Corporate Legal Specialist

Corporate Legal Specialist

San Francisco, CA

About Anthropic

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Corporate Legal Specialist to join Anthropic's Corporate Legal team. In this role, you will be a key partner to our team as well as cross-functional partners, supporting entity and board management, governance, and corporate transactions across Anthropic's growing portfolio of U.S. and international entities. This role is well-suited for someone who thrives in a fast-moving, high volume environment; enjoys building and developing procedures and processes; and is comfortable navigating the complexity of a rapidly scaling company.

You will work closely with colleagues across Legal, Finance, Tax, People, and external counsel to ensure Anthropic's corporate records, filings, and governance practices are accurate, comprehensive, timely, and audit-ready.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full lifecycle of U.S. entity administration, including formations, qualifications, dissolutions, annual reports, assist with franchise tax filings, and obtain certificates of good standing, certified copies and coordinate notarizations and apostilles.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date corporate records for Anthropic PBC and its subsidiaries, including minute books, stock ledgers, org. charts, officer/director lists, and entity management databases.
• Support board and shareholder governance matters, including organizing directors, officers and/or authorized signatories' appointments and resignations, preparing board and shareholder meeting materials, drafting resolutions, written consents, secretary's certificates, and incumbency certificates.
• Assist with new entity incorporations and structuring, including domestic and international subsidiary formations and post-incorporation operational matters (i.e. opening of bank accounts, obtaining tax registrations, injection of capitalizations, etc.), in coordination with outside counsel and cross functional teams. Also, will help with entity dissolutions, mergers, and post-integration of acquired entities.
• Support Anthropic's international entities with board and shareholder meetings, corporate maintenance, local filings, KYC requests, apostilles, legalizations, and cross-border documentation.
• Coordinate signatory authority, powers of attorney, and corporate approvals for commercial, financing, real estate, and employment matters.
• Respond to diligence requests in connection with financings, acquisitions, audits, commercial transactions, and regulatory inquiries.
• Be able to assist with in-house notarizations (if licensed as a State of California Notary Public).
• Own and continuously improve entity management tools, workflows, and internal knowledge resources; help build scalable processes as Anthropic's footprint grows.
• Partner with cross-functional teams on matters including equity administration, tax, compliance, insurance, and trademark/IP record maintenance.

Minimum Qualifications

• Have at least 8 years of relevant experience in a paralegal role in a corporate legal department or a law firm.
• Have proven expertise in U.S. entity management and corporate administrative and compliance work; international entity management experience is preferred.
• Have strong experience with entity structuring – incorporations, dissolutions, mergers, and restructurings – including related post-closing work.
• Are highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage a high volume of simultaneous matters without losing accuracy.
• Are a proactive self-starter who can operate independently, spot issues, and drive work to completion with minimal oversight.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills and can work effectively with attorneys, executives, external counsel, and cross-functional partners.
• Are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift and processes are still being built.
• Have high judgment around confidentiality and sensitive corporate information.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting international entity management, including formations, governance, and annual maintenance across EMEA, APAC and LATAM jurisdictions.
• Experience at a venture-backed technology company, including supporting equity financings, secondary transactions, or IPO readiness.
• Familiarity with entity and contract management platforms (e.g., Diligent Entities and Ironclad) and board portals.
• Experience coordinating with outside counsel and vendors across multiple jurisdictions.
• An ABA Paralegal certificate.
• A valid State of California Notary Public License, or an interest in obtaining one.

Role-specific policy: For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco office at least 3 days a week, though we encourage you to apply even if you might need some flexibility for an interim period of time.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$170,000 - $220,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team. Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

How We're Different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come Work With Us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.