Tax Transactions and Advisory Director

Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) | San Francisco, CA

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.

We are looking for a Tax Transactions and Advisory Director to join our Tax Team  the company pursues an active and growing pipeline of acquisitions, acqui‑hires, data center investments, and other strategic transactions, this role will be a key in‑house expert for transactional and advisory tax matters. You will be the go‑to transactions advisor for our Corporate Development, Legal, and Finance teams, bringing deep transactional tax expertise to complex deal structures from initial evaluation through post‑closing integration.

Beyond transactions, this role will serve as a key in‑house tax resource across a wide range of strategic and operational tax matters. This is a high‑impact, highly‑visible role at Anthropic, offering significant ownership and a front‑row seat to some of the most consequential transactions and tax planning work happening in AI today. If you’re excited to build something meaningful from the ground up at a company working on one of the most important challenges of our time, we’d love to hear from you.

• Lead all tax work streams for acquisitions, mergers, acqui‑hires, asset and stock purchases, and corporate reorganizations, including tax due diligence, risk identification, and deal structuring recommendations
• Serve as a trusted in‑house tax advisor to Legal, Finance, and business teams on a broad range of tax matters arising outside of formal transactions, including commercial agreements and strategic partnerships
• Act as a cross‑functional tax resource for internal stakeholders navigating novel or complex tax questions, escalating to external advisors where appropriate and managing those relationships efficiently
• 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
• Lead post‑acquisition tax integration planning, including entity rationalization, intercompany restructuring, and tax attribute analysis
• Advise on tax considerations for data center acquisitions, build‑to‑suit arrangements, leases, and related infrastructure investments; partner with Finance and Deals teams on tax input to deal economics, including incentives, and credits review; coordinate on indirect tax and transaction tax incentives with relevant team members
• Build and maintain transactions tax playbooks, due diligence checklists, and internal processes

• 10‑12 years of tax experience, with significant M&A and transactional tax exposure, including law firm experience (Big Law tax group or Big 4 M&A tax practice)
• JD required; LL.M. in Taxation preferred
• Deep technical expertise in federal and state tax rules governing corporate transactions, including Section 338, Section 368 reorganizations, and asset and stock acquisitions
• Working knowledge of the tax considerations applicable to partnerships, joint ventures, and other collaborative arrangements, including Section 721 contributions, partnership allocations, and the structuring of minority investments and revenue‑sharing arrangements
• Experience leading tax due diligence work streams and quantifying tax exposures in transaction contexts
• Track record of drafting and negotiating tax provisions in M&A transaction documents
• Experience advising on post‑acquisition integration from a tax perspective, including entity rationalization and intercompany restructuring
• Experience providing general tax advisory support, including advising on commercial contracts, operational matters, and cross‑functional tax questions
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex tax issues into clear, actionable…