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Salary: USD 265,000 - 335,000 / annual
Anthropic is seeking a Product Counsel to serve as a hands-on legal partner to teams building Claude for consumers and businesses. This is a generalist legal role focused on providing clear, practical guidance across Claude's apps, subscriptions, growth programs, and enterprise offerings.
Key responsibilities include partnering with Product, Engineering, Design, and cross-functional teams to provide legal guidance from early-stage ideas through product launch. You will review product launches across consumer and enterprise offerings, identify issues early, and help teams navigate forward. You'll advise on subscriptions, pricing, promotions, billing, and growth programs while ensuring compliance with consumer protection and marketing regulations. The role involves supporting enterprise and regulated-industry products on topics such as admin controls, customer commitments, and enterprise readiness.
You will draft and review user-facing terms, disclosures, in-product copy, and marketing claims. A key part of the role is coordinating with privacy, commercial, IP, safety, and other specialists to provide integrated answers to product partners. You'll build guides, templates, and AI-powered workflows to streamline routine questions and free up capacity for novel legal issues. The role requires flexibility to pick up new areas as priorities shift and to support incidents and escalations.
Anthropics's 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.
Requirements:
- Hold a law degree (JD, LLB, or equivalent) and meet local licensing requirements to work as in-house counsel in San Francisco
- At least 4 years of relevant legal experience with exposure to technology, consumer, or regulated products
- Experience advising business or product teams directly, not only other lawyers
- Working knowledge of at least two of: consumer protection, privacy, advertising and marketing law, technology transactions, IP, or regulated industries
- Curiosity about how AI products work and ability to pick up technical concepts quickly
- Ability to make clear recommendations even with incomplete information
- Comfort moving between assignments as priorities change, with no job too big or too small
- Clear, concise writing that non-lawyers can act on
- Openness to feedback and track record of improving quickly
- Experience using AI tools in legal work, or strong interest in learning to do so
- Empathy and service orientation with commitment to Anthropic's mission
Preferred qualifications:
- In-house product counsel experience or secondment with a product team
- Experience with subscription businesses, promotions, or consumer billing
- Experience supporting enterprise SaaS or regulated customers (healthcare, financial services)
- Experience building playbooks, self-serve guidance, or legal automation
