Employment Counsel, Anthropic
$240-300k
+ Optional equity donation matching
More information about location
3 days a week in office
AI safety and research company
Be an early applicant
AI safety and research company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$240-300k
+ Optional equity donation matching
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate pairs US and international employment law experience, with the ability to develop scalable processes and collaborate effectively across technical and business teams in a fast-paced and fun environment
- Have a JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California preferred)
- Have 7+ years of practicing employment law at a global-focused law firm or in-house
- Are humble, thoughtful, exercise sound judgment and operate at the highest level of integrity
- Are strategic, flexible, resourceful, and solution-oriented
- Have strong organizational and project management skills, and are able to prioritize and execute on tasks
- Have exceptional analytical, writing, and communication skills. You understand how to succinctly and effectively communicate legal issues to non-lawyers
Desirable
- In-house or similar experience at a global law firm
- Experience in a tech company or other fast-paced environment
What the job involves
- Anthropic is seeking an exceptional Employment Counsel to support Anthropic's growing global workforce
- As the second employment attorney at Anthropic, you will closely partner with our People team, business and technical stakeholders to build and manage employment programs that enable high performers to achieve their best work
- Act as a trusted advisor to the People team and managers on a wide range of U.S. and global matters, including compensation, benefits, performance management, leaves of absence, and contingent worker issues
- Develop, implement and manage compliant employment programs and practices and help to guide our employment legal strategy and to create a culture of high performance and alignment to Anthropic’s values and People philosophy
- Craft clear and comprehensive written guidance, policies, and communications that effectively translate complex employment law concepts into actionable frameworks for technical and business stakeholders across the organization
- Leverage your experience to proactively identify and mitigate employment legal risks
- Liaise and manage relationships with outside counsel, as necessary
- Stay up to date on relevant employment laws, regulations, and industry trends, and disseminate these developments and implications for Anthropic’s mission and business to key stakeholders
Application process
- Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis
Our take
Funded by Google and founded by ex-OpenAI employees, Anthropic is an AI company focused on building a reliable, innovative AI system. While the company is relatively new to the market it has already launched a highly anticipated AI chat assistant called Claude which is set to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Similar to other chatbots, Claude is accessible through a chat interface and can provide a number of conversation and text-processing tasks. A key point of differentiation is that Claude is designed to produce less harmful outputs than that of the other chatbots that came before it.
While there is much praise for the chat assistant, there is still room for improvement with feedback reporting that Claude is worse at maths and grammar compared to its rival. However, with industry giants like Google backing this company from an early stage, it is clear Anthropic has the potential to become a leading player within the AI industry.
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back within 2 weeks
190% employee growth in 12 months
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jan 2025
$1bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Nov 2024
$4bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $12.8bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
- Generous subsidy for OneMedical
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching
- $500/month flexible wellness stipend
- Commuter coverage
- Annual education stipend
- A home office improvement stipend when you first join
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area
Company values
- Here for the mission: We pursue our mission by building frontier systems, studying their behaviors, working to responsibly deploy them, and regularly sharing our safety insights. We collaborate with other projects and stakeholders seeking a similar outcome.
- Unusually high trust: We assume good faith, disagree kindly, and prioritize honesty. We expect emotional maturity and intellectual openness. At its best, our trust enables us to make better decisions as an organization than any one of us could as individuals.
- Do the simple thing that works: We celebrate trying the simple thing before the clever, novel thing. We embrace pragmatism - sensible, practical approaches that acknowledge tradeoffs. We love empiricism - finding out what actually works by trying it - and apply this to our research, our engineering and our collaboration. We aim to be open about what we understand and what we don’t.
- One big team: Collaboration is central to our work, culture, and value proposition. While we have many teams at Anthropic, we feel the broader sense in which we are all on the same team working together towards the mission.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Dario Amodei
(CEO & Co-Founder)Spent almost 5 years at OpenAI as a Team Lead for AI safety and as the Vice President of Research. Also worked as a Research Scientist at Google.
Jared Kaplan
(Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder)Has been a Professor at John Hopkins University for the past 10 years. Also an experienced researcher having worked previously at OpenAI and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Jack Clark
(Co-Founder)Experienced reporter having worked previously at the Register and Bloomberg. Also worked for OpenAI in Strategy and Communications and as a Policy Director.
Sam McCandlish
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Theoretical Physics. Previously worked as a Research Lead at OpenAI.
Tom Brown
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Member of the Technical Staff for both OpenAI and Google Brain.
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