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 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 seeking an experienced IP Legal Specialist to join our growing legal team and serve as the operational backbone of our intellectual property program. In this role, you will partner closely with our IP attorneys and outside counsel to help manage our trademark, domain, and patent portfolios, lead our online brand protection efforts, and ensure flawless execution of our IP protection strategies. This is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned IP professional who thrives on organization, wants to make a significant impact at a cutting-edge AI company, and is aligned with Anthropic’s mission. San Francisco Bay Area strongly preferred.
Responsibilities:
- Lead Anthropic's online brand protection program, managing relationships with external vendors, reviewing, actioning, and tracking a heavy volume of infringements, and escalating enforcement matters to IP attorneys and outside counsel where appropriate
- Manage global trademark portfolio administration, including application filings, office action response coordination, and portfolio maintenance across multiple jurisdictions, in coordination with IP attorneys and outside counsel
- Support patent administration, including processing invention disclosures, coordinating patent application filings, gathering inventor signatures on assignments and other patent prosecution documents, managing annuity payments, and maintaining patent records
- Maintain and manage IP docketing systems, ensuring all IP assets are properly tracked and monitored
- Conduct preliminary trademark clearance searches to support new product launches, features, and brand initiatives
- Manage domain name portfolio, including new registrations, renewals, and transfers, and other domain-related initiatives
- Organize and maintain IP documentation and records to support due diligence activities and strategic initiatives
You may be a good fit if you have:
- 10+ years of IP operations specialist experience with demonstrated deep expertise in both trademark and patent portfolio management
- Strong proficiency with IP management software systems (Symphony or similar platforms)
- Substantial experience with brand protection programs and enforcement activities, including online infringement monitoring and takedown coordination
- Proven track record of managing complex, multi-jurisdictional IP portfolios
- Extensive experience coordinating with and managing relationships with outside counsel firms and external vendors domestically and internationally
- Excellent organizational skills, meticulous attention to detail, and ability to juggle multiple complex projects simultaneously
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with attorneys, business teams, and external vendors at all levels
- Self-starter mentality with ability to work independently and proactively identify and solve problems
- A sense of humor
Strong candidates may have:
- Deep knowledge of international filing procedures (Madrid Protocol, PCT, Paris Convention)
- Experience in AI, machine learning, or related cutting-edge technologies
- Background in high-growth technology companies or startups
- Experience with contract management and legal operations tools
- Project management experience or certification
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.
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.
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
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