[Contract] Recruiter, Legal

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 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.

Anthropic is seeking an experienced contract Legal Recruiter to join our G&A recruiting team on a contract basis. In this role, you’ll partner closely with leaders across our Legal organization that shapes how Anthropic operates and delivers on its mission.

This role requires someone who can assess not just legal domain expertise, but also alignment with our values and the adaptability required to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You’ll need to hit the ground running — we’re looking for a contractor who can own a pipeline from day one with minimal ramp.

Responsibilities:

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Lead end-to-end recruiting for Legal roles across the organization, including commercial counsel, product counsel, regulatory/privacy counsel, litigation, paralegals, and legal operations

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Develop and execute strategic recruiting plans, including law firm and in-house competitive mapping, targeted sourcing, and building long-term talent pipelines for hard-to-fill legal specialties

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Build trusted partnerships with Legal leadership to understand business priorities, team structures, ideal candidate profiles, and required competencies across different legal practice areas

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Create exceptional candidate experiences that showcase Anthropic’s mission, growth trajectory, and the unique opportunity for legal professionals to work at the frontier of AI

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Design and implement scalable recruiting processes that effectively assess legal domain expertise, business judgment, and cultural alignment

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Track recruiting metrics and use data to identify bottlenecks, optimize processes, and maintain a high-quality hiring bar

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Coach hiring managers on recruiting best practices, structured interview techniques, and strategies for building diverse, high-performing legal teams

You may be a good fit if you:

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Have 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience with meaningful exposure to legal hiring and understand the legal talent market

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Are comfortable working as a contractor in ambiguous, high-growth environments — you self-direct, ramp quickly, and help hiring teams build structure rather than waiting for it

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Have strong stakeholder management skills — you can share examples of frameworks you’ve built that drive hiring while coaching legal hiring managers to improve their recruiting

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Are highly organized with strong attention to detail — you stay on top of data integrity and maintain regular touch points with candidates and hiring managers

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Are comfortable analyzing recruiting data and can connect key metrics to monitor recruiting health and maintain a great hiring experience

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Are passionate about AI’s potential to positively impact the world while understanding its risks and limitations

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:
$110,000—$145,000 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.

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