Description
Anthropic is seeking an experienced Legal Program Manager to join its Commercial Legal team, focused on contracts and governance. This role is central to Anthropic's compliance efforts on the commercial side: you will embed deeply in sell-side contracting processes, partner across functions, and help build the controls, workflows, and governance infrastructure that revenue-generating activities require as the company matures.
You will sit at the intersection of Legal, Finance, Revenue Operations, Sales, Partnerships, Engineering, and Accounting , ensuring that commercial contracting practices meet governance and compliance standards, with particular emphasis on revenue recognition workstreams. This is a high-visibility role where you will be expected to operate as a player-coach: managing and improving contracting processes while building scalable systems, templates, and playbooks as the function grows.
Key responsibilities:
- Partner with Commercial Legal to continuously improve the end-to-end commercial contracting lifecycle for sell-side agreements
- Partner with Finance and Accounting to ensure commercial contract terms and structures support accurate revenue recognition
- Develop and maintain contract management workflows, templates, approval matrices, and playbooks
- Build and operate contract governance controls tied to compliance requirements
- Maintain disclosure-support processes for commercial contracts
- Partner with Revenue Operations, Sales, and Engineering to design and enforce contract execution standards
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure commercial commitments are properly captured, classified, and reported
- Deploy LLM and AI tooling to scale contracting throughput and reduce manual handling
Minimum qualifications:
- At least 8–10 years of experience in legal program management, legal operations, contracts management, or commercial legal support
- Deep, practical knowledge of sell-side commercial contracting processes
- Strong ability to read, interpret, and analyze commercial contracts
- Working familiarity with revenue recognition principles (ASC 606)
- Experience building or significantly improving contracting workflows or contract lifecycle management systems
- Demonstrated ability to partner cross-functionally with Sales, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, and other business teams
- Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliver results
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Sound judgment and the ability to identify and escalate contract risks, governance gaps, and compliance issues proactively
Preferred qualifications:
- Prior experience working in a public company environment
- Experience at a high-growth technology company
- Deep cross-functional experience partnering with Accounting, Engineering, and other technical and operational teams
- Familiarity with SOX compliance requirements
- Hands-on experience with Ironclad or other CLM tools
- Professional certifications such as PMP or CPCM
The annual compensation range for this role is $220,000-$285,000 USD.