Employment Counsel

About the role

Anthropic is seeking an exceptional Employment Counsel who 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. The ideal candidate pairs law firm and in-house experience, with the ability to develop scalable processes and collaborate effectively across technical and business teams in a fast-paced and fun environment.

Responsibilities

• Advise the People team and managers on a wide range of U.S. legal matters, including compensation, benefits, performance management, leaves of absences, and contingent worker issues
• Implement and manage compliant employment programs 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, industry trends, and disseminate to key stakeholders these developments and their implications to Anthropic's mission and business

Requirements

• J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar
• Substantial experience practicing employment law, with a blend of law firm and in-house experience
• Demonstrated ability to provide clear, practical legal guidance to non-lawyers on complex employment matters
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and manage multiple matters concurrently
• Sound judgment, high integrity, and a collaborative, solutions-oriented approach
• Active membership in the California or New York state bar
• 7+ years of employment law experience
• Experience at a technology company or other fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Experience advising on international employment legal matters
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and building programs and processes from the ground up
• Role-specific policy: For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our New York or DC 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 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:
• $265,000 - $320,000 USD
• Logistics
• 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.

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Additional Information

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.

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