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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. Anthropic's Legal Operations team builds the systems, workflows, and tools that let our legal team operate at the speed of the company. We've made significant investments in tooling and automation — and now the challenge is keeping that work coordinated, visible, and actually used. As a Legal Operations Specialist, Tooling & Enablement, you'll sit at the intersection of three things: keeping our tooling work organized and moving, partnering with the team on getting tools into the legal team’s hands, and contributing directly to technical builds. The right balance across these will depend on what you bring — we're open to someone who leans toward the technical side and can think through solutions end-to-end, as well as someone who leans toward coordination and enablement with meaningful technical contribution. What's non-negotiable: you need to be genuinely comfortable with technology, curious about AI, and able to hold your own in a technical conversation. Above all else, you want to solve hard problems with a human-centric approach that thoughtfully weaves together a technical solution.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate the legal team's AI tooling roadmap — maintaining visibility into what's in progress, tracking timelines across multiple concurrent workstreams, and communicating status to stakeholders
- Triage incoming tooling requests, assess complexity and scope, and route work appropriately — handling straightforward builds yourself and flagging those that need deeper technical review
- Build no-code and low-code solutions end-to-end: Claude.ai Projects, AppSheet apps, Slack workflows, and similar tools that solve real pain points without requiring deployment infrastructure
- Partner with the team on AI adoption efforts — contributing to training materials, documentation, and user guides as new tools ship
- Support the legal team onboarding process and maintain onboarding content as our tooling evolves
- Track adoption signals and surface patterns: what's being used, what isn't, and what that tells us about where to focus
You May Be a Good Fit If You
- Have at least 4–7 years of experience in legal operations, legal technology, or a technical operations role
- Are comfortable keeping multiple projects organized and visible simultaneously — you can track dependencies, flag risks early, and keep stakeholders informed without being asked
- Are comfortable building lightweight technical solutions — Claude Projects, no-code apps, Slack automations — and know how to scope what's appropriate for DIY versus what needs engineering input
- Have worked alongside teams building and shipping tools, and understand what it takes to get a new workflow actually adopted
- Lead with curiosity — you ask good questions, want to understand how things work, and are honest when you don't know something
- Bring empathy to the work: you understand that change is hard, especially for busy lawyers, and you meet people where they are rather than where you wish they were
- Are collaborative and low-ego — you'll flex into adjacent work as the team grows and don't protect scope at the expense of outcomes
- Have enough of a sense of humor to keep the work enjoyable, even when it's complex
Strong Candidates May Also Have
- Experience in legal operations at a law firm, in-house legal department, or legal technology company
- Hands-on experience with Claude, Claude Code, or MCP integrations
- A track record of building or contributing to training programs or onboarding processes in a technical environment
- Familiarity with change management in professional services environments, where skepticism about new tools is real and earned
- Experience with tools like AppSheet, Tines, Zapier, or similar no-code/low-code platforms
Role-specific Policy
For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco 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. The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary
$170,000—$220,000 USD
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.
Your safety matters to us.
To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
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.

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. Anthropic's Legal Operations team builds the systems, workflows, and tools that let our legal team operate at the speed of the company. We've made significant investments in tooling and automation — and now the challenge is keeping that work coordinated, visible, and actually used. As a Legal Operations Specialist, Tooling & Enablement, you'll sit at the intersection of three things: keeping our tooling work organized and moving, partnering with the team on getting tools into the legal team’s hands, and contributing directly to technical builds. The right balance across these will depend on what you bring — we're open to someone who leans toward the technical side and can think through solutions end-to-end, as well as someone who leans toward coordination and enablement with meaningful technical contribution. What's non-negotiable: you need to be genuinely comfortable with technology, curious about AI, and able to hold your own in a technical conversation. Above all else, you want to solve hard problems with a human-centric approach that thoughtfully weaves together a technical solution.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate the legal team's AI tooling roadmap — maintaining visibility into what's in progress, tracking timelines across multiple concurrent workstreams, and communicating status to stakeholders
- Triage incoming tooling requests, assess complexity and scope, and route work appropriately — handling straightforward builds yourself and flagging those that need deeper technical review
- Build no-code and low-code solutions end-to-end: Claude.ai Projects, AppSheet apps, Slack workflows, and similar tools that solve real pain points without requiring deployment infrastructure
- Partner with the team on AI adoption efforts — contributing to training materials, documentation, and user guides as new tools ship
- Support the legal team onboarding process and maintain onboarding content as our tooling evolves
- Track adoption signals and surface patterns: what's being used, what isn't, and what that tells us about where to focus
You May Be a Good Fit If You
- Have at least 4–7 years of experience in legal operations, legal technology, or a technical operations role
- Are comfortable keeping multiple projects organized and visible simultaneously — you can track dependencies, flag risks early, and keep stakeholders informed without being asked
- Are comfortable building lightweight technical solutions — Claude Projects, no-code apps, Slack automations — and know how to scope what's appropriate for DIY versus what needs engineering input
- Have worked alongside teams building and shipping tools, and understand what it takes to get a new workflow actually adopted
- Lead with curiosity — you ask good questions, want to understand how things work, and are honest when you don't know something
- Bring empathy to the work: you understand that change is hard, especially for busy lawyers, and you meet people where they are rather than where you wish they were
- Are collaborative and low-ego — you'll flex into adjacent work as the team grows and don't protect scope at the expense of outcomes
- Have enough of a sense of humor to keep the work enjoyable, even when it's complex
Strong Candidates May Also Have
- Experience in legal operations at a law firm, in-house legal department, or legal technology company
- Hands-on experience with Claude, Claude Code, or MCP integrations
- A track record of building or contributing to training programs or onboarding processes in a technical environment
- Familiarity with change management in professional services environments, where skepticism about new tools is real and earned
- Experience with tools like AppSheet, Tines, Zapier, or similar no-code/low-code platforms
Role-specific Policy
For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco 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. The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary
$170,000—$220,000 USD
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.
Your safety matters to us.
To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
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.
How to Get Visa Sponsorship as a Legal Operations Specialist
Target corporate legal departments over law firms
In-house legal teams at large corporations sponsor more consistently than law firms, which often prefer attorneys. Fortune 500 companies with dedicated legal ops functions, think tech, finance, and healthcare, file LCAs for this role regularly.
Frame your degree as the foundation, not a credential
Consular officers and USCIS adjudicators assess whether your degree directly supports the role. A business, information systems, or legal studies degree maps cleanly. A general arts degree requires a stronger written argument from your employer's attorney.
Emphasize process improvement and technology skills
Legal ops roles that involve e-billing platforms, contract lifecycle management, or matter management software are easier to defend as specialty occupations. The more technical the function, the clearer the degree requirement becomes to adjudicators.
Ask about cap-exempt employers before applying
Nonprofits, government entities, and universities with legal departments are H-1B cap-exempt, meaning they can file year-round without waiting for the lottery. These roles are less common but worth prioritizing if you've missed the registration window.
Get your LCA job description reviewed before signing an offer
The Labor Condition Application locks in your job title and duties. A vague description like 'performs legal support tasks' is weaker than 'manages e-billing systems and outside counsel relationships.' Ask your employer to be specific before filing.
Use Migrate Mate to filter for verified sponsoring employers
Not every company that posts a legal ops role will sponsor a visa. Migrate Mate surfaces employers with confirmed H-1B sponsorship history, so you're not spending weeks applying to roles that will stall at the offer stage.
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Does a Legal Operations Specialist qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes, if the role requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field like business, information systems, or legal studies. The key is demonstrating that the position is a specialty occupation, meaning a degree in a related discipline is a standard requirement for the job, not just a preference.
What degree do I need to qualify for an H-1B as a Legal Operations Specialist?
A bachelor's degree in business administration, information systems, legal studies, or a related field is the most defensible path. Degrees in political science or general management can qualify, but your employer's petition needs to clearly show the connection between your field of study and the specific duties of the role.
How often do employers sponsor Legal Operations Specialists for visas?
Sponsorship is more common than in traditional legal roles because legal ops is increasingly technology-driven. Large in-house legal departments at tech, healthcare, and financial services companies are the most active sponsors. Law firms sponsor less frequently for this title. Migrate Mate lists employers with verified sponsorship history for this role.
Can a Legal Operations Specialist get an O-1 visa instead of an H-1B?
Yes, but the O-1A requires documented extraordinary ability, think published work, awards, high-profile project leadership, or recognition in the legal operations field. If you've led significant process transformations, presented at industry conferences, or been cited in legal trade publications, an O-1A is worth exploring with an immigration attorney.
What happens to my visa if my employer's legal department is restructured or eliminated?
Your H-1B status is employer-specific. If your position is eliminated, you have a 60-day grace period to find a new sponsoring employer and have them file an H-1B transfer before your status lapses. Portability kicks in once the new petition is filed, even before it's approved, as long as it's non-frivolous.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Legal Operations Specialist jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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