About the Position

Program Specialist, M&A

San Francisco, CA

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

Program manage recruiting activities across Corporate Development, Legal, People, and technical leadership, keeping everyone informed, bringing solutions on what needs attention, and keeping the process moving.
Educate and enable deal sponsors and cross-functional partners on standard approaches for M&A recruiting, interviewing, and processes.
Operationalize the playbooks and processes that keep acquisition hiring organized and consistent, and partner closely with recruiting systems and analytics to evolve the program over time.
Scope and run the recruiting workstream for each deal, from first conversation through start dates.
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.
Use AI tools (e.g., Claude) as a core part of your daily workflow as we build toward a more automated way of recruiting.
Maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information and conversations with discretion.
Take on other high-priority recruiting and operations projects as needed and grow within the role over time.

Requirements

Core Skills:
- 4+ 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.

We Offer

Competitive compensation range: $120,640-$145,600 USD annually.
Comprehensive benefits package.
Optional equity donation matching.
Generous vacation and parental leave.
Flexible working hours.
Lovely office space in San Francisco.

About the Company

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.

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!

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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.

Program Specialist, M&A

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