Product Counsel (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA; hybrid role requiring staff to work from the San Francisco office at least 3 days a week. Anthropic's location-based policy expects staff to be in one of its offices at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more.

Annual salary: $265,000–$335,000 USD.

Company

Anthropic is a San Francisco-headquartered public benefit corporation building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

What you will do

• Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, and other cross-functional teams to provide practical legal guidance from early product ideas through launch.
• Review Claude consumer and enterprise product launches, identifying issues early and helping teams find compliant paths forward.
• Advise on subscriptions, pricing, promotions, billing, consumer protection, marketing rules, enterprise readiness, admin controls, and customer commitments.
• Draft and review user-facing terms, disclosures, in-product copy, and marketing claims.
• Coordinate privacy, commercial, IP, safety, and other legal specialists and provide integrated guidance to product partners.
• Build guides, templates, AI-powered workflows, and other self-serve resources while supporting shifting priorities, incidents, and escalations.

Requirements

• Law degree (JD, LLB, or equivalent) and eligibility to meet the local licensing requirements for in-house counsel where based.
• At least 4 years of relevant legal experience with exposure to technology, consumer, or regulated products.
• Experience advising business or product teams directly, rather than only advising other lawyers.
• Working knowledge of at least two of consumer protection, privacy, advertising and marketing law, technology transactions, IP, or regulated industries.
• Curiosity about AI products and ability to learn technical concepts quickly.
• Ability to make clear recommendations with incomplete information and move between assignments as priorities change.
• Clear, concise writing that non-lawyers can act on.
• Openness to feedback and a track record of improving quickly.
• Experience using AI tools in legal work or a strong interest in learning to use them.
• Empathy, a service orientation, and commitment to Anthropic's mission.

Nice to have

• In-house product counsel experience or a secondment with a product team.
• Experience with subscription businesses, promotions, or consumer billing.
• Experience supporting enterprise SaaS or regulated customers such as healthcare or financial services.
• Experience building playbooks, self-serve guidance, or legal automation.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across research, engineering, policy, and business teams focused on beneficial AI.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, and flexible working hours.
• Office-based collaboration with a San Francisco office environment.
• Visa sponsorship is available, although sponsorship cannot be successfully provided for every role and candidate; immigration lawyer support is available.
• Anthropic values diverse perspectives, communication skills, and frequent research discussions.