Product Counsel, Safety

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.

As Product Counsel, Safety, you will provide legal support across Anthropic's safety and security functions. You will serve as the first-line legal contact when security, privacy, product functionality, or AI behavior events arise, and will partner with Safeguards (Trust & Safety) and Security teams on policy development, enforcement frameworks, user safety matters, and regulatory compliance and engagement (in coordination with regulatory legal).

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated attorney to grow as a product lawyer and develop counseling skills in a fast moving environment while contributing directly to responsible AI development.

• Serve as first-line legal contact for security, privacy, product functions, and AI behavior events, providing real-time guidance during incident response
• Partner with Safeguards on content policy enforcement, user safety, and misuse investigations and response
• Assess notification obligations under applicable legal frameworks and contractual commitments
• Advise Security on legal requirements for vulnerability handling and threat response
• Coordinate with Security, Privacy, Product, Safeguards, and Communications teams during active incidents
• Draft customer notifications, regulatory filings, and external communications
• Develop and maintain incident response playbooks, templates, and escalation protocols
• Advise on evidence preservation, documentation, and investigation procedures
• Stay current on and analyze emerging AI governance frameworks and regulatory expectations relevant to safety and security as relevant to our evolving product suite

• A JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California preferred)
• At least 3 years of relevant legal experience, including exposure to fast-moving, high-stakes matters (litigation, investigations, regulatory matters, crisis management, or enforcement work)
• Working knowledge of breach notification requirements across multiple jurisdictions
• Technical fluency sufficient to understand system architecture, data flows, and AI model behavior and ability to learn new concepts quickly
• Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder responses to time-sensitive matters
• Strong judgment about risk assessment and decision-making under uncertainty
• Ability to remain calm and effective during high-pressure situations

• Experience with content moderation, platform safety, trust & safety, and consumer protection legal work
• Background in privacy, data protection, or cybersecurity law
• In-house experience at a technology company, or law firm experience advising tech clients on regulatory investigations or enforcement matters
• Familiarity with AI systems, machine learning concepts, or experience advising on novel technology products

Final date to receive applications: 4pm PT on February 9, 2026. Applications will be reviewed after the deadline, and our hiring team plans to begin contacting potential candidates shortly after. We encourage all interested and qualified applicants to submit their materials before this date to ensure full consideration.

Role-specific policy: For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco or New York office at least 3 days a week, though we encourage you to apply even if you might need some flexibility for an interim period of time.

The annual compensation range for this role is below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity and benefits.

$205,000 - $265,000 USD

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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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