Tax Director, Provision & Compliance

Anthropic's Tax team is hiring a Tax Director to own the company's global income tax provision and US income tax compliance function. This is a core operational leadership role: run the quarterly and annual ASC 740 close, manage the co-sourced compliance program, and build the processes, controls, and team that keep both scaling with the company. Anthropic is deploying capital into compute and data center infrastructure at a scale and pace with few precedents, alongside an active program of acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic investments — every one of those transactions lands in the provision and the returns.

• Own the quarterly and annual worldwide income tax provision: current and deferred computations, effective tax rate reconciliation, deferred tax inventory and valuation allowance assessments, stock-based compensation, uncertain tax positions, and return-to-provision true-ups
• Own tax journal entries, account reconciliations, income tax footnote and disclosures, and supporting workpapers and SOX controls; manage the financial statement audit relationship with Big 4 auditors
• Coordinate international components of the provision and drive continuous improvement in close speed and quality
• Manage the US federal and state income tax compliance program with co-sourced Big 4 providers: returns, estimated payments and extensions, elections and disclosures, and the compliance calendar
• Own cash tax forecasting and support tax authority notices, examinations, and audit defense
• Drive automation and tax technology adoption across provision and compliance processes, including AI tooling
• Own tax purchase price allocation workpapers for acquisitions — taxable vs. nontaxable characterization, ASC 805 opening balance sheet deferred taxes, goodwill component analysis — plus tax diligence, structuring, and integration
• Analyze data center and compute infrastructure arrangements — lease classification, sale-leasebacks, Section 467 rent schedules, build-out cost recovery — and the financing structures around them
• Prepare and review technical memos documenting positions for auditors and leadership, and model the cash tax and effective tax rate consequences of proposed structures
• Mentor and develop tax team members and manage outside advisors on opinions, studies, and valuations

• Substantial experience managing a corporate tax function in the multinational software and technology industry, including hands-on experience running income tax provision and compliance processes, with a combination of Big 4 public accounting and in-house tax department experience
• Owned the full ASC 740 provision cycle at a multinational company — not just reviewed pieces of it — including deferred taxes, valuation allowance judgments, uncertain tax positions, footnote and disclosures, SOX controls, and auditor management
• Managed a US federal and state income tax compliance program at scale, including co-sourced arrangements with Big 4 providers
• Familiarity and hands-on experience with complex M&A transactions — tax purchase price allocations, ASC 805 opening balance sheet accounting, diligence and structuring — and ideally experience with infrastructure leases, build-outs, and the financing arrangements behind them
• Write clear, well-organized technical memos that hold up with Big 4 auditors, and can explain the same issue in plain terms to non-tax partners
• Hold a CPA; a Master's in Taxation or LLM is a plus

• Familiarity and experience with data center or similar capital-intensive infrastructure transactions — hyperscaler-scale compute, energy, or telecom deals, project finance, or joint venture structures
• Experience analyzing warrants, convertible instruments, or other equity components embedded in commercial and supply agreements, and debt-equity analysis for intercompany and third-party financing
• Pre-IPO readiness or public company reporting experience, and an interest in applying AI tools to tax workflows

Annual salary: $230,000—$300,000 USD.

Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a field relevant to the role. Location-based hybrid policy: all staff expected in one of Anthropic's offices at least 25% of the time. Visa sponsorship is offered; Anthropic retains an immigration lawyer to help.