People Services Partner, Compliance

anthropic; San Francisco, New York, Seattle (CA, NY, WA); Hybrid; USD 212,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a People Services Partner, Compliance to own and scale our HR compliance program. You will lead audits, manage the background check program, and file required reporting while working with People Legal, Payroll, Internal Audit and broader Compliance teams.

This hands-on role requires coordinating with multiple stakeholders across countries to implement scalable, compliant processes and to navigate evolving regulations as Anthropic grows.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in HR/People Ops with a strong compliance foundation.
• Experience building and leading an HR compliance program.
• Experience scaling a global background checks program and reporting.
• Experience with Workday reports and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Manage global background check program and vendor partnerships.
• Own HR compliance governance, controls, and audits.
• Prepare for obligations from new locations and regulations with Legal.
• Maintain an HR compliance calendar and scalable reporting solutions.
• Collaborate with partners across Legal, Payroll, People Systems and Internal Audit.

Skills

HR compliance

Background checks

Workday reports

Cross-functional collab

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Workday

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 hiring a People Services Partner, Compliance. People Services runs the day-to-day operations that keep the employee lifecycle moving, which includes making sure our processes and programs are compliant. We are looking for someone with a strong People Ops foundation, who is excited to take ownership of our existing compliance workstreams and build the program as the company grows.

This is a hands‑on role where you will represent People Services in audits, manage our background check program, and prepare and file required reporting. You will work closely with partners across the company (including People Legal, People Systems, Payroll, Internal Audit, and our broader company Compliance team) to turn compliance requirements into clear, scalable processes.

Key responsibilities

Program management

Work with People Services to create and refine processes across onboarding and the employee lifecycle.

Manage our global background check program, which includes owning our vendor partnership.

Prepare for obligations that come with new locations, headcount thresholds, or new regulations, partnering with Legal to understand them and design solutions.

Manage an HR compliance calendar to track compliance programs and deadlines globally.

Proactively look for ways to streamline and automate the work in your scope, making compliance easy to navigate for our team and our partners.

Audits, reporting, and governance

Support internal and external audits by documenting our controls, gathering evidence, and walking auditors through our processes.

Collaborate with cross‑functional partners on controls that touch multiple teams, ensuring clear roles and responsibilities within these processes.

Prepare and file required government reports, partnering with People Systems to build scalable reporting solutions.

Serve as the People Services point person on relevant policies, reviewing existing ones and collaborating with policy owners on new ones.

Have worked on HR compliance and governance across multiple countries (including the United States)

Have represented People Operations in internal and external audits

Have prepared and filed required government reporting

Communicate clearly with partners, auditors, and employees, flexing your communication style for your audience

Enjoy navigating ambiguity and being the one to help drive clarity

Move quickly without sacrificing quality or introducing risk

Preferred qualifications

• Have 6+ years working in HR/People Ops

Have experience building and leading an HR compliance program

Have experience scaling a global background check program

Have experience managing processes and data in Workday, including building custom Workday reports

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.

$235,000 - $235,000 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.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from under\-represented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage:Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.