Tax Transactions and Advisory Director

Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) | San Francisco, CA

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

We are looking for a Tax Transactions and Advisory Director to join our Tax Team  the company pursues an active and growing pipeline of acquisitions, acqui-hires, data center investments, and other strategic transactions, this role will be a key in-house expert for transactional and advisory tax matters. You will be the go-to transactions advisor for our Corporate Development, Legal, and Finance teams, bringing deep transactional tax expertise to complex deal structures from initial evaluation through post-closing integration.

Beyond transactions, this role will serve as a key in-house tax resource across a wide range of strategic and operational tax matters. This is a high-impact, highly-visible role at Anthropic, offering significant ownership and a front-row seat to some of the most consequential transactions and tax planning work happening in AI today. If you're excited to build something meaningful from the ground up at a company working on one of the most important challenges of our time, we'd love to hear from you.

• Lead all tax work streams for acquisitions, mergers, acqui-hires, asset and stock purchases, and corporate reorganizations, including tax due diligence, risk identification, and deal structuring recommendations
• Serve as a trusted in-house tax advisor to Legal, Finance, and business teams on a broad range of tax matters arising outside of formal transactions, including commercial agreements and strategic partnerships
• Act as a cross-functional tax resource for internal stakeholders navigating novel or complex tax questions, escalating to external advisors where appropriate and managing those relationships efficiently
• Partner with Corporate Development on deal pipeline evaluation, providing early-stage tax input to inform go/no-go decisions and deal economics
• Draft and review tax provisions in transaction documents, including purchase agreements, merger agreements, and ancillary deal documents
• Lead post-acquisition tax integration planning, including entity rationalization, intercompany restructuring, and tax attribute analysis
• Advise on tax considerations for data center acquisitions, build-to-suit arrangements, leases, and related infrastructure investments; partner with Finance and Deals teams on tax input to deal economics, including incentives, and credits review; coordinate on indirect tax and transaction tax incentives with relevant team members
• Build and maintain transactions tax playbooks, due diligence checklists, and internal processes

• 10-12 years of tax experience, with significant M&A and transactional tax exposure, including law firm experience (Big Law tax group or Big 4 M&A tax practice)
• JD required; LL.M. in Taxation preferred
• Deep technical expertise in federal and state tax rules governing corporate transactions, including Section 338, Section 368 reorganizations, and asset and stock acquisitions
• Working knowledge of the tax considerations applicable to partnerships, joint ventures, and other collaborative arrangements, including Section 721 contributions, partnership allocations, and the structuring of minority investments and revenue-sharing arrangements
• Experience leading tax due diligence work streams and quantifying tax exposures in transaction contexts
• Track record of drafting and negotiating tax provisions in M&A transaction documents
• Experience advising on post-acquisition integration from a tax perspective, including entity rationalization and intercompany restructuring
• Experience providing general tax advisory support, including advising on commercial contracts, operational matters, and cross-functional tax questions
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex tax issues into clear, actionable…