Legal Program Manager, Compute & Infrastructure

Anthropic is seeking an exceptional Legal Program Manager to serve as the operational backbone of contracting for the Compute and Infrastructure team. This role manages a high volume of procurement and vendor agreements—including datacenter colocation, lease, and build-to-suit agreements; hardware, chip, and network-equipment procurement; and construction, facilities, and O&M contracts—along with supporting NDAs, order forms, SOWs, and amendments. The role builds scalable contracting processes (templates, playbooks, intake/approval workflows, contract lifecycle management) and owns the system, throughput, and visibility that move agreements from intake through signature.

• Coordinate and shepherd high-volume compute and infrastructure procurement transactions from intake through signature.
• Own and administer the contract lifecycle management system: workflow design, templates, approval routing, signing, archive, and integrity hygiene.
• Design and run intake and triage processes.
• Propose and develop scalable solutions to improve contracting efficiency and throughput.
• Collaborate with business units and legal team members to streamline contract management, manage post-signature obligations and renewals, and identify risks.
• Partner with Compute & Infrastructure, Product, Finance, Security, Business Operations, and Procurement Ops teams.
• Build reporting, dashboards, SLAs, and metrics to surface turnaround times and bottlenecks.
• Deploy LLM and AI tooling to scale contracting throughput and reduce manual handling.

• Experience operating in a fast-paced technology startup with shifting priorities.
• Initiative and autonomy in managing complex contractual matters.
• Understanding of contract context, mission, and enough contract fluency to triage and route requests.
• Excitement to grow and shape the culture of the commercial function.
• Preference for straightforward, concise explanations.
• Knack for identifying and implementing efficient processes and policies.
• Ability to thrive in cross-functional teams building frontier technologies.
• Comfort operating outside areas of expertise and in uncharted legal territory.
• Hands-on experience with contract lifecycle management or legal-operations tooling, process design, and working from data, metrics, and dashboards.
• Comfort using AI and LLM tools to streamline and scale routine contracting work.

• 10+ years in contract management, legal operations, or procurement operations, including hands-on experience implementing or administering a CLM platform.
• Experience supporting infrastructure, datacenter, hardware, construction, or telecom/network procurement and vendor contracting.
• Proven ability to collaborate across various organizational levels and functions.
• Working familiarity with datacenter, colocation, lease agreements, hardware/equipment procurement, construction/facilities/O&M contracts, network/telecom agreements, and high-volume template-driven vendor contracting.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Motivated self-starter able to multitask and juggle multiple priorities.
• Authentic integrity and deep understanding of ethics in business.
• Experience implementing or administering a CLM platform (Ironclad) and standing up reporting and metrics.

Annual Salary: $285,000—$340,000 USD

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination. Required field of study: relevant to the role. Minimum years of experience: correlated with internal job level requirements. Location-based hybrid policy: all staff expected in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! We make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and retain an immigration lawyer to help.