Legal Program Manager, Compute & Infrastructure

Anthropic; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 285,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

Job summary

Anthropic in Washington, DC seeks an experienced Legal Program Manager to lead contracting for the Compute and Infrastructure team. You will manage high-volume procurement and vendor agreements, build scalable contracting processes, and own the CLM system from intake to signature.

You’ll collaborate with various business units and legal colleagues to streamline contracts, manage post-signature obligations and renewals, and drive continuous improvement in contracting efficiency while leveraging

Qualifications

• Experience in fast-paced tech startups with shifting priorities.
• Proactive in managing complex contractual matters and deadlines.
• Ability to triage requests, track obligations, and pull in legal counsel as needed.
• Strong communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate a high volume of procurement and vendor agreements—NDAs, SOWs, amendments.
• Own contract lifecycle management system design, templates, and approvals.
• Design intake/triage processes and route requests to owners.
• Develop scalable contracting processes to speed infrastructure buildout.
• Provide governance, reporting, and dashboards on contract activity and bottlenecks.
• Partner with Compute & Infrastructure, Product, Finance, Security, and Procurement Ops to align on business goals.
• Deploy AI tooling to scale contracting throughput.

Skills

Contract management

Legal operations

CLM systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven processes

AI tooling in contracting

Vendor negotiations

Documentation & compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Law or related field

Tools

Ironclad

Contract lifecycle management

Job description

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 is seeking an exceptional Legal Program Manager to serve as the operational backbone of contracting for the Compute and Infrastructure team. We'll rely on you to manage a high volume of procurement and vendor agreements — including datacenter colocation, lease, and build-to-suit agreements; hardware, chip, and network-equipment procurement; and construction, facilities, and operations-and-maintenance (O&M) contracts — along with the NDAs, order forms, SOWs, and amendments that surround them. You will build the scalable contracting processes — templates, playbooks, intake and approval workflows, and contract lifecycle management — that let the business move at the speed of Anthropic’s infrastructure buildout. This role owns the system, throughput, and visibility that move every agreement from intake through signature.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate and shepherd a high volume of compute and infrastructure procurement transactions — datacenter colocation, lease, and build-to-suit agreements; hardware, chip, and network-equipment procurement; construction/EPC and facilities/O&M agreements; and the supporting NDAs, order forms, SOWs, and amendments — driving each from intake through signature
• Own and administer the contract lifecycle management system: workflow design and configuration, templates, approval routing, signing and archive and integrity hygiene
• Design and run intake and triage: how requests enter, how they are prioritized, and how they route to the right owner
• Propose and develop scalable solutions to improve contracting efficiency and throughput across the infrastructure vendor base
• Collaborate with business units and legal team members to streamline contract management processes, manage post-signature obligations and renewals across the infrastructure vendor portfolio, identify potential risks, and drive continuous improvement in contract handling efficiency
• Partner closely with the Compute and Infrastructure, Product, Finance, Security, Business Operations, and Procurement Ops teams to achieve key business objectives and deliver strategic, business-minded, and solutions-focused counsel
• Build reporting, dashboards, SLAs, and the metrics that surface turnaround times and bottlenecks across the infrastructure vendor portfolio
• Deploy LLM and AI tooling to scale contracting throughput and reduce manual handling

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience operating in a fast-paced technology startup in which priorities shift rapidly and schedules "move to the left," thriving in this dynamic environment and priding yourself on your adaptability and ability to pivot with speed and grace
• Initiative and autonomy in managing complex contractual matters, effectively prioritizing competing deadlines
• An understanding of what's important in the context of a contract, the organization's mission, and enough contract fluency to triage and route requests, track obligations, and pull in relevant legal counsel
• Excitement to grow with an organization and help shape the culture of the commercial function
• A preference for straightforward, concise explanations over legalese and overwrought drafting
• A knack for identifying and implementing efficient processes and policies
• The ability to thrive as a member of cross-functional teams building frontier technologies, with a desire to develop a deep understanding of the Compute & Infrastructure teams and the datacenter, hardware, and network systems they build and operate
• Comfort operating outside your areas of expertise and in uncharted legal territory
• A "doer" mentality, willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done as a team player who doesn't hesitate to jump in to do work that needs to get done, whether glamorous or not
• Hands-on experience with contract lifecycle management or legal-operations tooling, process design, and working from data, metrics, and dashboards
• Comfort using AI and LLM tools to streamline and scale routine contracting work
• Clearly state that you found the job on GoInhouse.com in your application

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years in contract management, legal operations, or procurement operations, including hands-on experience implementing or administering a contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform; experience supporting infrastructure, datacenter, hardware, construction, or telecom/network procurement and vendor contracting
• Proven ability to collaborate across various organizational levels and functions to facilitate efficient contracting processes and execution while building strong relationships
• Working familiarity with the structure of datacenter, colocation, and lease agreements; hardware and equipment procurement; construction, facilities, and O&M contracts; network and telecom agreements; high-volume, template-driven vendor contracting; and general contract terms
• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
• Motivated self-starter able to multitask and juggle multiple priorities in a dynamic environment
• Authentic integrity and a deep understanding of the importance of ethics in business
• Experience implementing or administering a CLM platform (Ironclad) and standing up reporting and metrics
• The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
• For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
• Annual Salary:$285,000—$340,000 USD

Logistics

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

Minimum years of experience

Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy

Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship

We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

Your safety matters to us.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

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