Discovery Operations Lead, Litigation & Regulatory

Anthropic's legal team operates at the frontier of some of the most consequential legal and regulatory questions of our time. As we scale, the volume and complexity of our discovery and information governance obligations are growing rapidly. We are looking for a Discovery Operations Lead to join our Litigation and Regulatory team and build out Anthropic's discovery operations from the ground up, support active matters, and help drive information governance maturation.

The right person for this role will be equal parts technical operator and strategic thinker. You will help write the playbook for a first-in-class discovery and information governance program.

Key responsibilities:

• Design and operate discovery operations across the full EDRM lifecycle
• Own the operational design and execution of the legal hold program
• Stand up and administer the discovery technology stack RelativityOne
• Design and document standard operating procedures and playbooks
• Operate the discovery vendor program
• Serve as a primary day-to-day point of contact between in-house counsel, outside counsel, vendors, and internal technical teams
• Partner with Security, IT, and product engineering to support Anthropic's data landscape
• Develop and operate the operational layer of Anthropic's information governance program
• Build the program's measurement and reporting
• Integrate AI and automation into the EDRM lifecycle
• Support active litigation, government investigations, and regulatory inquiries
• Design and build internal tools to streamline and manage critical discovery workflows

Minimum qualifications:

• Hands-on discovery experience across the full EDRM lifecycle
• A track record of founding or rebuilding discovery operations functions
• Working knowledge of major discovery platforms
• Strong understanding of the Federal Rules on discovery and evidence
• Experience operating discovery across modern enterprise data sources
• Experience designing and running discovery vendor programs
• Strong project management instincts
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical discovery and operational concepts clearly

Preferred qualifications:

• 8+ years of hands-on discovery experience across the full EDRM lifecycle
• Experience standing up discovery operations at a young and/or fast-scaling company
• Experience embedding with engineering or product teams to define discovery and information governance requirements
• Hands-on integration of generative AI and agentic workflows
• Technical fluency working with engineering teams and modern infrastructure
• Experience operating information governance programs at scale
• Experience managing significant discovery operating budgets and vendor portfolios