Head of Payroll & Equity
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA · San Francisco, CA
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Frontier labonsitedirector$570k–$610k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead global equity and payroll operations scaling to public-company standards.
- Own control environment and systems strategy for compensation platforms.
- Oversee international expansion including new-country payroll and mobility.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Lovely office space to collaborate with colleagues
Ideal candidate
Seasoned equity and payroll leader who thrives in ambiguous, fast-paced scale-ups and loves building compliant, automated global operations. A developer of senior experts who defaults to scalable process over headcount.
Requirements
- 15+ years across equity compensation and/or payroll operations with experience leading senior functional leaders
- Experience operating equity and payroll functions to public-company standard
- Deep familiarity with equity management platforms (e.g. Shareworks or E*TRADE) and Workday payroll
- Experience owning cross-system architecture and integrations
- Experience building and scaling global operations across multiple jurisdictions
- Strong people leader who develops senior functional experts
- Thrives in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, building scalable processes
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience
- remote policy
- Staff expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more time in office
- visa sponsorship
- We do sponsor visas, but unable to successfully sponsor every role and every candidate
Lab profile
About Anthropic
AI safety company building reliable, interpretable and steerable frontier AI systems.
What they build
- Claude
- Claude API
- Claude Code
Known for
- AI safety and alignment
- Model interpretability research
- Frontier LLM development
Key facts
- Founded in 2021
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Backed by Amazon and Google