Tax Principal, Business Advisory

San Francisco, CASenior$300,000 - $370,0008-12 years

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're seeking an experienced Tax Principal to serve as a trusted business advisor and deep technical resource across our tax function. In this role, you'll partner directly with business, product, and go-to-market teams to advise on the tax implications of strategic initiatives, new products, commercial arrangements, and market expansion — translating sophisticated technical analysis into clear, decision-ready guidance that helps the business move quickly and confidently. You'll also assist with audit defense and dispute management efforts and conduct technical research and documentation for complex tax issues across the tax team.

You'll navigate the evolving digital economy tax landscape, including digital services taxes (DSTs), Pillar 2, and emerging AI-specific tax regulations, while ensuring compliance across multiple jurisdictions. You'll be a go-to expert who can tackle sophisticated tax questions, prepare audit-quality memoranda, and translate technical concepts for business stakeholders. This role is critical to ensuring we have bulletproof tax positions, robust risk management processes, and comprehensive documentation as we face heightened scrutiny from auditors, tax authorities, and stakeholders in the rapidly evolving AI industry.

Key Responsibilities

Business Advisory & Transaction Support

Serve as a strategic tax advisor to business, product, partnerships, and go-to-market teams on new initiatives, product launches, pricing and billing structures, and commercial arrangements
Provide practical, business-oriented tax guidance on strategic transactions, including infrastructure and compute arrangements, as the company scales
Review and negotiate tax provisions in commercial contracts, cloud service agreements, and partnership arrangements
Advise on the tax considerations of international expansion and new market entry, partnering with cross-functional teams from early planning through execution
Collaborate with Legal, Finance, and business teams on cross-functional matters, translating technical positions into actionable recommendations

Technical Research & Documentation

Research and document significant technical tax issues, including equity compensation and operational tax questions
Prepare comprehensive tax technical memoranda meeting rigorous audit standards
Conduct in-depth research on complex federal and international tax issues using primary sources (Code, regulations, case law, legislative history)
Draft technical memoranda supporting material tax positions and planning initiatives
Maintain tax technical research library and documentation standards
Stay current on tax law developments and assess impact on Anthropic's operations

Tax Compliance & Risk Assessment

Partner with tax team members to assist with driving tax audit defense and dispute resolution efforts, including preparing audit defense files, coordinating responses to tax authority inquiries, and managing relationships during examinations and appeals processes
Assist with quarterly and annual tax provision processes (FIN 48/ASC 740 compliance), analyze and document uncertain tax positions and related reserves, and support external auditor discussions regarding tax provision matters

Required Qualifications

JD or LLM in Taxation from an accredited law school
Exceptional tax technical research and writing skills
Deep expertise in US federal income tax research methodology and primary source materials
Experience preparing technical tax memoranda for audit or IRS defense purposes
Proven ability to translate complex tax technical concepts into clear, well-documented analysis and practical business guidance
Demonstrated success partnering with business teams as a strategic advisor, not just a technical reviewer
Meticulous attention to detail and commitment to technical excellence

Preferred Qualifications

8–12 years of tax experience with significant Big 4 and/or large law firm background
Experience with tax technical software/databases (Bloomberg Tax, RIA Checkpoint, Westlaw)
Experience with equity compensation tax matters (Section 83, 409A, 422, etc.)
Knowledge of international tax matters (Subpart F, GILTI, transfer pricing, treaty analysis)
Experience in technology or AI/software industry
Prior in-house experience at a high-growth technology company
Familiarity with public company tax operations and reporting requirements

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:

$300,000—$370,000 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.

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