Compliance Governance & Oversight Lead

About the role

The Governance & Oversight pillar is the operational and structural backbone of Integrity & Compliance. It owns the frameworks, policies, controls testing, training, GRC tooling, and reporting that hold the rest of the function together — and that allow Anthropic to demonstrate accountability to employees, customers, regulators, and the public as the company scales.

Key responsibilities

• Set the strategy for compliance governance and oversight at Anthropic, defining how policies, controls, training, and reporting come together into a coherent operating model across the I&C function

• Own the policy lifecycle end-to-end — drafting standards, approval workflows, version control, attestation, and accessibility — and ensure Anthropic's compliance policies are current, coherent, and demonstrably communicated

• Lead selection, implementation, and ongoing administration of the GRC platform that serves as the central system of record for I&C, including risk tracking, control documentation, issue management, and workflow

• Design and run the controls testing and monitoring program across all I&C pillars, partnering with pillar leads to verify controls are operating as intended and to surface gaps before they become issues

• Own the compliance training program, working with subject matter experts across I&C to develop, deliver, and evidence training that meets regulatory requirements and embeds compliance into how the company operates

• Drive issue management across the function — ensuring findings, exceptions, and remediation are documented, owned, escalated where needed, and driven to closure

• Build the metrics, dashboards, and reporting cadences that give the Head of I&C, the broader leadership team and Internal Audit a clear view of program health, key risks, and strategic priorities

• Prepare and present compliance reporting to leadership synthesizing inputs from across pillars into clear narratives

• Coordinate the function's responses to compliance-related due diligence requests from customers, partners, and investors

• Manage the I&C budget and vendor portfolio, providing the administrative foundation for the function's operations

• Build and develop the Governance & Oversight team as the pillar's scope and headcount grow, and embed a culture of practical, well-evidenced compliance across the company

Minimum qualifications

• Significant experience in compliance, risk, internal audit, or a closely related field, including leadership of a compliance operations, governance, or oversight function

• Demonstrated track record building or substantially scaling a compliance program — policies, controls testing, training, GRC tooling, and reporting — end-to-end, ideally from an early stage

• Deep working knowledge of compliance program fundamentals: policy management, training, controls testing, issue management, and program reporting

• Experience selecting, implementing, and operating GRC technology platforms, and using technology to make compliance more effective and less burdensome for the wider organization

• Track record of preparing and presenting compliance reporting to senior leadership, Internal Audit, and/or board-level governance bodies

• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to translate substantive compliance requirements into operating processes that engineering, product, and go-to-market teams will actually adopt

• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across a senior, cross-functional stakeholder group, and to make and defend cross-functional decisions

• Experience building and developing teams

Preferred qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience

• Prior experience at a Big 4 or comparable compliance consulting or advisory professional services firm, in addition to in-house leadership experience

• Experience leading compliance governance at a high-growth technology company, ideally one operating across multiple regulatory regimes

• Exposure to AI-specific compliance considerations and the emerging regulatory landscape for AI

• Experience standing up or transforming a compliance function in a hyper-scaling environment, including building from a blank page

• Direct experience presenting to or supporting Audit Committee or board-level reporting on compliance matters