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Commercial Legal Specialist – Operations and Brand
| Company | Anthropic |
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| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $130000 – $170000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- Experience operating in a fast-paced technology startup in which priorities shift rapidly and schedules “move to the left.”
- Strong project management skills with the ability to define clear workflows, set milestones, and track progress across multiple workstreams.
- Excited to grow with an organization and help shape the culture of the commercial function.
- Prefer straightforward, concise explanations to legalese and overwrought drafting.
- A knack for identifying and implementing efficient processes and policies.
- Thrive as a member of cross-functional teams building frontier technologies and want to develop a deep understanding of our technical teams.
- Comfortable operating outside your areas of expertise and in uncharted legal territory.
- A “doer” and willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done, whether the work is glamorous or not.
Responsibilities
- Draft, analyze, negotiate and complete commercial transactions with third-party vendors, content providers, and marketing and branding partners, including SOWs, SaaS agreements, Content Access Agreements, and Sponsorship agreements.
- Develop and maintain a centralized repository of contract templates, playbooks, and negotiation guidelines.
- Manage and maintain access to and use of our contract management system.
- Serve as primary point of contact for commercial contracting process, responding to inquiries and developing expertise to guide stakeholders through contracting workflows.
- Coordinate across Product, Sales, Finance, Business Operations, Research, and Procurement teams to ensure compliance with contracting requirements and develop policies/workflows to scale contracting process.
- Maintain commercial terms posted on company website and coordinate updates to such terms with the Commercial Legal team.
- Identify process improvement opportunities and lead implementation of efficiency initiatives.
- Support ad-hoc legal projects as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
- 3-5 years of related contract management experience (including reading and drafting contracts) or project management experience supporting a legal function.
- Experience with contract lifecycle management (CLM) systems and legal operations technology.
- Exceptional organizational skills with meticulous attention to detail.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
- Strong project management skills, including the ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and deliver quality results.
- Proactive and solutions-oriented approach to identifying, recommending, and implementing process improvements within the legal department.
- Strong team player mindset with a genuine interest in technology development and AI, who excels in collaborative, fast-paced environments.
