Corporate Finance & Strategy, Public Benefit

San Francisco · USD 325,000-425,000 / year · 10+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Sep 29, 2026

At a glance

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 seeking a Finance & Strategy partner focused on Public Benefit and Public Policy, working closely with our Global Affairs and Public Benefit teams.
You will be the finance lead for how Anthropic plans, funds, and reports its giving and policy work.
This is a build role where budgets, funding structures, and reporting are still being designed.

Serve as the primary finance partner to Public Benefit and Global Affairs leaders, working with program teams and partner functions on every financial aspect of their work
Lead annual planning, in-year forecasting, and multi-year planning across the giving and policy portfolio, translating strategy into clear priorities, tradeoffs, and resource-allocation decisions
Design and run stage-gated funding: tranche releases, graduation criteria, and tracking against them
Lead the financial planning of large or strategic commitments, such as grants, loans, foundation funding, and in-kind contributions, with Legal, Tax, Corp Development and Accounting
Bring funding recommendations and tradeoffs to executive leadership
Work with program leaders to define how outcomes are measured where revenue is not the yardstick
Set up spend categorization and reporting, including project codes, workflows, and external reporting, and build the processes and tools so reporting scales with the program

Experience in FP&A or strategic finance, ideally at a high-growth company or foundation, with meaningful time supporting philanthropy, social impact, or policy work
Experience in grants, philanthropy, or impact-investing finance
Advanced financial modeling skills in spreadsheets, with experience building budgets, forecasts, and multi-year plans where few exist yet
Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining complex financial concepts to program leaders, policy staff, external partners, and executives
Ability to push back constructively with data and clear reasoning
Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action, including building processes while the work is still being defined
A commitment to Anthropic's mission to build safe, beneficial AI systems
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
A field of study relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Location-based hybrid policy requiring staff to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time, with some roles potentially requiring more time in offices.