Corporate Compliance Officer

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's Integrity & Compliance (I&C) function is building the systems that let us scale responsibly as our products reach more people, more enterprises, and more regulated industries. Our global compliance program is bespoke, reflecting our unique mission and position as one of the leading AI labs operating on the frontier.

Our Corporate Compliance program comprises a key pillar of our overall Integrity and Compliance function and covers a range of compliance domain areas including anti-bribery, anti-corruption, employee conduct and third party management.

As a member of the Corporate Compliance team, you'll be a core driver of a small, high-leverage team enhancing and executing on Anthropic's Corporate Compliance program. This is a generalist seat anchored by deep anti-bribery/anti-corruption expertise. You'll roll up your sleeves across the full Corporate Compliance remit — third-party risk, gifts & hospitality, conflicts of interest, outside business activities, the Code of Conduct, speak-up matters, and internal investigations — and be a subject-matter expert the business looks to on ABAC: setting the standards for third-party risk management, advising on government interactions and high-risk hospitality, and supporting Legal on compliance terms in commercial agreements. You'll also be a thought partner on how we use AI to run a modern compliance function.

This is a builder's role at a company that takes integrity seriously and moves fast. We're looking for a pragmatic, solution-oriented problem-solver who operates comfortably in grey areas, brings a beginner's mind to the job, and holds the line — clearly and credibly — where it matters. You'll work directly with legal, policy, partnerships, and go-to-market teams across multiple regions, exercise independent judgment on novel questions, and help design the frameworks that enable Anthropic to scale responsibly.

Key responsibilities

• Advise business teams on government-official interactions, gifts and hospitality, third-party risk, and related FCPA / UK Bribery Act / local-law questions

• Support Legal on anti-corruption, conflict-of-interest, and related compliance terms in commercial agreements

• Review and disposition conflicts of interest, outside business activity requests, and gifts & hospitality matters, including escalations and edge cases

• Serve as an ABAC subject-matter expert to the owner of the third-party risk management framework — advising on risk tiering, screening standards, ongoing monitoring, and escalation paths

• Conduct and support internal investigations into compliance matters, including running discrete matters end-to-end as first chair

• Develop policies, guidance, and training; partner across the business on cross-functional compliance topics

• Help design and supervise AI-assisted compliance workflows (screening, intake triage, diligence drafting), bringing judgment to what gets automated and what stays human

Minimum qualifications

• Substantial depth in anti-corruption / FCPA / third-party risk — gained in-house, at a law firm white-collar/compliance practice, and/or in government (DOJ, SEC, SFO, or similar)

• Hands-on experience running or overseeing third-party due diligence end to end: scoping, screening/adverse media, questionnaires, risk analysis, and mitigation

• Experience conducting internal investigations — scoping, evidence collection and review, witness interviews, findings memos, and remediation recommendations

• Experience advising Legal and deal teams on anti-corruption and related compliance terms and risks in commercial agreements

• Clear, practical writing and the ability to give business-usable advice

• Sound, independent judgment in ambiguous, fast-moving situations — knowing when to align, when to push, and when to escalate

Preferred qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience

• Range across the broader corporate compliance portfolio (Gifts & Hospitality, Conflicts, Outside Business Activities, Code of Conduct, speak-up) and the curiosity to learn what you haven't done yet

• High EQ — reads rooms and relationships well and earns trust quickly across stakeholders

• Genuine interest in using AI tools to do compliance work better

• Experience standing up or maturing a compliance program at a high-growth or technology company

• International experience — advising on market entry, partner/reseller programs, or government engagement outside the U.S.

• Significant first-chair internal investigations experience, including privileged investigations and presenting findings to senior leadership or a board/audit committee

• Familiarity with sanctions/export, political-law, or human-rights/supply-chain risk management (adjacent areas this role will touch)

Role-specific policy: For this role, we expect staff to be able to work from either our Washington, DC, San Francisco, or New York City 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 annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

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