Program Specialist, M&A

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic seeks a Recruiting M&A Program Specialist to join the Talent team in San Francisco. You will coordinate interview experiences across Corporate Development, Legal, People, and technical leadership, guiding candidates from first conversation to start date with a high-touch, discreet approach.

You will work in a high-stakes, fast-moving environment and use AI tools like Claude to streamline processes, while supporting acquisition recruiting and related projects over time.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in program management, recruiting coordination or high-volume scheduling, including confidential or executive hiring.
• Experience educating partners on hiring approaches and processes.
• Excellent candidate experience and collaboration with recruiters.
• Experience with confidential or sensitive work requiring discretion.
• Strong organizational skills in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Comfort with AI tools; experience with Claude.
• Interest in Anthropic's mission and M&A support.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate across Corporate Development, Legal, People, and technical leadership to move hires forward.
• Educate sponsors and partners on M&A recruiting approaches and processes.
• Be the primary contact for candidates, delivering a warm, discreet experience through start date.
• Schedule logistics for acquisition-related hiring across time zones and stakeholders.
• Maintain trackers, checklists, timelines, and playbooks for organized coordination.
• Keep information confidential and handle sensitive conversations with discretion.
• Leverage AI tools as part of daily workflow to automate recruiting.
• Grow the role by taking on higher-priority recruiting and operations projects.

Skills

Program management

Recruiting coordination

High-volume scheduling

AI tools (Claude)

Tools

Claude

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 has an ambitious mission with high stakes and tight timelines. In some cases, the talent we need to achieve our vision can't be accessed through traditional recruiting alone. That's where M&A comes in, and this role is what keeps it running smoothly.

We're looking for a Recruiting M&A Program Specialist to join our Talent team and coordinate the interview experience behind our acquisition hiring. You'll be a key point of contact across Corporate Development, Legal, People, and the technical organization, coordinating interviews and guiding candidates and incoming employees from first conversation through to their start date. Your work will be challenging and unique, and it directly supports Anthropic's efforts to remain on the frontier.

Role required to work out of the Anthropic San Francisco Office - Relocation available.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate across Corporate Development, Legal, People, and technical leadership, keeping everyone informed, flagging what needs attention, and keeping the process moving.
• Educate deal sponsors and cross functional partners on standard approaches for M&A recruiting, interviewing and processes.
• Be a primary point of contact for candidates, delivering a warm, high-touch, and discreet experience from first conversation through their start date. Make sure people going through a sensitive transition feel supported and informed at every step.
• Coordinate across Corporate Development, Legal, People, and technical leadership, keeping everyone informed, flagging what needs attention, and keeping the process moving.
• Be the primary point of contact for scheduling logistics for acquisition-related hiring, navigating complex, confidential scenarios across time zones and multiple stakeholders.
• Keep the trackers, checklists, timelines, and playbooks that keep acquisition coordination organized and consistent, and flag improvements as the function grows.
• Maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information and conversations with discretion.
• Use AI tools (e.g., Claude) as a core part of your daily workflow as we build toward a more automated way of recruiting.
• Take on other high-priority recruiting and operations projects as needed and grow within the role over time.

You may be a good fit if you have

• 3+ years of program management, recruiting coordination or high-volume scheduling experience, ideally including confidential, executive, or M&A/acquihire hiring, and familiarity with modern recruiting systems
• Track record of creating, documenting and educating on evolving hiring approaches - proven experience in building and developing these over time.
• A track record of delivering an excellent candidate experience and partnering closely with recruiters
• Experience with confidential or sensitive work where discretion, trust, and sound judgment are essential
• Strong organizational instincts and comfort creating structure in ambiguous, fast-moving situations
• Comfort working efficiently with AI tools; experience with Claude
• A genuine interest in Anthropic's mission and the role M&A plays in supporting it
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Annual Salary

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.

$120,640 — $145,600 USD