Legal Program Manager, Compute & Infrastructure

Anthropic is seeking a Legal Program Manager to serve as the operational backbone of contracting for the Compute and Infrastructure team. The successful candidate will manage a high volume of procurement and vendor agreements, build scalable contracting processes, and collaborate with business units and legal team members.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and shepherd a high volume of compute and infrastructure procurement transactions
• Own and administer the contract lifecycle management system
• Design and run intake and triage for requests
• Propose and develop scalable solutions to improve contracting efficiency
• Collaborate with business units and legal team members to streamline contract management processes
• Partner closely with various teams to achieve key business objectives
• Build reporting, dashboards, SLAs, and metrics to surface turnaround times and bottlenecks
• Deploy LLM and AI tooling to scale contracting throughput and reduce manual handling

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience operating in a fast-paced technology startup
• Initiative and autonomy in managing complex contractual matters
• Understanding of what's important in the context of a contract and the organization's mission
• Excitement to grow with an organization and help shape the culture of the commercial function
• Preference for straightforward, concise explanations over legalese
• Knack for identifying and implementing efficient processes and policies
• Ability to thrive as a member of cross-functional teams
• Comfort operating outside areas of expertise
• Hands-on experience with contract lifecycle management or legal-operations tooling
• Comfort using AI and LLM tools to streamline and scale routine contracting work

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years in contract management, legal operations, or procurement operations
• Proven ability to collaborate across various organizational levels and functions
• Working familiarity with the structure of datacenter, colocation, and lease agreements
• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
• Motivated self-starter able to multitask and juggle multiple priorities
• Authentic integrity and a deep understanding of the importance of ethics in business
• Experience implementing or administering a CLM platform (Ironclad) and standing up reporting and metrics

The annual compensation range for this role is $285,000-$340,000 USD.