Legal Program Manager, Contracts and Governance
San Francisco, CA
Posted 16d ago
Remote Work Policy
On-site
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About the job
Anthropic is seeking an experienced Legal Program Manager to join our Commercial Legal team, focused on contracts and governance. This role is central to Anthropic’s compliance efforts on the commercial side, embedding deeply in sell-side contracting processes and helping build the controls, workflows, and governance infrastructure that revenue-generating activities require as the company matures. You will sit at the intersection of Legal, Finance, Revenue Operations, Sales, Partnerships, Engineering, and Accounting, ensuring commercial contracting practices meet governance and compliance standards, with an emphasis on revenue recognition. This is a high-visibility role where you will operate as a player-coach, managing and improving contracting processes while building scalable systems, templates, and playbooks.
Responsibilities
- Continuously improve the end-to-end commercial contracting lifecycle for sell-side agreements, ensuring alignment with revenue recognition requirements.
- Partner with Finance and Accounting to ensure commercial contract terms support accurate revenue recognition.
- Develop and maintain contract management workflows, templates, approval matrices, and playbooks.
- Build and operate contract governance controls tied to compliance requirements.
- Maintain disclosure-support processes for commercial contracts, including tracking material agreements and risks.
- Design and enforce contract execution standards to support SOX compliance and internal controls.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure commercial commitments are properly captured, classified, and reported.
- Deploy LLM and AI tooling to scale contracting throughput, surface governance exceptions, and reduce manual handling.
Requirements
- 8-10 years of experience in legal program management, legal operations, contracts management, or commercial legal support, preferably in a technology or SaaS environment.
- Deep, practical knowledge of sell-side commercial contracting processes, including SaaS, subscription, and enterprise licensing agreements.
- Strong ability to read, interpret, and analyze commercial contracts, with a thorough understanding of legal requirements, risk allocation, and compliance obligations.
- Working familiarity with revenue recognition principles (ASC 606) and their impact on contract terms.
- Experience building or significantly improving contracting workflows, templates, approval processes, or contract lifecycle management systems.
- Demonstrated ability to partner cross-functionally with Sales, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, and other business teams.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and drive accountability.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex concepts into clear guidance.
- Sound judgment and the ability to proactively identify and escalate contract risks, governance gaps, and compliance issues.
- Comfort using AI and LLM tools to streamline and scale routine contracting work.