Counsel Law and Compliance

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 Anthropic is seeking a Privacy Counsel to join our Legal team. You'll counsel on complex privacy issues and build the processes and programs that address privacy and data protection in a global context. This is a unique opportunity to join a dynamic and growing team, where you will have the chance to shape the company's privacy and data protection strategy and compliance program.

You will work at the intersection of novel legal questions, fast-moving product development, and a high-profile regulatory environment, partnering cross-functionally with Legal, Integrity & Compliance, Safeguards, Security, Policy, Research and Product.

Key responsibilities Counsel product, research and engineering teams across the model and product lifecycles, applying laws written before frontier AI with clarity and fresh thinking

Translate complex technical architecture into clear, actionable risk advice

Deliver integrated guidance on safety, security and data protection

Lead privacy on Anthropic's most strategic deals and partnerships, opening creative paths for novel technologies

Negotiate privacy and data protection terms in enterprise, platform and partnership commercial agreements, including DPAs, BAAs, data sharing agreements and cross-border transfer terms

Collaborate closely with counsel and privacy colleagues on joint analysis, bringing competing views together into a single, well-reasoned position

JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.Hands-on experience advising a technology business (in-house or at a leading law firm) on privacy and data protection

Experience drafting and negotiating data protection agreements, such as DPAs, BAAs and data sharing agreements

Working knowledge of key global privacy laws, including those of the Americas, EEA and APAC

Preferred qualifications At least 8 years of privacy and data protection legal experience

Deep familiarity with software and model development and architecture

Privacy and data protection work on mergers, acquisitions, and similar transactions

Role-specific policy: For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco or New York 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.

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.

$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

Location-based hybrid policy: 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.

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 view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

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. Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.

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