Product Counsel

Join the team making AI safe.
Anthropic is seeking a thoughtful, multidisciplinary product counsel to support our teams building and deploying innovative AI systems and products. As a member of the Product Counsel function, you will be responsible for ensuring our products meet key principles around AI safety, privacy, and other legal and regulatory compliance. You will work cross-functionally to identify and address risks, help define policies and procedures, advise on product development, and support internal education on legal issues. The ideal candidate will have experience navigating complex, rapidly changing, ambiguous areas of law and policy, balancing competing concerns, and translating broad principles into concrete actions and advice, especially on issues at the intersection of AI, data privacy, content moderation and intellectual property. As one of the early in-house lawyers in a rapidly scaling startup, you’ll step up to handle whatever needs doing.

You will

• Collaborate with the Product team to develop and review product specifications, data policies and system changes to identify potential policy, safety or legal issues related to Anthropic’s existing and planned product deployments. Provide pragmatic advice and risk mitigation recommendations to cross-functional teams.
• Help formally define key principles and policies around data governance, AI ethics, privacy, consumer protection, trust and safety controls, and IP. Assist in the development of guidelines, checklists and controls to ensure new and existing products meet key standards. 
• Monitor pending legislation and actively track best practices regarding AI governance to ensure systems remain compliant as laws change. Effectively communicate potential impacts to colleagues across roles and seniority levels.
• Develop expertise on laws and regulations specifically relevant to AI including data privacy legislation, IP policy, and sector-specific requirements. Remain up to date on machine learning practices, limitations, and risk areas. 
• Educate teams on emerging policy issues, legal responsibilities, and safe AI practices. Deliver tailored advice and training to new hires working on AI/generative systems and products. 
• Work with external legal counsel, technical experts, and policymakers as required to advance understanding, set appropriate governance controls, and address risks. 
• As a relatively small legal team supporting big things, each attorney 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 might be a good fit if:

• You have a passion for developing AI that is both innovative and trustworthy. You understand the opportunities of AI to benefit society as well as the risks and limitations that must be addressed.
• 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.
• You understand how to achieve the right balance between the organization’s mission and goals, when to be flexible, and when to draw a hard line.
• You have a knack for identifying and implementing efficient processes and policies.
• You 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.
• You enjoy wearing many hats in a fast-growing startup environment and are comfortable operating outside your areas of expertise and in uncharted legal territory.
• You 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 solve difficult problems.

Requirements

• JD; active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California preferred).
• 5-10 years relevant legal experience (in-house preferred). Specific expertise in AI law, IP, consumer protection, and privacy strongly preferred. 
• Exceptional analytical skills, technical fluency, and ability to navigate ambiguity.
• Broad understanding of key issues in AI, data privacy, ethics and policy. Familiarity with machine learning, generative models and products strongly preferred.
• Track record of educating internal stakeholders, translating complex concepts, and advising on risk mitigation strategies. 
• Superior communication abilities, with proven experience in cross-functional collaboration and consensus building.  
• Motivated self-starter able to multi-task and juggle multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Growth mindset, with a passion for AI's potential to positively impact the world and realistic. assessment of its risks and limitations. Commi