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 seeking an experienced People Legal Specialist to join our growing legal team and serve as the operational backbone for a small, high-impact team that advises on how Anthropic interacts with the people who power our mission: employees, candidates, advisors, and contingent workers globally. You will be a trusted project manager and process-builder, working under the guidance of legal counsel to keep employment matters running efficiently so our attorneys can focus on the thorniest strategic questions. You will partner closely with colleagues on the Litigation & Regulatory team and People team operations functions to help the People Legal team scale its support for a rapidly growing, globally distributed workforce at the frontier of AI.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor incoming claims, demands, and agency inquiries to ensure Anthropic responds in a timely and appropriate manner; maintain matter-tracking systems and keep stakeholders informed of status
- Act as the primary operational link between People Legal and partner teams to ensure context-rich handoffs and integrated, efficient delivery of legal support
- Maintain accurate records and documentation related to legal matters, including managing case files and calendars
- Handle personnel document requests, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and timely responses to requests
- Support attorneys with legal research, document preparation, and template management; help distill work product into clear, actionable formats for internal stakeholders
- Identify opportunities to streamline processes and leverage tools—including Claude—to reduce repetitive work and free up team bandwidth for higher-value contributions
- Flex beyond core responsibilities as the team's needs evolve, pitching in on special projects and cross-functional initiatives as they arise
You may be a good fit if you have:
- At least 8 years of relevant experience in legal operations or paralegal role in a corporate legal department or similar experience.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to effectively interact with individuals at all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrated the ability to exercise good judgment and maintain the highest standards of discretion and confidentiality when handling sensitive legal matters.
- Strong project management skills, including the ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Proactive and solutions-oriented approach to identifying, recommending, and implementing process improvements within the legal department.
- Comfort building processes from scratch, not just executing on established playbooks
Strong candidates may have:
- Comfort experimenting with AI tools to make legal operations more efficient, or a genuine curiosity about learning to do so
- 2+ years of experience working in a high-growth tech company, with exposure to US and international employment matters
- Demonstrated the ability to think critically and creatively problem-solve, adapting to new challenges and finding innovative solutions to complex legal issues.
- Familiarity with legal project management software, such as Asana, Trello, or Jira, and a willingness to learn and adopt new technologies to streamline legal processes.
- Experience using legal research databases (PACER, LexisNexis, Pohlman, Westlaw)
Role-specific policy: For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco, Seattle, or New York offices 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.
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.
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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.
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
