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.
We are looking for an exceptional senior People Partner based in the San Francisco Bay Area to support our critical Research teams. This role will be a critical member of the People Partner team, working on key HR projects in alignment with our partners across Compensation, Benefits, Recruiting, and others while providing excellent coaching and strategic support to senior leaders and managers across Research functions who are deeply engaged with creating safe AGI that benefits humanity. You will help build out HR policies and strategies that meet your client’s unique needs, and act as a trusted leader and guide on a wide range of employee-related topics.
Key responsibilitiesAct as a trusted advisor and coach to leaders in Research
Provide support to employees and managers on all human resource-related topics throughout their lifecycle at Anthropic in partnership with other People team experts (e.g. Benefits, Compensation, etc.)
Work closely with management to create a culture of high performance based on our values and team culture while helping ensure that performance management and employee relations issues are managed appropriately
Act as a partner and liaison with specialist teams (e.g. Benefits, Compensation, etc.), leadership, and finance, to help Anthropic continue to implement top-tier, scalable programs and policies to attract and retain and grow outstanding talent at Anthropic
Work on cross-functional projects with other People Partners and partners in specialist teams to enable and grow our Ants (e.g. Manager training, etc.)
Have experience operating at a fast-growing Tech company in HR, and fluency with employment law and best practices in North America
Have worked at a tech company, start-up, or a similarly fast-paced environment
Have a minimum of 6+ years experience working in People Partner, People Operations, Employee Relations, Recruiting, or other closely related functions
Have experience working with AI focused Research and Engineering teams
Care deeply when it comes to helping and supporting a diverse set of people at all levels of an organization, excelling in supporting employees and managers to do their best work
Have proven experience and skill sets in providing confidential, practical support and are trained in topics like conflict resolution
Have strong working knowledge of human-resource-related best practices and are able to effectively implement these in a culturally appropriate fashion
Be a pragmatic problem-solver and enjoy developing creative solutions
Thrive in building and scaling processes, and enjoy identifying and setting up new systems at a quickly growing company
Care about ensuring that advanced AI systems are developed safely, and have a deep curiosity about artificial intelligence and its potential applications
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.
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 underrepresented 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.
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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.
Skills Required
- Experience operating in a fast-growing technology company in HR
- Fluency with employment law and HR best practices in North America
- Experience working at a technology company, startup, or similarly fast-paced environment
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
- At least 6 years of experience in People Partner, People Operations, Employee Relations, Recruiting, or closely related functions
- Experience supporting AI-focused Research and Engineering teams
- Ability to support diverse employees and managers at all organizational levels
- Proven ability to provide confidential, practical support and training in topics such as conflict resolution
- Strong knowledge of human-resource-related best practices and ability to implement them appropriately across cultures
- Pragmatic problem-solving and creative solution development skills
- Experience building and scaling processes and implementing new systems in a rapidly growing company
- Interest in artificial intelligence and its potential applications, including safe development of advanced AI systems
Anthropic Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Anthropic and has not been reviewed or approved by Anthropic.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage for employees and dependents is described as comprehensive across medical, dental, and vision, alongside robust mental-health resources. Feedback suggests this breadth, paired with life and income protection, is a standout element of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-building support includes inclusive fertility benefits and an extended paid parental leave policy. Feedback suggests these programs are positioned as company‑wide and accessible rather than one‑off perks.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Everyday support spans wellness/time‑saver stipends, education and home‑office stipends, commuter benefits, daily meals/snacks, and relocation assistance. Feedback suggests these perks meaningfully supplement core pay and healthcare.
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What We Do
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
