# Sanctions Compliance Lead

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $270,000-$345,000 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

Anthropic's Integrity & Compliance (I&C) function is building the systems that let us scale responsibly as our products reach more people, more enterprises, and more regulated industries. As Sanctions Compliance Lead, you will take day-to-day leadership of Anthropic's sanctions compliance program and support oversight of our export controls program.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead Anthropic's sanctions compliance program, including strategy, risk appetite, policy frameworks, and the program roadmap

- Represent the sanctions and export controls function with senior leadership and cross-functional partners

- Continuously assess sanctions risk across products, channels, and markets, and own the remediation of identified issues and the delivery of program enhancements

- Direct regulator-facing matters, including voluntary self-disclosures, blocking and reject reports, licensing questions, and responses to regulator or third-party inquiries

- Govern Anthropic's restricted-party screening and enforcement controls

- Serve as the senior escalation point for complex sanctions matters

- Advise business and product teams on sanctions and trade controls implications of commercial and geographic expansion

- Support oversight of the export controls program

- Prepare and deliver program reporting on health, key risks, and emerging issues

- Monitor sanctions regulatory developments and enforcement actions, assess impact on Anthropic, and drive required program changes

- Lead, mentor, and develop compliance team members

Minimum qualifications:

- Substantive, hands-on experience leading an economic sanctions compliance program

- Experience managing voluntary self-disclosures, blocking or reject reports, and other regulator filings end to end

- Experience assessing sanctions risk on an ongoing basis and owning the remediation of identified issues and delivery of program enhancements

- Experience governing a restricted-party screening program

- A track record of reporting on program health and risk to senior leadership, an audit committee, or a board

- Working knowledge of US export controls

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred qualifications:

- 10+ years of relevant experience in economic sanctions compliance

- Experience managing and developing compliance professionals

- Experience conducting sanctions diligence for acquisitions, vendors, and third parties

- Exposure to sanctions compliance in software, cloud, fintech, or AI contexts

## Skills

### Required
- economic sanctions compliance
- export controls
- risk governance
- restricted-party screening
- regulatory compliance

### Nice to have
- sanctions compliance in software
- cloud
- fintech
- AI
- compliance management
- trade controls

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