Senior Compliance Program Manager, Political Law

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Compliance Program Manager to build and run the political law compliance program supporting the corporate PAC, political giving, and preclearance processes, with the potential to extend to lobbying registrations. You will design workflows, registers, controls, and oversee external counsel and vendors.

You will partner with Policy Legal and Corporate Compliance, manage day-to-day operations, ensure coverage of gifts, ethics, conflicts of interest,

Responsibilities

• Own the political contributions preclearance program: intake, registered persons, jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction screening against live and prospective public-sector business, recordkeeping, and periodic reconciliation
• Support corporate PAC compliance operations with Policy, Finance and outside counsel – restricted-class eligibility controls, review workflows, FEC reporting oversight, and reconciliations
• Maintain the corporate political giving log and vetting workflow for candidates, committees, 527s and C4s; integrate pay-to-play triggers into contract intake for public-sector deals
• Depending on scope, support or oversee lobbying compliance: registrations, deadlines and filings with outside firms
• Manage outside political law counsel and compliance vendors – scoping, inputs, quality, timeliness and budgeting, advise what sits in-house vs outside
• Run gifts and hospitality reviews for events with public officials; apply federal, state and local rules alongside anti-corruption standards
• Review conflicts of interest, outside business activity and gifts/hospitality; maintain post-government-employment and recusal tracker
• Build and deliver training, quick-reference guidance and intake how-tos for Policy, GTM and leadership; keep policies current as footprint changes
• Serve as product owner for AI-assisted intake, screening and case-management workflows; define requirements, run testing, decide automation vs human review, report metrics to leadership

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's Integrity & Compliance function is building the systems that let us scale responsibly as our products reach more people, more enterprises, and more governments. Corporate Compliance is a key pillar of that function, covering anti-bribery and anti-corruption, conflicts of interest, gifts and hospitality, outside activities, the Code of Conduct, and related employee-conduct matters.

As Senior Compliance Program Manager, you will build and run Anthropic's political law compliance program - the operating infrastructure behind our corporate PAC, corporate political giving, state and local pay-to-play preclearance, and the gift and ethics rules governing our interactions with public officials. As the program develops, the role may also extend to oversight of lobbying registration and reporting. You'll own the program end to end: designing the workflows, registers and controls, doing the work directly where it belongs in-house, and directing and quality-checking outside political law counsel and compliance vendors where we use them. You'll be the day-to-day compliance partner to our Policy and Government Affairs teams, working in close partnership with Policy Legal, who own the substantive legal advice, and with the rest of Corporate Compliance on the anti-corruption side of government engagement.

Because we run lean, you may support certain workstreams in our broader corporate compliance program - gifts and hospitality, conflicts of interest, outside business activities and related day-to-day matters - and help design the AI-assisted workflows that let a small team cover a large surface area.

This is a builder's role. We're looking for someone who has run political law compliance programs hands-on, is equally comfortable doing the work and managing outside firms who do it, always knows where every preclearance request and filing stands, and can turn fifty-state complexity into simple processes the business will actually use.

Key responsibilities

• Own the political contributions preclearance program: intake, covered-persons register, jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction pay-to-play screening against live and prospective public-sector business, recordkeeping, and periodic reconciliation

• Support corporate PAC compliance operations in partnership with Policy, Finance and outside counsel - restricted-class eligibility controls, solicitation review workflow, FEC reporting oversight, and reconciliations

• Maintain the corporate political giving log and vetting workflow for candidate, committee, 527 and c4 contributions, and integrate pay-to-play triggers into contract intake for public-sector deals

• Depending on how the program is scoped, support or take on lobbying compliance oversight: keeping a consolidated view of registrations, deadlines and filing status, and working with the outside firms that prepare filings

• Manage outside political law counsel and compliance vendors supporting these workstreams - scoping, inputs, quality, timeliness and budget - and recommend over time what should sit in-house versus outside

• Run gifts and hospitality review for events and interactions involving public officials, applying federal, state and local gift and ethics rules alongside our anti-corruption standards; disposition routine matters and elevate edge cases

• Review and disposition conflicts of interest, outside business activity and gifts and hospitality matters across the broader corporate compliance queue; help maintain the post-government-employment and recusal tracker

• Build and deliver training, quick-reference guidance and intake how-tos for Policy, GTM and leadership; keep policies and procedures current as the footprint changes

• Serve as product owner for AI-assisted intake, screening and case-management workflows in your areas - define requirements, run testing, decide what is automated versus human-reviewed, and report program metrics to leadership