People Specialist

Anthropic•Seattle, WA

6d•$235,000 - $300,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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. We're looking for a People Specialist to join our People Team. You'll support People Partners and cross functional teams on the work that helps our managers do their jobs well: performance cases, org changes, manager resources, and the operational processes underneath all of it. Some weeks you'll be deep in a sensitive performance case coaching a manager. Other weeks you're cleaning up a process, rebuilding a tracker, or helping prep a leader for a hard conversation. We need someone who takes both kinds of work seriously and holds the same quality bar for each. A lot of the work is sensitive. You'll be close to performance management, org restructures, and situations that touch ER or Employment Legal. Good judgment about what to share, with whom, and in what form is paramount.

Requirements

You've supported complex or sensitive casework before and can work with partial information, messy handoffs, and tight timelines
You're detail-oriented: you catch things, close loops, and remember where to find crucial information
Strong written communication. You'll be drafting things leaders use in hard conversations, and you're not precious when they get edited (you used Claude as a guide but not as a final editor)
Good judgment on need-to-know. You think about what to share, with whom, and what goes in writing versus what stays verbal
You'll push back when something's off. You have a point of view and you're comfortable raising concerns with people more senior than you
Comfortable with range. You don't check out on the tedious work or treat it as beneath you

Nice To Haves

5+ years in an HR- role: people operations, HR coordination, HRBP, or similar
Experience at a high-growth tech company where process was being built
Direct experience supporting HRBPs, Managers and Employees through challenging and sensitive matters
Working knowledge of HR compliance requirements
Interest in AI safety
Claude power user in your current role

Responsibilities

Manage performance casework: building documentation, tracking timelines, prepping talking points, and keeping details from falling through the cracks while owning the process end to end
Own and improve operational processes that managers and People Partners depend on, including outside business activity requests and reorg processing
Build, maintain, and improve manager resources and documentation so they're actually useful and actually current
Partner with Leadership Design on manager enablement programs like the performance cycle: logistics, content, delivery, and the unglamorous operational work that makes programs run
Pull and compile reports and data for sensitive personnel matters
Maintain tracking systems for casework and manager enablement initiatives; make them better than you found them