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

• Coordinate across Corporate Development, Legal, People, and technical leadership, keeping everyone informed, flagging what needs attention, and keeping the process moving.

• Educate deal sponsors and cross functional partners on standard approaches for M&A recruiting, interviewing and processes.

• 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.

• Coordinate across Corporate Development, Legal, People, and technical leadership, keeping everyone informed, flagging what needs attention, and keeping the process moving.

• Be the primary point of contact for scheduling logistics for acquisition-related hiring, navigating complex, confidential scenarios across time zones and multiple stakeholders.

• Keep the trackers, checklists, timelines, and playbooks that keep acquisition coordination organized and consistent, and flag improvements as the function grows.

• Maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information and conversations with discretion.

• Use AI tools (e.g., Claude) as a core part of your daily workflow as we build toward a more automated way of recruiting.

• Take on other high-priority recruiting and operations projects as needed and grow within the role over time.

You may be a good fit if you have

• 3+ 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

Pay Range

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: $120,640 - $145,600 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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.