IP Counsel, Transactions

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, focused on creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The company is a quickly growing group of researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

We are seeking an experienced and strategic transactional attorney to join the IP team within our growing legal department. In this role, you will be responsible for the IP side of Anthropic's transactions, partnering with the M&A and commercial counsel who lead each deal. You will conduct IP diligence and negotiate IP terms for acquisitions and investments, help advise on IP terms in complex commercial and research agreements, and drive the playbooks and processes that make our processes scalable.

• Lead the IP workstream on acquisitions and strategic investments, from diligence through letters of intent, definitive agreements, closing, and integration, alongside our M&A counsel and outside counsel.
• Partner with commercial counsel on the IP aspects of complex enterprise, partnership, research collaboration, and vendor agreements, advising on and negotiating IP terms.
• Serve as the primary point of contact on IP terms for commercial legal and other colleagues, and help train them so they can resolve more IP questions on their own.
• Drive the playbooks, templates, and processes that let a lean team handle IP terms across a high volume of deals.
• Contribute to broader IP strategy, particularly where transactions intersect with open source, trade secrets, patents, or new business models.

• 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.
• Have substantial experience leading IP due diligence and negotiating IP terms in technology M&A.
• Have first-chair experience negotiating IP provisions in complex commercial technology agreements, such as licenses, joint development agreements, and services agreements.
• Have the ability to communicate IP risks and tradeoffs clearly to business leaders and non-specialist lawyers, and to exercise sound judgment about when to hold a position.
• Have strong working knowledge of open source licensing, employee and contractor IP assignment obligations, and trade secret protection.

• 10+ years of transactional IP experience at a nationally recognized law firm, a technology company, or both.
• Experience building negotiation playbooks, templates, or diligence processes that other lawyers relied on.
• Experience with AI, machine learning, data licensing, or other emerging technology.
• Curiosity about AI and a commitment to its responsible development.

Annual Salary: $335,000—$385,000 USD. Anthropic offers 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.

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.

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