Senior Compliance Program Manager, Political Law
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC · San Francisco · USD 255,000-270,000 / year · 7+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Sep 25, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 7+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC · San Francisco
- Salary
- USD 255,000-270,000 / 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 Integrity & Compliance function is building the systems that let the company scale responsibly as products reach more people, enterprises, and governments.
- As Senior Compliance Program Manager, you will build and run Anthropic's political law compliance program — the operating infrastructure behind the corporate PAC, corporate political giving, state and local pay-to-play preclearance, and gift and ethics rules.
- Because the team runs lean, you may also support certain workstreams in the broader corporate compliance program and help design AI-assisted workflows.
Responsibilities
- Own the political contributions preclearance program: intake, covered-persons register, jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction pay-to-play screening against live and prospective public-sector business, recordkeeping, and periodic reconciliation.
- Support corporate PAC compliance operations in partnership with Policy, Finance and outside counsel — restricted-class eligibility controls, solicitation review workflow, FEC reporting oversight, and reconciliations.
- Maintain the corporate political giving log and vetting workflow for candidate, committee, 527 and c4 contributions, and integrate pay-to-play triggers into contract intake for public-sector deals.
- Support or take on lobbying compliance oversight: keeping a consolidated view of registrations, deadlines and filing status, and working with the outside firms that prepare filings.
- Manage outside political law counsel and compliance vendors supporting these workstreams — scoping, inputs, quality, timeliness and budget — and recommend over time what should sit in-house versus outside.
- Run gifts and hospitality review for events and interactions involving public officials, applying federal, state and local gift and ethics rules alongside anti-corruption standards; disposition routine matters and escalate edge cases.
- Review and disposition conflicts of interest, outside business activity and gifts and hospitality matters across the broader corporate compliance queue; help maintain the post-government-employment and recusal tracker.
- Build and deliver training, quick-reference guidance and intake how-tos for Policy, GTM and leadership; keep policies and procedures current as the footprint changes.
- Serve as product owner for AI-assisted intake, screening and case-management workflows in your areas — define requirements, run testing, decide what is automated versus human-reviewed, and report program metrics to leadership.
- Spot legal questions early and route them to Policy Legal or outside counsel with the facts assembled; keep I&C, Legal and outside counsel calibrated on risk.
Requirements
- Hands-on ownership of political law compliance programs — corporate PAC, campaign finance, pay-to-play preclearance and covered-persons tracking, lobbying registration and reporting, government gift and ethics rules — or a closely comparable multi-jurisdiction regulatory program.
- Track record building a program, not just operating one — designing preclearance or disclosure workflows, registers, filing calendars and controls from scratch or through a major redesign.
- Fluent enough to do the work directly and experienced enough to manage outside counsel and compliance vendors doing it — scoping, feeding inputs, checking quality, holding deadlines.
- Working fluency in the federal framework (FECA/FEC, LDA/HLOGA, House and Senate gift rules) and the shape of state and local variation; knows when a question is a legal call and hands it off cleanly.
- Strong project management and cross-functional execution with Policy/Government Affairs, Legal, Finance and executive stakeholders; clear, brief, business-usable writing.
- Sound judgment and discretion handling politically and personally sensitive information.
- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
- Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
Preferred qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in compliance program management
- Experience in a corporate government affairs compliance function, a political law practice or compliance vendor, or a financial-services pay-to-play program (SEC Rule 206(4)-5, MSRB G-37, CFTC)
- Range across the broader corporate compliance portfolio — gifts and hospitality, conflicts of interest, outside activities, anti-corruption — and appetite to learn what you haven't done yet
- Exposure to non-US lobbying transparency regimes (EU Transparency Register, German Lobby register, Irish Regulation of Lobbying Act, UK)
- Hands-on with compliance tooling (case management, GRC, disclosure platforms, workflow automation) and real interest in using AI to run compliance work better
- Experience at a high-growth or technology company, or otherwise operating lean without large-team infrastructure
- Relevant certification (e.g., CCEP) or paralegal/JD background is a plus, not a requirement; this is a program role, not a counsel role
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Competitive benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Office space in which to collaborate with colleagues
Workplace
- Location-based hybrid policy: currently expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require more time in offices.
- Offices located in San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY, and Washington, DC.
Skills
- FECA
- FEC
- LDA
- HLOGA
- House And Senate Gift Rules
- SEC Rule 206(4)-5
- MSRB G-37
- CFTC
- EU Transparency Register
- German Lobby Register
- Irish Regulation Of Lobbying Act
- GRC
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- Case Management
- Workflow Automation
- Disclosure Platforms
