Regulatory Counsel

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

Anthropic is seeking a Regulatory Counsel to help support our global regulatory strategy at Anthropic. In this role, you will navigate the complex and rapidly evolving global regulatory landscape for AI across key markets worldwide. You will be at the forefront of novel legal and compliance challenges in artificial intelligence, advising on the development of scalable compliance programs that support Anthropic's responsible AI development mission.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, interpret and advise on emerging technology regulations across global markets, including the EU, US, UK, Asia-Pacific, and other key regions
• Analyze, interpret and advise on the application of pre-existing laws to to reflect changes in Anthropic’s business, operations and products and high-growth trajectory
• Develop comprehensive compliance strategies for Anthropic that address diverse regulatory frameworks worldwide
• Lead cross-regional regulatory analysis to identify common requirements and market-specific obligations
• Support Policy Legal on the identification of potential implementation challenges and risks during the pre-legislative process
• Partner with Legal, Compliance and business teams to translate global regulatory requirements into actionable compliance frameworks
• Represent Anthropic in international industry associations, regulatory forums and with other stakeholders
• Build relationships with key regulators and policymakers across multiple jurisdictions
• Coordinate with regional legal counsel to ensure consistent regulatory approaches while respecting local requirements
• Support our Go-To-Market team on the addressing customer and external partner queries in relation to their compliance expectations relating to emerging laws
• Support the development of Anthropic's global regulatory compliance strategy

You may be a good fit if you have:

• A JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California preferred)
• At least 8 years of regulatory legal experience, preferably at hyper-growth technology environments particularly areas such as AI Safety regulation, content moderation/online safety, privacy and ESG
• Experience navigating complex multi-jurisdictional compliance challenges for technology companies and engaging with regulatory authorities across different cultural and legal contexts
• A strong understanding of global AI governance developments and policy trends, with aptitude for developing novel compliance approaches in areas without established precedent
• Excellence in cross-functional collaboration and ability to effectively communicate complex legal concepts to technical, policy, and business teams
• Passion for responsible AI development while balancing innovation with appropriate safeguards
• Ability to travel internationally as needed to support global regulatory initiatives

Strong candidates may have:

• A track record of developing novel compliance approaches for cutting-edge technologies with limited regulatory precedent
• Experience translating technical AI concepts and capabilities into legal and regulatory contexts for diverse stakeholders
• Background in related regulatory areas that intersect with AI governance (e.g., cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, competition law)

Role-specific policy: For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco, New York or Washington, D.C. 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.

Annual Salary:

$265,000—$320,000 USD

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