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M&A Tax Director

Anthropic· Finance
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA / New York City, NY / Seattle, WA)$230k - $300kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

M&A Tax Director at Anthropic to lead and manage tax workstreams across deal lifecycle (acquisitions, acqui-hires, data center investments, JVs, licensing/financing) and support broader strategic and operational tax matters. Build function from the ground up with cross-functional collaboration across Corporate Development, Legal, and Finance.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage tax workstreams for acquisitions, mergers, acqui-hires, asset and stock purchases, corporate reorganizations, financing transactions, and minority investments, including tax due diligence, risk identification and quantification, and deal structuring analysis
  • 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
  • Support post-acquisition tax integration planning, including entity rationalization, intercompany restructuring, and tax attribute analysis
  • Advise on tax considerations for data center investments, build-to-suit arrangements, leases, and related infrastructure transactions, and coordinate with relevant team members on incentives, credits, and indirect tax matters
  • Advise on the tax structuring of joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and REIT-related investment structures, including real estate and data center joint venture arrangements
  • Help build and maintain transactions tax playbooks, due diligence checklists, and internal processes
  • Coordinate with the tax compliance and provision teams to ensure clean handoff of closed transactions, including documentation of structure, elections, tax attributes, and reporting positions
  • Prepare technical tax memoranda documenting transactions, material tax positions, and risk assessments to support internal sign-off, financial statement audit, and tax return filing positions

Qualifications

  • JD or CPA
  • M&A and transactional tax experience gained at a large law firm, Big 4 M&A tax practice, or in-house transactions tax team
  • Strong technical expertise in federal and state tax rules governing corporate transactions, including Section 338, Section 368 reorganizations, and asset and stock acquisitions
  • Experience running tax due diligence workstreams and quantifying tax exposures in transaction contexts
  • Experience drafting and negotiating tax provisions in M&A transaction documents
  • Experience supporting post-acquisition integration from a tax perspective, including entity rationalization and intercompany restructuring

Skills

Required:M&A tax planning and executionTax diligenceTax provisions drafting

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a collaborative office culture
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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