Corporate Counsel, Public Reporting

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 looking for an experienced securities lawyer to join the Corporate Legal team as Corporate Counsel, Public Company Reporting & Governance. In this role, you will prepare our SEC filings, advise on securities law and corporate governance, and support the Board and its committees. You will also partner closely with finance, accounting, investor relations, and equity teams to build the systems, controls, and repeatable processes that accurate, timely disclosure depends on.

This is a hands-on role with meaningful scope and visibility. You will provide strategic, practical advice to senior leaders and teams across the company. You will draft and review disclosure yourself, while also helping build the processes and workflows that allow the function to scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and review SEC filings, including Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K, the proxy statement and Section 16 filings
• Advise on compliance with SEC and Nasdaq rules
• Help establish and run our disclosure controls and procedures, including the disclosure committee and the reporting calendar
• Support our securities compliance policies and the administration of the Insider Trading Policy, including trading windows, pre-clearance and 10b5-1 plans
• Review earnings materials, press releases, investor presentations and other significant external and internal communications
• Partner with Investor Relations on Regulation FD compliance, stockholder engagement and the annual meeting
• Prepare Board and committee materials, draft minutes and resolutions, and maintain governance policies and committee charters
• Support executive and equity compensation disclosure with the People and Equity teams
• Advise the teams that report publicly on our mission and safety work
• Keep partner teams informed of governance trends and SEC and Nasdaq developments
• Contribute to the processes and tools that let a small team handle public company work at scale

Minimum Qualifications

• Hold a law degree (JD, LLB, or equivalent) and meet the local licensing requirements to work as in-house counsel where you’ll be based (California or New York preferred)
• Significant public company reporting experience. This role is focused on periodic reporting and governance, and is not a capital markets or M&A role
• Deep knowledge of corporate and securities law, including SEC and Nasdaq rules
• Experience giving accurate, practical advice in real time at a fast-growing company
• A working understanding of accounting and corporate finance
• A track record of building strong working relationships across teams
• Clear written and verbal communication with executives and non-lawyers, without legal jargon

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 8 years of relevant legal experience, including securities and corporate governance experience at a law firm and in-house at a public company
• Experience building processes and procedures to public-company standards
• Experience supporting a public company board and its committees
• A track record of standing up a process or program
• The ability to translate securities law requirements into clear, practical guidance for business teams
• Sound judgment and the ability to advise with incomplete information

Role-specific policy: For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco or New York 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—$335,000 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.

For roles performing work in California: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

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.