Sanctions Compliance Lead

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