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 a hands-on Legal Specialist (Litigation/Regulatory) to join our Legal team at Anthropic. In this role, you will be a key player in building out our legal function and supporting our efforts to safeguard our intellectual property while navigating the intricate regulatory landscape of the AI industry. The successful candidate will be a strong team player, able to build positive relationships with colleagues and work collaboratively towards shared goals.

Responsibilities:

• Manage legal document lifecycle, including drafting, review, filing, and organization as needed
• Support litigation matters, including collecting documents, drafting and organizing legal holds, and managing e-discovery
• Maintain accurate records and documentation related to legal matters, including managing case files and calendars
• Handle data claims and data demands, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and timely responses to requests 
• Assist with research, document preparation, and other tasks as required by the legal team
• Alongside Anthropic in-house counsel, coordinate with outside counsel as needed
• Monitor and analyze legal trends and developments relevant to our industry 
• Stretch beyond core responsibilities as needed to support the legal team’s objectives

You may be a good fit if you have:

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in legal operations, business/operations manager, 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
• Comprehensive knowledge of e-discovery systems and processes
• Demonstrated 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
• Proficient in eDiscovery software including Casepoint 
• Experience using legal research databases (PACER, LexisNexis, Pohlman, Westlaw) etc.

Strong candidates may also have:

• Genuine interest in technology development and AI, with a desire to work in a fast-paced, innovative environment
• 2+ years of experience working in a high-growth tech company, with exposure to the unique legal challenges and opportunities presented by emerging technologies
• Demonstrated 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

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.