Privacy Counsel

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · San Francisco · USD 265,000-335,000 / year · 8+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Sep 22, 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.

Anthropic is seeking a Privacy Counsel to join the Legal team to counsel on complex privacy issues and build processes addressing data protection in a global context.
This role involves working at the intersection of novel legal questions, product development, and regulatory environments while partnering with cross-functional teams.

Counsel product, research and engineering teams across model and product lifecycles.
Translate complex technical architecture into clear, actionable risk advice.
Deliver integrated guidance on safety, security and data protection.
Lead privacy on strategic deals and partnerships.
Negotiate privacy and data protection terms in enterprise, platform and partnership commercial agreements.
Draft and negotiate DPAs, BAAs, data sharing agreements and cross-border transfer terms.
Lead privacy diligence on mergers and acquisitions.
Support corporate governance.
Collaborate with counsel and privacy colleagues to develop well-reasoned positions.

JD from an accredited law school.
Active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
Hands-on experience advising a technology business on privacy and data protection.
Experience drafting and negotiating data protection agreements.
Working knowledge of key global privacy laws including Americas, EEA, and APAC.
Ability to read and engage with technical documentation such as system designs and architecture diagrams.
Excellent legal writing skills.

At least 8 years of privacy and data protection legal experience.
Deep familiarity with software and model development and architecture.
Proven ability to build privacy processes, playbooks and templates that scale.
Direct engagement with privacy regulators.
Privacy and data protection work on mergers, acquisitions, and similar transactions.
Background advising safety, security or trust and safety teams.

Expectation to work from San Francisco or New York office at least 3 days a week.