Anthropic

Corporate Counsel, M&A

Anthropic 📍 California, USA 🏢 On-site Posted Aug 27, 2026 via Anthropic careers
full-time 📂 Legal 🏢 On-site 🏭 Technology

✨ Job Highlights

  • ★Pay: $265,000 to $335,000 a year
  • ★On-site: New York or California
  • ★Full-time role in legal
  • ★Experience asked for: 5 to 8 years
  • ★Apply directly on Anthropic's careers site
  • ★Posted August 27, 2026

Full Job Description

Corporate Counsel, M&A job at Anthropic in New York

Anthropic is hiring a Corporate Counsel, M&A in New York or California. It is a full-time position. Anthropic lists pay of $265,000 to $335,000 a year.

Here is the role as Anthropic describes it.

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

We are seeking an experienced Corporate Counsel, M&A to join our corporate legal team. As Anthropic continues to scale, we need an M&A attorney who can drive strategic transactions, including acquisitions, acquihires, minority investments, joint ventures, and other structured deals, from initial diligence through execution and post-closing integration, and help us build the playbooks and processes to do it repeatably.

You will work closely with our Legal, Corporate Development, Finance, Accounting, and executive teams to execute transactions that support Anthropic's mission and growth objectives.

Key responsibilities

  • Lead legal workstreams on M&A transactions - acquisitions, acquihires, minority investments, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions - from due diligence through closing and post-closing integration
  • Draft, review, and negotiate transaction documents including letters of intent, purchase agreements, ancillary agreements, and related closing documentation
  • Manage and coordinate due diligence, including oversight of cross-functional workstreams and third-party advisors
  • Provide practical counsel on deal structuring, risk allocation, purchase price mechanics, indemnification, and other key transaction terms
  • Prepare materials for executive leadership (and, as needed, the Board) on transaction matters
  • Manage outside counsel relationships on transactions, including staffing, budgets, and work-product quality
  • Represent Legal on post-closing integration, working cross-functionally to ensure smooth transitions
  • Develop and maintain standardized processes, playbooks, and template documents that drive efficiency and best practices across M&A transactions
  • Support other corporate matters as needed
  • Minimum qualifications

  • Hold a law degree (JD, LLB, or equivalent) and meet the local licensing requirements to work as in-house counsel where you'll be based
  • Experience drafting and negotiating M&A transaction documents, including letters of intent, purchase agreements, and ancillary closing documentation
  • A deep understanding of transaction structures, including stock purchases, asset purchases, mergers, acquihires, minority investments, and joint ventures
  • Experience with both domestic and cross-border transactions
  • Experience advising technology companies and startups on the unique legal issues they present
  • Preferred qualifications

  • At least 5-8 years of M&A legal experience at a nationally recognized law firm and/or in-house at a high-growth technology company
  • Experience with public company securities law compliance and SEC reporting
  • Experience with equity compensation matters in the deal context
  • Experience with AI, machine learning, or other emerging technology companies
  • Experience building M&A playbooks, templates, or processes on a lean team
  • Exceptional analytical, drafting, negotiation, and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex legal issues into clear, practical advice
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple transactions and priorities simultaneously
  • An independent self-starter who can drive projects forward with minimal supervision, and collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
  • Role-specific policy: For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco, New York, or Seattle 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.

    Annual Salary: $265,000 to $335,000 USD

    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.

    Questions about this job

    What is the salary for the Corporate Counsel, M&A role at Anthropic?

    Anthropic advertises $265,000 to $335,000 a year for this role.

    Is this a remote, hybrid or office job?

    No, it is an on-site job in New York or California.

    What experience do I need for this Corporate Counsel, M&A job?

    The posting mentions 5 to 8 years of relevant experience and skills such as Machine Learning, Negotiation and Recruiting. Read the full description above for the complete list.

    How do I apply?

    Use the apply button on this page. It takes you to Anthropic's own application form, so your CV goes directly to their hiring team.

    When was this job posted?

    Anthropic published the role on August 27, 2026. We check the employer's job board every day and take this page down when the role closes, so if you can read it, the job was still listed at our last check.

    Source: Anthropic careers page (job-boards.greenhouse.io). Applications go straight to the employer. We check the listing daily and remove it once it closes.

    Required Skills

    Machine Learning Negotiation Recruiting

    🏢 About Anthropic

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    🏢 Company Anthropic
    📍 Location California, USA
    💼 Job Type full-time
    🌐 Work Mode 🏢 On-site
    🏭 Industry Technology
    🗓 Posted Date Aug 27, 2026
    🎯 Experience 5 to 8 years
    📅 Deadline Dec 16, 2034

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