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Senior Compliance Program Manager, Political Law

Anthropic· Legal
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY), Hybrid (Washington, DC)$255k - $270kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior role responsible for building and running Anthropic's political law compliance program, including corporate PAC, corporate political giving, pay-to-play preclearance, gifts and ethics rules, and potential lobbying compliance oversight. Partners with Policy Legal and Corporate Compliance, may extend to lobbying registration and reporting, and supervises outside counsel and vendors.

Responsibilities

  • Own the political contributions preclearance program: intake, covered-persons register, jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction pay-to-play screening against live and prospective public-sector business, recordkeeping, and periodic reconciliation
  • Support corporate PAC compliance operations in partnership with Policy, Finance and outside counsel — restricted-class eligibility controls, solicitation review workflow, FEC reporting oversight, and reconciliations
  • Maintain the corporate political giving log and vetting workflow for candidate, committee, 527 and c4 contributions, and integrate pay-to-play triggers into contract intake for public-sector deals
  • Depending on how the program is scoped, support or take on lobbying compliance oversight: keeping a consolidated view of registrations, deadlines and filing status, and working with the outside firms that prepare filings
  • Manage outside political law counsel and compliance vendors supporting these workstreams — scoping, inputs, quality, timeliness and budget — and recommend over time what should sit in-house versus outside
  • Run gifts and hospitality review for events and interactions involving public officials, applying federal, state and local gift and ethics rules alongside our anti-corruption standards; disposition routine matters and escalate edge cases
  • Review and disposition conflicts of interest, outside business activity and gifts and hospitality matters across the broader corporate compliance queue; help maintain the post-government-employment and recusal tracker
  • Build and deliver training, quick-reference guidance and intake how-tos for Policy, GTM and leadership; keep policies and procedures current as the footprint changes
  • Serve as product owner for AI-assisted intake, screening and case-management workflows in your areas — define requirements, run testing, decide what is automated versus human-reviewed, and report program metrics to leadership
  • Spot legal questions early and route them to Policy Legal or outside counsel with the facts assembled; keep I&C, Legal and outside counsel calibrated on risk

Qualifications

  • Hands-on ownership of political law compliance programs — corporate PAC, campaign finance, pay-to-play preclearance and covered-persons tracking, lobbying registration and reporting, government gift and ethics rules — or a closely comparable multi-jurisdiction regulatory program
  • Track record building a program, not just operating one — designing preclearance or disclosure workflows, registers, filing calendars and controls from scratch or through a major redesign
  • Fluent enough to do the work directly and experienced enough to manage outside counsel and compliance vendors doing it — scoping, feeding inputs, checking quality, holding deadlines
  • Working fluency in the federal framework (FECA/FEC, LDA/HLOGA, House and Senate gift rules) and the shape of state and local variation; knows when a question is a legal call and hands it off cleanly
  • Strong project management and cross-functional execution with Policy/Government Affairs, Legal, Finance and executive stakeholders; clear, brief, business-usable writing
  • Sound judgment and discretion handling politically and personally sensitive information

Skills

Required:Political law program managementRegulatory cross-jurisdiction knowledgeStakeholder collaborationProject management
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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

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