Risk & Insurance Specialist
San Francisco · USD 180,000-230,000 / year · 8-12 years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 15, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8-12 years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco
- Salary
- USD 180,000-230,000 / year · Base salary
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available
About Anthropic
- 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.
About the role
- Anthropic's Business Risk & Insurance (BRI) team, part of Treasury, safeguards the company's balance sheet, people and physical assets.
- As a Risk & Insurance Specialist, you'll build operational excellence across contracts, claims, and day-to-day insurance operations, using AI and automation to streamline processes wherever you can.
- You'll work closely with Compute, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Security, Product and Payroll to spot emerging risks early, help structure global insurance programs, support our risk-financing strategy and drive loss prevention.
Responsibilities
- Insurance review of contracts: Review insurance and indemnity requirements in customer, vendor, lease, and compute agreements, and advise Legal and business partners on compliant, practical positions.
- Insurance operations: Manage claims intake and tracking, certificates of insurance, broker coordination, and policy administration. Build a data warehouse / repository and repeatable processes as volume scales.
- Data gathering and reporting: Collect and maintain exposure data (property values, payroll, revenue, headcount, etc.) for renewals, audits, and underwriting submissions.
- Actuarial and quantitative analysis: Support limit-adequacy, loss, and retention analyses to inform program structure and decisions.
- Captive operations: Support captive formation and ongoing operations, including fronting and reinsurance coordination.
- Automation: Identify and implement ways to automate manual insurance workflows using AI and workflow tools.
- Cross-functional support: Partner with Compute, Finance, Legal, and Payroll on insurance questions across the business.
Requirements
- Experience in insurance, corporate risk management, brokerage, underwriting, or risk consulting.
- Hands-on experience supporting a multi-line commercial insurance program (property, casualty, cyber/tech E&O, D&O/management liability, and similar).
- 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
Preferred qualifications
- 8–12 years in insurance, corporate risk management, brokerage, underwriting, or risk consulting
- At least 4 years on the corporate (buyer) side, or in a broker or carrier role serving corporate clients
- Experience at, or insuring, a technology company or other fast-growing, complex organization
- Property insurance experience, including large or complex property, construction, or data center exposures
- Captive insurance experience (formation, management, fronting, or reinsurance)
- Experience insuring emerging technology risks, such as AI or technology liability and cyber
- Background at a major broker, carrier, or large technology company risk team
- Actuarial training or credentials, or experience with actuarial analysis
Benefits
- competitive compensation and benefits
- optional equity donation matching
- generous vacation and parental leave
- flexible working hours
- lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues
Workplace
- Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
Skills
- SQL
- Python