Location: San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY. Hybrid policy: staff are expected to work from one of the offices at least 25% of the time.

Annual salary: $1–$2 USD.

Company

Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems designed to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Manage end-to-end responses to domestic and foreign law enforcement and government requests for user data, including subpoenas, court orders, warrants, preservation letters, and emergency disclosure requests.
• Scope, retrieve, coordinate, and produce data in collaboration with counsel and internal stakeholders.
• Handle civil third-party subpoenas, preservation demands, MLATs, letters rogatory, and cross-border escalations.
• Maintain knowledge of where user data resides and operate internal data retrieval tooling.
• Run and improve the law enforcement response process, intake queue, tracking, reporting, and transparency reporting.
• Partner with Trust and Safety, Security, Privacy, Engineering, outside counsel, and in-house counsel on investigations, objections, challenges, and legal matters.

Requirements

• Experience in legal operations, business or operations management, or a paralegal role in an in-house legal department or similar environment.
• Direct front-line experience handling law enforcement or government requests for user data, including subpoenas, court orders, warrants, preservation letters, and emergency disclosure requests.
• Working knowledge of the legal framework for government access to user data, including the Stored Communications Act, MLATs, and other foreign and cross-border request mechanisms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, and discretion when handling confidential legal matters under time pressure.
• Strong project management skills, including prioritization, deadline management, and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience owning an intake, queue, or docketing process end to end, including escalation decisions and rigorous tracking.
• Comfort operating and improving trackers, spreadsheets, forms, aliases, and simple automations directly.
• A proactive, solutions-oriented approach to identifying and implementing legal process improvements.
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a field relevant to the role.

Nice to have

• 5+ years of experience in legal operations, business or operations management, or an in-house legal paralegal role.
• 2+ years of experience at a high-growth technology company with exposure to emerging-technology legal matters.
• Experience building or scaling a law enforcement response process or managing legal intake in a growing company.
• Critical and creative thinking, adaptability, and practical problem-solving for complex legal issues.
• Familiarity with Asana, Trello, Jira, or similar legal project management software.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, cross-functional environment focused on high-impact AI research and trustworthy AI systems.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, and flexible working hours.
• Anthropic sponsors visas and makes reasonable efforts to support visa applications, although sponsorship is not guaranteed for every role or candidate.
• Office-based collaboration is combined with a location-based hybrid policy.

Hiring process

• Applicants should review Anthropic’s policy on using AI during the application process.
• Legitimate recruiter communications come from @anthropic.com addresses or identify vetted recruiting agencies; recruiters will never request money, fees, or banking information before the first day.