TAP/ZDR), KYC/IDV requirements, and Cowork enterprise-readiness initiatives, balancing velocity with legal and contractual compliance\n\nSupport incident response and escalations related to API misuse, developer policy violations, and cloud-partner compliance issues\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have:\n\nA JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar\n\nAt least 8 years of relevant legal experience, with meaningful experience in API/platform, cloud-marketplace, or tech-transactions work, either in-house at a technology company or at a law firm with a strong technology practice\n\nWorking knowledge of legal frameworks relevant to developer platforms and B2B AI products, such as data-processing agreements, API/developer terms, cloud-distribution licensing, and emerging AI governance frameworks\n\nStrong technical fluency across cloud computing, APIs, and software development, with ability to quickly grasp AI/ML infrastructure concepts\n\nExperience thriving in fast-paced environments, with comfort navigating ambiguity and pivoting quickly as priorities shift\n\nA proactive "doer" mindset with ability to identify problems, propose solutions, and execute with minimal supervision\n\nUsed AI tools to scale your legal practice or a strong interest in learning to do so\n\nExceptional communication skills to translate complex legal concepts for non-lawyer audiences\n\nEmpathy and strong service orientation, with the ability to listen actively and help achieve organizational goals\n\n\nStrong candidates may have:\n\nIn-house platform or API counsel experience at a cloud/SaaS company\n\nExperience structuring developer terms, marketplace licensing, or enterprise data-processing agreements\n\nExperience with cloud-marketplace distribution (e.g., AWS Marketplace / Bedrock, GCP / Vertex, Azure) or developer-platform go-to-market, including order-form mechanics and co-sell structures\n\n\nApplication Deadline: 4pm PT on May 4, 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.\n\nRole-specific policy: For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco or New York 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.\n\nThe annual compensation range for this role is listed below.\n\nFor 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.\n\nAnnual Salary: $265,000-$320,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- JD from an accredited law school
- Active membership in at least one U.S. state bar
- Relevant legal experience in API/platform, cloud-marketplace, or tech-transactions work
- Working knowledge of legal frameworks relevant to developer platforms and B2B AI products
- Strong technical fluency across cloud computing, APIs, and software development

### Nice to have
- AI tools to scale legal practice
- Exceptional communication skills
- Empathy and strong service orientation