Identity & Access Enforcement Lead

Anthropic; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 285,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Flexible working hours

Supportive office environment

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Safeguards Enforcement Analyst to build and execute enforcement workflows that keep our products safe, focusing on access controls and identity verification. You’ll own the policy layer—what we ask users for, when, and on what grounds—and shape policy enforcement so that users can safely interact with our products.

You will work across Legal, Public Policy, and Privacy to ensure proportionate, privacy-preserving enforcement while staying aligned with evolving regulatory

Qualifications

• Experience in trust & safety, integrity, or risk policy work.
• Hands-on operational enforcement experience.
• Subject matter expertise in KYC, identity verification, age or identity assurance, or verification program operations.
• Experience navigating evolving regulatory landscapes (including frameworks like the DSA and GDPR) as design constraints.
• Experience driving cross‑functional initiatives with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Policy partners — especially where safety, privacy, and usability tradeoffs need to be navigated together.
• Comfort using data (SQL or similar tools) to measure what’s working and inform decisions.
• Strong written communication skills, with experience producing clear briefs and recommendations for technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Excellent judgment and the ability to make consistent, defensible calls on ambiguous cases.

Responsibilities

• Set collection policy for identity signals: what we request, in which enforcement states, and what evidence reinstates access
• Improve verification program health — accuracy, appeal coverage, and consistency of outcomes
• Own access policy for hard cases, including geographic restrictions and reseller arrangements
• Run the operational queue for access‑control cases alongside contractor support, authoring playbooks and QA’ing scaled review output
• Work with Legal, Public Policy, and Privacy stakeholders to keep our approach proportionate, privacy‑preserving, and responsive to an evolving regulatory landscape
• Coordinate enforcement consistency with third‑party platform partners
• Keep up to date with emerging AI policy enforcement best practices, and use these to inform our decision‑making and workflows
• Stand up graduated enforcement in practice — verification requests, conditional reinstatement, and appeal pathways that satisfy regulatory requirements for automated decisions

Skills

Trust & safety

Operational experience

KYC / identity verification

Regulatory experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

Written communication

Judgment in ambiguity

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Safeguards Enforcement Analyst to build and execute enforcement workflows that keep our products safe, focusing on access controls and identity verification. You’ll own the policy layer—what we ask users for, when, and on what grounds—and shape policy enforcement so that users can safely interact with our products.

You will work across Legal, Public Policy, and Privacy to ensure proportionate, privacy-preserving enforcement while staying aligned with evolving regulatory