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Salary: USD 265,000 - 335,000 / annual
Anthropic is seeking a Privacy Counsel to join its Legal team. You will counsel on complex privacy issues and build processes and programs that address privacy and data protection in a global context, shaping the company's privacy and data protection strategy and compliance program.
You will work at the intersection of novel legal questions, fast-moving product development, and a high-profile regulatory environment, partnering cross-functionally with Legal, Integrity & Compliance, Safeguards, Security, Policy, Research, and Product teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Counsel product, research, and engineering teams across the model and product lifecycles, applying privacy laws to frontier AI with clarity and fresh thinking
- Translate complex technical architecture into clear, actionable risk advice
- Deliver integrated guidance on safety, security, and data protection
- Lead privacy on Anthropic's most strategic deals and partnerships, opening creative paths for novel technologies
- Negotiate privacy and data protection terms in enterprise, platform, and partnership commercial agreements, including DPAs, BAAs, data sharing agreements, and cross-border transfer terms
- Lead privacy diligence on mergers and acquisitions and support corporate governance
- Collaborate closely with counsel and privacy colleagues on joint analysis, bringing competing views together into a single, well-reasoned position
Anthropics mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. The company is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
Role-specific policy: You are expected to work from the San Francisco or New York office at least 3 days a week, though flexibility for an interim period may be considered.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum qualifications:
- JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar
- Hands-on experience advising a technology business (in-house or at a leading law firm) on privacy and data protection
- Experience drafting and negotiating data protection agreements, such as DPAs, BAAs, and data sharing agreements
- Working knowledge of key global privacy laws, including those of the Americas, EEA, and APAC
- Ability to read and engage with technical documentation, such as system designs and architecture diagrams
- Excellent legal writing, including clear, concise advice
Preferred qualifications:
- At least 8 years of privacy and data protection legal experience
- Deep familiarity with software and model development and architecture
- Proven ability to build privacy processes, playbooks, and templates that scale with a fast-growing business
- Direct engagement with privacy regulators, including providing briefings and responding to inquiries
- Privacy and data protection work on mergers, acquisitions, and similar transactions
- Background advising safety, security, or trust and safety teams, including on privacy incidents and notification decisions
