Employee Relations & Investigations Partner

Employee Relations & Investigations Partner

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA

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

As an Employee Relations Partner at Anthropic, you will play a critical role in fostering a workplace culture that enables our teams to do their best work while ensuring fairness, compliance, and alignment with our mission to build safe, transformative AI systems. You will be responsible for working with current ER staff to continue building and refining Anthropic's ER function, serving as a subject matter expert on complex investigations, performance management issues, and other employee relations matters globally. You will be the SME for ER projects as needed, working with internal stakeholders and ER team members to build and operationalize scalable and compliant processes and documentation.

This role requires balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution as you will be the primary ER Partner for specific business groups, and serve as a partner for iRisk, Security and Compliance investigations. You'll help this newly formed team design scalable ER processes and policies that span multiple regions. You'll partner closely with People Partners, Employment Legal, and cross-functional teams to navigate sensitive employee matters with care, integrity, and sound judgment. As we continue to scale rapidly, you'll help build the foundations of an ER function that can grow with the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Workplace Investigations: You and the ER team will own Anthropic's overall approach to workplace investigations. Conduct complex, high-stakes investigations personally while providing guidance and coaching to People Partners on lower-level investigations. Partner with Internal Risk, Compliance and other teams to ensure coordinated, thorough responses and investigations into related concerns.

• Performance Management Advisory: Serve as senior advisor to People Partners on complex performance management matters, particularly those intersecting with investigations or involving senior employees. Provide strategic guidance on performance improvement plans, disciplinary actions, and separations.

• Policy Development & Education: Collaborate with ER leadership, Integrity/Compliance, Enablement, and other teams on employee relations policies. Own education strategy for investigations and ER best practices, delivering training to People Partners, managers, and employees as needed.

• Program Development: Along with the ER team, build scalable, repeatable processes for investigations, case management, and employee relations issues. Develop frameworks for consistent decision-making while maintaining flexibility for nuanced situations.

• Data & Insights: Track ER metrics and trends to identify patterns, inform policy decisions, and proactively address systemic issues, particularly as they relate to the client groups you support. Use data to improve programs and measure impact.

• Cross-functional Partnership: Work closely with Employment Legal on risk assessment, compliance matters, and sensitive cases. Partner with Security, Trust & Safety, and other teams as needed on matters with broader organizational implications.

Minimum Qualifications

• Have conducted 50+ workplace investigations, including complex, multi-party investigations involving allegations of harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and policy violations

• Are skilled at managing highly sensitive situations with discretion, empathy, and sound judgment

• Have exceptional analytical and communication skills, with the ability to write clear, thorough, legally defensible investigation reports and present findings to senior leadership

• Can balance being a trusted advisor with maintaining objectivity and independence

• Excel at de-escalating charged situations and building trust with employees at all levels

• Have experience advising on performance management, separations, and other employee relations matters in fast-paced, high-growth environments

• Are comfortable with ambiguity and can create structure where none exists

• Think strategically about program design while also being willing to roll up your sleeves for hands-on work

• Experience supporting global clients

• Care deeply about fairness, equity, and creating psychologically safe workplaces

Preferred Qualifications

• Have 8 + years of progressive experience in employee relations, workplace investigations, or employment law

• J.D. degree from an accredited law school (preferred but not required)

• AWI-CH, SPHR, or similar certifications

• Experience managing international employee relations issues

• Background working at technology companies or startups

• Experience helping to build ER functions from the ground up or through periods of significant growth

• Familiarity with multi-state or international employment law and compliance considerations

• Experience with ER case management systems and tools

• Knowledge of or interest in AI safety and the unique people challenges in frontier AI development

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:

$245,000 - $310,000 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. 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