M&A Tax Director — Flexible Hours, High‑Impact Deals

Anthropic; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an M&A Tax Director to join our Tax Team. In a high-impact role, you will lead tax workstreams across acquisitions, acqui-hires, data center investments, and joint ventures, partnering with Corporate Development, Legal, and Finance to inform deal economics and post-closing integration.

You will draft tax provisions, quantify tax exposures, and help build transaction playbooks, with significant ownership and strategic influence across the company’s growth initiatives.

Qualifications

• M&A and transactional tax experience at a large firm, Big 4 M&A tax practice, or in-house transactions tax team.
• Strong technical expertise in federal and state tax rules governing corporate transactions.
• Experience running tax due diligence and quantifying tax exposures in transaction contexts.
• Experience drafting and negotiating tax provisions in M&A transaction documents.
• Experience supporting post-acquisition integration from a tax perspective.

Responsibilities

• Lead tax workstreams for acquisitions, mergers, acqui-hires, asset and stock purchases, corporate reorganizations, financing transactions, and minority investments, including tax due diligence, risk identification and quantification, and deal structuring analysis
• Partner with Corporate Development on deal pipeline evaluation, providing early-stage tax input to inform go/no-go decisions and deal economics
• Draft and review tax provisions in transaction documents, including purchase agreements, merger agreements, and ancillary deal documents
• Support post-acquisition tax integration planning, including entity rationalization, intercompany restructuring, and tax attribute analysis
• Advise on tax considerations for data center investments, build-to-suit arrangements, leases, and related infrastructure transactions, and coordinate with relevant team members on incentives, credits, and indirect tax matters
• Advise on the tax structuring of joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and REIT-related investment structures, including real estate and data center joint venture arrangements
• Help build and maintain transactions tax playbooks, due diligence checklists, and internal processes
• Coordinate with the tax compliance and provision teams to ensure clean handoff of closed transactions, including documentation of structure, elections, tax attributes, and reporting positions
• Prepare technical tax memoranda documenting transactions, material tax positions, and risk assessments to support internal sign-off, financial statement audit, and tax return filing positions

Skills

M&A tax

Due diligence

Tax provisions

Intercompany structuring

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

JD

CPA

LL.M./MST

Job description

Anthropic is seeking an M&A Tax Director to join our Tax Team. In a high-impact role, you will lead tax workstreams across acquisitions, acqui-hires, data center investments, and joint ventures, partnering with Corporate Development, Legal, and Finance to inform deal economics and post-closing integration.

You will draft tax provisions, quantify tax exposures, and help build transaction playbooks, with significant ownership and strategic influence across the company’s growth initiatives.