[Contract] Recruiter, Legal

Anthropic
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NYPosted 1 March 2026

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2 class="heading"><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p> <p>Anthropic is seeking an experienced contract Legal Recruiter to join our GA recruiting team on a contract basis. In this role, you’ll partner closely with leaders across our Legal organization that shapes how Anthropic operates and delivers on its mission.</p> <p>This role requires someone who can assess not just legal domain expertise, but also alignment with our values and the adaptability required to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You’ll need to hit the ground running — we’re looking for a contractor who can own a pipeline from day one with minimal ramp.</p> <h2 class="heading"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h2> <ul> <li> <p>Lead end-to-end recruiting for Legal roles across the organization, including commercial counsel, product counsel, regulatory/privacy counsel, litigation, paralegals, and legal operations</p> </li> <li> <p>Develop and execute strategic recruiting plans, including law firm and in-house competitive mapping, targeted sourcing, and building long-term talent pipelines for hard-to-fill legal specialties</p> </li> <li> <p>Build trusted partnerships with Legal leadership to understand business priorities, team structures, ideal candidate profiles, and required competencies across different legal practice areas</p> </li> <li> <p>Create exceptional candidate experiences that showcase Anthropic’s mission, growth trajectory, and the unique opportunity for legal professionals to work at the frontier of AI</p> </li> <li> <p>Design and implement scalable recruiting processes that effectively assess legal domain expertise, business judgment, and cultural alignment</p> </li> <li> <p>Track recruiting metrics and use data to identify bottlenecks, optimize processes, and maintain a high-quality hiring bar</p> </li> <li> <p>Coach hiring managers on recruiting best practices, structured interview techniques, and strategies for building diverse, high-performing legal teams</p> </li> </ul> <h2 class="heading"><strong>You may be a good fit if you:</strong></h2> <ul> <li> <p>Have 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience with meaningful exposure to legal hiring and understand the legal talent market</p> </li> <li> <p>Are comfortable working as a contractor in ambiguous, high-growth environments — you self-direct, ramp quickly, and help hiring teams build structure rather than waiting for it</p> </li> <li> <p>Have strong stakeholder management skills — you can share examples of frameworks you’ve built that drive hiring while coaching legal hiring managers to improve their recruiting</p> </li> <li> <p>Are highly organized with strong attention to detail — you stay on top of data integrity and maintain regular touch points with candidates and hiring managers</p> </li> <li> <p>Are comfortable analyzing recruiting data and can connect key metrics to monitor recruiting health and maintain a great hiring experience</p> </li> <li> <p>Are passionate about AI’s potential to positively impact the world while understanding its risks and limitations</p> </li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. </p> <p>For sales roles, th ... (truncated, view full listing at source)