Commercial Counsel

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.

We are looking for exceptional Commercial Counsel candidates to join our dynamic and cohesive legal team at the forefront of shaping how cutting-edge AI technology reaches users, researchers, and enterprises worldwide. We operate as true strategic partners—moving fast, thinking creatively, and working collaboratively to support deals that matter. We handle everything from enterprise go-to-market agreements and groundbreaking research collaborations to complex compute infrastructure deals and product partnerships that push the boundaries of what's possible with AI.

This is a rare opportunity to tackle novel legal challenges that don't have precedent, build scalable frameworks for an emerging industry, and contribute directly to responsible AI development.

Responsibilities:

• Structure, negotiate, and close a potential wide range of commercial agreements spanning GTM, research collaborations, policy and product partnerships, procurement, and compute infrastructure

• Partner collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on commercial terms and initiatives

• Help build our commercial legal infrastructure, from contract templates to strategic playbooks, that supports our organization's accelerating commercial momentum

• Identify and manage legal risks while maintaining momentum in our rapidly evolving AI landscape

• Stay current on legal developments affecting AI technologies and provide timely guidance to stakeholders

You might be a good fit if you have:

• A JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar

• Exceptional attention to detail and analytical skills

• Strong ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies and legal frameworks

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex legal concepts for non-lawyer audiences

• A low-ego, high-empathy orientation to internal colleagues and external partners

• Intense curiosity about AI technology and commitment to responsible AI development

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and ambiguity

• A "doer" attitude willing to roll up your sleeves and pitch in where needed

Whether you're early in your legal career or bring decades of experience, we encourage you to apply if you are excited about our mission and bringing the best legal craftsmanship to it. All applicants should hold a JD and maintain active standing with their state bar.

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.

The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.

Annual Salary:
$265,000—$320,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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.

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