Commercial Counsel

Anthropic is seeking a dynamic Commercial Counsel to support commercial and technology transactions at Anthropic. You’ll be an integral part of our efforts to support customers and partners looking to deploy our cutting-edge AI systems for high impact use cases. We’ll rely on you to be a thought leader and execution partner to our business teams as part of our rapidly-growing, close-knit commercial function.

Responsibilities:

• Craft, negotiate and close complex commercial transactions with the company’s customers and strategic partners, across a range of industries.
• Collaborate with the sales and partnerships teams on the strategy and execution needed to support our high-growth go-to-market efforts.
• Actively participate in the Commercial Legal Team’s scaling and building efforts, and enhance our collegial and supportive team culture.

You may be a good fit if you have:

• JD; active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California preferred)
• 6+ years of related legal experience (in-house preferred) with at least 5 years of experience developing and negotiating SaaS agreements and/or technology transactions.
• Experience operating in a fast-paced environment, and excel at navigating ambiguity.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills that enable you to effectively support cross-functional teams, as well as external customers and partners.
• Intense curiosity about novel technology and science, and an aptitude for learning quickly.
• A “doer” attitude, and are willing to roll up your sleeves to support your team and the company.
• Strong integrity and empathy, and see these as part of what you bring to your work and work environment.

Strong candidates may also have:

• Deep substantive knowledge of enterprise software services agreements, and other software licensing and distribution, strategic partnerships, and intellectual property (patent, trade secret, copyright) agreements.
• Experience working closely with sales and partnerships teams to scale growing businesses.
• A background supporting emerging technologies.

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Role-specific policy: For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco 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.