Anthropic

Tax Transactions and Advisory Director

Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) | San Francisco, CA Full Time

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

We are looking for a Tax Transactions and Advisory Director to join our Tax Team at Anthropic. As the company pursues an active and growing pipeline of acquisitions, acqui-hires, data center investments, and other strategic transactions, this role will be a key in-house expert for transactional and advisory tax matters. You will be the go-to transactions advisor for our Corporate Development, Legal, and Finance teams, bringing deep transactional tax expertise to complex deal structures from initial evaluation through post-closing integration. Beyond transactions, this role will serve as a key in-house tax resource across a wide range of strategic and operational tax matters. This is a high-impact, highly-visible role at Anthropic, offering significant ownership and a front-row seat to some of the most consequential transactions and tax planning work happening in AI today. If you're excited to build something meaningful from the ground up at a company working on one of the most important challenges of our time, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead all tax workstreams for acquisitions, mergers, acqui-hires, asset and stock purchases, and corporate reorganizations, including tax due diligence, risk identification, and deal structuring recommendations
  • Serve as a trusted in-house tax advisor to Legal, Finance, and business teams on a broad range of tax matters arising outside of formal transactions, including commercial agreements and strategic partnerships
  • Act as a cross-functional tax resource for internal stakeholders navigating novel or complex tax questions, escalating to external advisors where appropriate and managing those relationships efficiently
  • Partner with Corporate Development on deal pipeline evaluation, providing early-stage tax input to inform go/no-go decisions and deal economics
  • Draft and review tax provisions in transaction documents, including purchase agreements, merger agreements, and ancillary deal documents
  • Lead post-acquisition tax integration planning, including entity rationalization, intercompany restructuring, and tax attribute analysis
  • Advise on tax considerations for data center acquisitions, build-to-suit arrangements, leases, and related infrastructure investments; partner with Finance and Deals teams on tax input to deal economics, including incentives, and credits review; coordinate on indirect tax and transaction tax incentives with relevant team members
  • Build and maintain transactions tax playbooks, due diligence checklists, and internal processes 

You may be a good fit if you have:

  • 10-12 years of tax experience, with significant M&A and transactional tax exposure, including law firm experience (Big Law tax group or Big 4 M&A tax practice)
  • JD required; LL.M. in Taxation preferred
  • Deep technical expertise in federal and state tax rules governing corporate transactions, including Section 338, Section 368 reorganizations, and asset and stock acquisitions
  • Working knowledge of the tax considerations applicable to partnerships, joint ventures, and other collaborative arrangements, including Section 721 contributions, partnership allocations, and the structuring of minority investments and revenue-sharing arrangements
  • Experience leading tax due diligence workstreams and quantifying tax exposures in transaction contexts
  • Track record of drafting and negotiating tax provisions in M&A transaction documents
  • Experience advising on post-acquisition integration from a tax perspective, including entity rationalization and intercompany restructuring
  • Experience providing general tax advisory support, including advising on commercial contracts, operational matters, and cross-functional tax questions
  • Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex tax issues into clear, actionable guidance for Legal, Finance, and Corporate Development partners
  • Comfort with ambiguity and a track record of building processes from scratch in fast-paced environments
  • Passion for Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems

Strong candidates may also have:

  • Tax experience at a high-growth technology company
  • Experience with data center acquisitions, infrastructure transactions, or real estate tax considerations
  • Knowledge of state and local tax (SALT) implications of transactions
  • Experience with equity compensation tax issues in the context of acquisitions and acqui-hires
  • Exposure to international tax aspects of cross-border acquisitions
  • Experience supporting corporate development teams on deal pipeline evaluation and early-stage tax modeling

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.

Annual Salary:
$230,000$300,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

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