Senior Contracts Manager

Anthropic is seeking a highly qualified Senior Contracts Manager to support commercial and technology transactions.
We’ll rely on you to help review, draft, and negotiate commercial contracts to support our cutting-edge AI systems, build scalable contracting processes, and collaborate across Product, Sales, Business Operations, Research, and Procurement teams.
About Anthropic Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our customers and for society as a whole.
Our interdisciplinary team has experience across ML, physics, policy, business and product.
Responsibilities: Draft, analyze, negotiate, and complete complex commercial transactions with the company’s enterprise customers, vendors, and strategic partners, including IP licensing agreements and procurement agreements Propose and develop scalable solutions to improve contracting efficiency Collaborate with the Product, Sales, Business Operations, Research, and Procurement teams to achieve key business objectives and deliver strategic, business-minded, and solutions-focused counsel As a relatively small legal team supporting big things, each legal team member practices across multiple areas.
We’d love to hear where else you’d be interested to pitch in, whether as a function of your experience or interests You may be a good fit if you: Have experience operating in a fast-paced technology startup in which priorities shift rapidly and schedules “move to the left.
” You thrive in this dynamic environment and pride yourself on your adaptability and ability to pivot with speed and grace Understand what’s important in the context of a contract, the organization’s mission, when to be flexible, and when to draw a hard line Are excited to grow with an organization and help shape the culture of the commercial function Prefer straightforward, concise explanations to legalese and overwrought drafting Have a knack for identifying and implementing efficient processes and policies Thrive as a member of cross-functional teams building frontier technologies and want to develop a deep understanding of our technical teams and what we are building Are comfortable operating outside your areas of expertise and in uncharted legal territory Are a “doer” and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done.
You’re a team player who doesn’t hesitate to jump in to do work that needs to get done whether glamorous or not Strong candidates may also: Have 10+ years of related contract management experience, with at least 3 years of experience supporting technology transactions Have substantive knowledge of software agreements, reseller agreements, services agreements, strategic partnerships, and intellectual property i.
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patent, trade secret, copyright licensing arrangements Have excellent verbal and written communication, analytical, collaboration, and interpersonal skills Be motivated self-starters who are able to multi-task and juggle multiple priorities in a dynamic environment Have authentic integrity and a deep understanding of the importance of ethics in business Annual Salary (USD) The expected salary range for this position is $220k - $275k USD.
Logistics Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in our office at least 75% of the time.
Deadline to apply: None.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
US visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate; operations roles are especially difficult to support.
But if we make you an offer, we will make every effort to get you into the United States, 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.
Compensation and Benefits* Anthropic’s compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits.
We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates.
Equity - On top of this position's salary (listed above), equity will be a major component of the total compensation.
We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.
Benefits - Benefits we offer include: - Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching.
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more! - Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness.
- Fertility benefits via Carrot.
- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.
* This compensation and benefits information is based on Anthropic’s good faith estimate for this position, in San Francisco, CA, as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.
The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors, including where you place on our internal performance ladders, which is based on factors including past work experience, relevant education, and performance on our interviews or in a work trial.
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.
We're trying to build a core of knowledge and intuition about the most robustly effective innovations in AI, and so thoroughly-documented null results are almost as valuable as positive discoveries.
We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both as needed.
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 based 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.