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 is seeking a Regulatory Counsel to lead our legal work on online content regulation globally, and to interface with EU regulators on content regulation and AI regulation. Our international footprint covers some material regulatory regimes affecting Anthropic's business, including the EU AI Act, Digital Services Act, the UK Online Safety Act, and the rapidly evolving online-content regimes emerging across APAC and other international markets.
You will provide upfront regulatory-readiness counselling as new laws are developed and implemented, ongoing day-to-day advice once those laws are in force, and lead the non-contentious side of Anthropic's engagement with regulators. You will sit at the intersection of novel legal questions, fast-moving product development, and an unusually engaged regulatory environment, and will work cross-functionally with Legal, Compliance, Safeguards, Security, Product and Operations teams.
Key responsibilities
- Serve as Anthropic's global in-house regulatory counsel for online content regulation — including the DSA, the UK Online Safety Act, Australia's Online Safety Act, and emerging APAC and other international regimes — covering applicability analysis, readiness, day-to-day advice, and compliance-programme design and maintenance.
- Support the non-contentious side of Anthropic's regulatory engagement with European regulators on content regulation and AI regulations — including with the European AI Office, the European Commission, national AI competent authorities, Digital Services Coordinators, Ofcom, and their counterparts internationally — including notifications, structured dialogues, RFIs, transparency reporting, and codes-of-practice processes.
- Provide upfront regulatory-readiness counselling on emerging legislation: track legislative and supervisory developments across international markets, assess applicability and impact on Anthropic's business and products, identify implementation risks, and design compliance approaches well in advance of obligations taking effect
- Provide ongoing advice once laws are in force: counsel legal, compliance and business teams on day-to-day regulatory questions, translate complex requirements into practical guidance, and help build and maintain scalable compliance programmes
- Partner with Frontier AI Regulatory Counsel on EU AI Act engagement, translating Anthropic's frontier-AI compliance positions into regulator-facing submissions and bringing regulator expectations back into our substantive work
- Partner closely with Anthropic's Policy Legal team to support pre-legislative engagement, identify implementation challenges, and translate policy positions into legally-grounded regulatory submissions
- Work with colleagues across Legal and Compliance to design and operationalise governance, documentation, risk-management and reporting frameworks required by international content laws
- Coordinate with regional and global counterparts to ensure a consistent global regulatory posture while respecting jurisdiction-specific requirements
Minimum qualifications
- Qualification to practise law in at least one EU member state or in the UK, with good standing
- Substantive depth in international content regulation (DSA, UK Online Safety Act, or similar)
- Hands-on experience advising a technology business (in-house or at a leading law firm) on emerging regulatory regimes, including translating ambiguous or evolving rules into practical, defensible compliance approaches
- Direct experience engaging with regulators or supervisory bodies in a non-contentious capacity (e.g. the European AI Office, European Commission, national AI competent authorities, Digital Services Coordinators, Ofcom, or equivalent international supervisors)
- Strong understanding of how EU law-making and supervisory practice actually works, including delegated and implementing acts, guidelines, codes of practice, and the interplay between EU- and member-state-level enforcement
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to communicate complex legal concepts clearly to technical, policy, product and business audiences
- Willingness to travel internationally as needed to support regulatory engagement
Preferred qualifications
- 10–12 years of regulatory legal experience working at a frontier AI company, large online platform, or other high-growth technology business operating under DSA, OSA, EU AI Act or equivalent international regimes
- Experience contributing to industry codes of practice, regulator-led structured dialogues, or trade association engagement on AI or content regulation
- Familiarity with adjacent regimes that frequently intersect with content regulation internationally, e.g. privacy, copyright, product safety, and consumer protection
- A track record of building constructive long-term relationships with regulators
- Comfort with ambiguity and a track record of developing novel compliance approaches in areas without established precedent
- A passion for responsible AI development and for getting the balance right between innovation and appropriate safeguards
Role-specific policy: For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our Dublin office at least 3 days a week, though we encourage you to apply even if you might need some flexibility for an interim period of time.
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.
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