Finance and Strategy, People & Headcount Planning
Anthropic
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
We are seeking a Strategic Finance team member focused on People & Headcount Planning to join our Finance team at Anthropic. In this role, you will be a key partner to our People, Recruiting, and leadership teams, providing financial expertise and guidance to support workforce planning and compensation decisions. As we continue to grow rapidly, you will play a crucial role in building and maintaining our headcount models, analyzing workforce data, and delivering insights that inform hiring decisions and resource allocation. This role will work closely with cross-functional teams and collaborate with other members of the finance organization to align people strategies with broader financial considerations. If you are passionate about building world-class workforce planning capabilities at an innovative AI company, join us on the frontier of making AI safe and impactful.
Responsibilities:
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Build, maintain, and enhance workforce planning models that forecast headcount, compensation costs, and organizational growth scenarios across the company
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Partner with People and Recruiting teams to align hiring plans with budget and long-range financial plans, providing analytical support for headcount allocation decisions
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Develop deep expertise in equity compensation mechanics and partner with the Compensation team to model the financial impact of equity programs, refresh grants, and new hire grants
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Prepare and deliver clear, concise, and insightful reports on workforce metrics, compensation trends, and headcount variance analysis to stakeholders and executives
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Collaborate with FP&A, Accounting, and People teams to ensure accurate forecasting of people-related costs including salary, benefits, payroll taxes, and equity expense
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Support the annual planning and budgeting process for all people-related expenses, working closely with department leaders to understand hiring needs and timing
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Establish and implement reporting dashboards to track key workforce and compensation metrics
You may be a good fit if you have:
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5+ years of experience across strategic finance, FP&A, compensation analytics, or investment banking, with meaningful exposure to workforce planning or people analytics
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Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and develop / maintain complex financial and headcount models
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Strong understanding of equity compensation structures including stock options, RSUs, and refresh programs
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Comfort working cross-functionally and are adept at communicating complex financial information to non-finance audiences
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Excitement about working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt well to change
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Possess a bias towards action, strong work ethic, and have experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines
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Strong relationship building, business judgment, process management, and communication skills
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Passion about Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems
Strong candidates may also:
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Experience with workforce planning tools such as Anaplan, Adaptive Planning, or similar platforms
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Background in total rewards, compensation or HR analytics
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Experience scaling people finance functions in high-growth, technology-driven organizations
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Proficiency in SQL and data visualization tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau)
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Knowledge of HR systems such as Workday, Greenhouse, or similar platforms
The annual compensation range for this role is 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. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity and benefits.
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. 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