Discovery Operations Lead, Litigation & Regulatory Anthropic 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.

Anthropic's legal team operates at the frontier of some of the most consequential legal and regulatory questions of our time — from landmark copyright matters to first-of-their-kind AI regulatory frameworks emerging across dozens of jurisdictions simultaneously. As we scale, the volume and complexity of our discovery and information governance obligations are growing rapidly.

We are looking for a Discovery Operations Lead to join our Litigation and Regulatory team and build out Anthropic's discovery operations from the ground up, support active matters, and help drive information governance maturation. This is a unique opportunity to own a critical function at one of the most closely watched companies in the world. You will work hand-in-hand with our litigation and regulatory counsel, outside counsel, discovery vendors, and cross-functional partners such as Security and IT to manage retention, preservation, collection, and production of electronically stored information (ESI) across active matters.

Beyond matter-level support and programmatic development of discovery systems and processes, you will also help execute the development of Anthropic's broader information governance program, including data classification standards and defensible disposal practices that keep pace with a rapidly scaling AI company's evolving data landscape.

The right person for this role will be equal parts technical operator and strategic thinker. You will help write the playbook for a first-in-class discovery and information governance program.

• Design and operate discovery operations across the full EDRM lifecycle (preservation, collection, processing, hosting, review, and production including for novel and AI-specific data types)

• Own the operational design and execution of the legal hold program including custodian identification workflows, hold issuance and tracking, periodic re-notification, custodian acknowledgments, and defensible release

• Stand up and administer the discovery technology stack Relativity One, in-place preservation and collection tooling across Slack, Google Workspace, and internal systems, and supporting analytics and review platforms including configuration, access controls, templates, and reusable work spaces

• Design and document standard operating procedures and playbooks that make discovery work defensible, repeatable, and onboard able as the team scales

• Operate the discovery vendor program selection, onboarding, statements of work, pricing models, SLAs, performance reviews, and continuous improvement across review providers, ALSPs, forensic specialists, and platform vendors

• Serve as a primary day-to-day point of contact between in-house counsel, outside counsel, vendors, and internal technical teams; coordinate matter execution, status, and escalations

• Partner with Security, IT, and product engineering to support Anthropic's data landscape, instrument new data sources for hold and collection, and ensure each ESI source has a governed retention, hold, and disposition path

• Develop and operate the operational layer of Anthropic's information governance program: retention schedule execution, classification rollout, defensible disposition workflows, and data-inventory maintenance in close partnership with the Discovery Lead and information governance stakeholders

• Build the program's measurement and reporting matter status, hold population, data volumes, vendor spend, cycle time, review quality and use it to drive decisions and demonstrate defensibility

• Integrate AI and automation into the EDRM lifecycle: generative-AI-assisted review, advanced analytics, custom Relativity applications, and agentic workflow automation for intake, hold tracking, status reporting, and internal documentation

• Support active litigation, government investigations, and regulatory inquiries as the operational counterpart on the matter team coordinating work streams, managing vendor execution, and surfacing operational risk and cost trade-offs to counsel

• Design and build internal tools to streamline and manage critical discovery workflows (legal holds, preservation, collection, ECA, and production), and develop dashboards that report on data management trends and cross-matter discovery status

• Hands‑on discovery experience across the full EDRM lifecycle, with demonstrated ownership of operations on complex matters in an in‑house legal department, government agency, law firm, or vendor

• A track record of founding or rebuilding discovery operations functions defining the operating model, selecting platforms and vendors, and writing the playbooks that make the work…