Security GRC Specialist, International Compliance

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

As part of the Anthropic security department, the compliance team owns understanding security and AI safety expectations, as established by regulators, customers and (nascent) industry norms (which we also seek to influence). The compliance team uses this understanding to provide direction to internal partners on the priorities of security and safety requirements they must meet. The compliance team assures regulators and customers that those expectations are met by earning security credentials and responding to direct inquiry about Anthropics security program from auditors, customers and partners. 

This opportunity is unique, as we work to secure today’s most novel and valuable asset types, we must build a new kind of compliance program, assuring the safety of artificial intelligence capabilities

Responsibilities:

• Lead compliance strategy and execution for international markets, with particular focus on EU regulations (GDPR, NIS2, AI Act, DORA) and other regional requirements
• Serve as primary point of contact for international customers, regulators, and partners regarding security and compliance inquiries
• Adapt global compliance frameworks to meet region-specific requirements while maintaining consistency with Anthropic's overall security posture
• Understand how Anthropic's security and privacy capabilities across major cloud platforms implement common frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, CSA CCM, and SOC 2)
• Build scalable audit management processes and documentation systems that will support future expansion to additional geographies and compliance frameworks
• Write, update and enact policies capturing security, privacy, and AI safety requirements.
• Maintain and enhance Anthropic's system of security controls through audit readiness, recordkeeping, and cross-functional communication

You May Be A Good Fit If You:

• Have 8+ years of progressive experience in audit and compliance roles, with direct ownership of certification/attestation projects across multiple jurisdictions
• Have successfully managed compliance programs for international expansion, including navigating regulatory differences across regions
• Have worked in cloud-native environments and understand security and privacy considerations for multi-cloud architectures
• Can translate complex compliance requirements into actionable workstreams for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Demonstrate ability to engage confidently with international customers, partners, and regulators in written and verbal communications
• Have built common controls frameworks or GRC systems that scaled with organizational growth
• Write clear and useful security and privacy documentation for both external and internal audiences.
• Thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments where you'll need to build processes from scratch
• Are comfortable organizing time-bounded task management of delegated work streams across a diverse organization
• Are energized by being the subject matter expert who educates the organization on new compliance requirements

Strong Candidates May Also Have Experience With:

• Bring familiarity with APAC, UK, or other regional security and privacy requirements
• Have worked in AI/ML companies and understand unique security considerations for model development and deployment
• Bring experience from high-growth technology companies managing rapid compliance expansion
• Have some experience implementing automated enforcement of security controls (i.e., compliance as code)
• Possess relevant certifications (CISA, CRISC, CISM, CISSP, or ISO 27001 Lead Auditor/Implementer)

Candidates Need Not Have:

• Done everything on this list before—we value learning agility and willingness to tackle novel compliance challenges in the AI space

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. 

The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.

Annual Salary:€200.000—€255.000 EUR

Logistics

• Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 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.

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