Discovery Operations Lead: EDRM & AI Governance

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is hiring a Discovery Technical Operations Specialist to scale discovery operations and govern ESI across active matters. You will partner with legal teams, security, and IT to manage preservation, collection, and production of data, including AI-specific data types.

The role combines technical operations with project management to implement scalable discovery processes, retention, and defensible disposal practices as Anthropic grows its information governance program.

Qualifications

• Hands-on discovery experience across the full EDRM lifecycle, with demonstrated ownership of operations on complex matters in an in-house legal department, government agency, law firm, or vendor.
• A track record of supporting complex discovery operations.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate discovery operations across the full EDRM lifecycle (preservation, collection, processing, hosting, review, and production including for novel and AI-specific data types)
• Support the operational design and execution of the legal hold program including custodian identification workflows, hold issuance and tracking, periodic re-notification, custodian acknowledgments, and defensible release
• Support and improve the discovery technology stack including RelativityOne, in-place preservation and collection tooling across Slack, Google Workspace, and internal systems, and supporting analytics and review platforms including configuration, access controls, templates, and reusable workspaces
• Partner with discovery team, in-house counsel, outside counsel, vendors, and internal technical teams; coordinate matter execution, status, and escalations
• Partner with Security, IT, and product engineering to support Anthropic's data landscape, instrument new data sources for hold and collection, and ensure each ESI source has a governed retention, hold, and disposition path
• Improve and support the operational layer of Anthropic's information governance program: retention schedule execution, classification rollout, defensible disposition workflows, and data-inventory maintenance in close partnership with the Discovery Lead and information governance stakeholders
• Integrate AI and automation into the EDRM lifecycle: generative-AI-assisted review, advanced analytics, custom Relativity applications, and agentic workflow automation for intake, hold tracking, status reporting, and internal documentation
• Support active litigation, government investigations, and regulatory inquiries as the operational counterpart on the matter team coordinating workstreams, managing vendor execution, and surfacing operational risk and cost trade-offs to counsel
• Design and build internal tools to streamline and manage critical discovery workflows (legal holds, preservation, collection, ECA, and production), and develop dashboards that report on data management trends and cross-matter discovery status

Skills

Discovery operations

Cross-functional coordination

Tools

RelativityOne

Job description

Anthropic is hiring a Discovery Technical Operations Specialist to scale discovery operations and govern ESI across active matters. You will partner with legal teams, security, and IT to manage preservation, collection, and production of data, including AI-specific data types.

The role combines technical operations with project management to implement scalable discovery processes, retention, and defensible disposal practices as Anthropic grows its information governance program.