People Partner, Research

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.

We are looking for a Senior People Partner based in the San Francisco Bay Area to support our Research and Safeguards teams. This role will be a critical member of the People Partner team, working on key HR projects in alignment with our partners across Compensation, Benefits, People Services, and Talent. In addition you'll be providing excellent coaching and strategic support to senior leaders and people managers across the Research and Safeguards functions who are deeply engaged with creating safe AGI that benefits humanity. You will help build out HR policies and strategies that meet your clients’s unique needs, and act as a trusted leader and guide on a wide range of employee-related topics.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a trusted advisor and coach to leaders in Research and Safeguards, including the Head of Safeguards
• Provide support to employees and managers on all human resource-related topics throughout their lifecycle at Anthropic in partnership with other People team experts (e.g. Benefits, Compensation, etc.)
• Work closely with management to create a culture of high performance based on our values and team culture while helping ensure that performance management and employee relations issues are managed appropriately
• Act as a partner and liaison with specialist teams (e.g. Benefits, Compensation, etc.), leadership, and finance, to help Anthropic continue to implement top-tier, scalable programs and policies to attract and retain and grow outstanding talent at Anthropic 
• Work on cross-functional projects with other People Partners and specialist teams to enable and grow our Ants (e.g. Manager training, etc.)

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have a minimum of 6-10 years experience working in People Partner, People Operations, Employee Relations, Recruiting, or other closely related functions
• Have experience operating at a fast-growing Tech company in HR, and fluency with employment law and best practices in North America
• Have worked at a tech company, start-up, or a similarly fast-paced environment

Strong candidates may also:

• Have experience working with AI focused Research and Engineering teams 
• Care deeply when it comes to helping and supporting a diverse set of people at all levels of an organization, excelling in supporting employees and managers to do their best work
• Have proven experience and skill sets in providing confidential, practical support and are trained in topics like conflict resolution
• Have strong working knowledge of human-resource-related best practices and are able to effectively implement these in a culturally appropriate fashion
• Be a pragmatic problem-solver and enjoy developing creative solutions
• Thrive in building and scaling processes, and enjoy identifying and setting up new systems at a quickly growing company
• Care about ensuring that advanced AI systems are developed safely, and have a deep curiosity about  artificial intelligence and its potential applications

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

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.

Annual Salary:$245,000—$310,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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