Contracts Manager, EMEA

• Join Anthropic's commercial and legal operations team in London, supporting commercial and technology transactions across the EMEA region. • Help review, draft, and negotiate commercial and procurement contracts that support Anthropic's cutting-edge AI systems. • Serve as a key partner translating global legal strategy into regional execution, including triaging regional matters, rolling out process improvements, and running local enablement sessions. • Build scalable contracting processes and collaborate across Product, Sales, Finance, Business Operations, Research, and Procurement teams.

• Have substantive knowledge of software and SaaS agreements, reseller agreements, services agreements, strategic partnerships, and general commercial contract terms. • Independently draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial and procurement contracts. • Have experience managing the full contract lifecycle for technology transactions, sales organisations, and/or partnerships.

• Bring 8+ years of related contract management experience, with at least 5 years supporting technology transactions, sales organisations, and/or partnerships. • Have experience operating in a fast-paced technology startup where priorities shift rapidly. • Have prior experience as part of a global or distributed legal team, partnering with colleagues across regions and aligning local needs with centralised priorities. • Demonstrate a track record of operating with a high degree of autonomy while keeping global stakeholders appropriately informed. • Have strong habits around async communication, proactive status updates, and operating effectively with a remote manager across time zones. • Have a knack for identifying and implementing efficient processes and policies. • Prefer straightforward, concise explanations over legalese and overwrought drafting. • Be comfortable operating outside your areas of expertise and in uncharted legal territory.

• Draft, analyse, negotiate, and complete complex commercial transactions with enterprise customers, vendors, and strategic partners, including IP licensing agreements. • Propose and develop scalable solutions to improve contracting efficiency. • Collaborate with business units and legal team members to streamline contract management processes, identify potential risks, and drive continuous improvement. • Collaborate with Product, Sales, Business Operations, Research, and Procurement teams to achieve key business objectives. • Partner closely with in-region counsel and lead counsel on day-to-day triage of regional legal matters, ensuring workload is prioritised effectively. • Drive the regional rollout of process improvements, policy updates, and programmes initiated from global headquarters, including planning and facilitating local enablement sessions. • Pitch in across other areas of the legal function as a small team supporting big things.

• Receive competitive compensation between £140,000 and £180,000 GBP annually. • Get visa sponsorship where possible — Anthropic retains an immigration lawyer to support this. • Take generous parental leave. • Enjoy generous vacation and flexible working hours. • Optional equity donation matching. • Join the founding EMEA legal operations team at one of the most important AI companies in the world.

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. They want AI to be safe and beneficial for users and society as a whole. The team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. Anthropic is a public benefit corporation offering competitive compensation and benefits.