Corporate Legal Specialist
Anthropic
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 the Role
We are seeking an experienced Corporate Legal Specialist to join our dynamic legal team. As we continue to scale rapidly, we need a detail-oriented legal operations partner who can provide crucial support across our corporate legal functions. The ideal candidate will bring substantial transactional experience and demonstrated ability to build and operationalize corporate processes, particularly around operationalizing corporate policies, record management, and system integrations.
Responsibilities:
- Support complex corporate transactions including M&A, financing rounds, and strategic partnerships through due diligence coordination, document management, and closing preparations
- Operationalize and maintain corporate policies, including implementing workflows that integrate with our existing systems and ensure proper records retention
- Build and maintain scalable corporate operations processes, with emphasis on documentation, audit trails, and system integrations
- Manage and maintain corporate records, minute books, and stock ledgers for parent company and subsidiaries
- Support corporate governance matters, including maintaining entity records, managing board materials, and assisting with regulatory filings
- Assist with equity program administration, including managing cap table updates, stock issuances, and option grants
- Partner with outside counsel as needed on various corporate matters
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams on special projects and continuously improve internal processes
You may be a good fit if you have:
- At least 10 years of experience in legal operations, business/operations manager, or paralegal role in a corporate legal department or similar experience
- Substantial experience supporting M&A transactions and financing rounds, with demonstrated end-to-end transaction management
- Proven track record of building corporate operations processes from scratch, including signing authority frameworks, approval workflows, and records management systems
- Experience integrating legal processes with contract management systems (CLM) and maintaining data integrity across platforms
- Strong knowledge of corporate governance, SEC compliance, and entity management
- Experience managing multiple complex projects simultaneously
Strong candidates may have:
- In-house or similar experience at a global law firm
- Experience in a tech company or other fast-paced environment
- Experience supporting board meetings and maintaining corporate minutes
- Familiarity with AI tools such as Claude to automate workflows and improve efficiency
Role-specific policy: For this role, we expect staff to be able to work from our San Francisco 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.
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