Risk & Insurance Specialist

Anthropic•San Francisco, CA

4d•$180,000 - $230,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic’s Business Risk & Insurance (BRI) team, part of Treasury, safeguards the company’s balance sheet, people, and physical assets. The team provides financial and operational risk support as Anthropic grows its compute and data center infrastructure, offices, and customer-facing products. The Risk & Insurance Specialist will build operational excellence across contracts, claims, and day-to-day insurance operations, using AI and automation to streamline processes. The role works with teams including Compute, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Security, Product, and Payroll to identify emerging risks, help structure global insurance programs, support risk-financing strategy, and drive loss prevention. It offers the opportunity to help protect a rapidly growing company while its risk landscape is still evolving. Anthropic expects staff to work from one of its offices at least 25% of the time under its current location-based hybrid policy, though some roles may require more office time. The position requires at least a bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience, in a field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience. The annual salary range is $180,000–$230,000 USD.

Requirements

Experience in insurance, corporate risk management, brokerage, underwriting, or risk consulting.
Hands-on experience supporting a multi-line commercial insurance program, such as property, casualty, cyber/technology errors and omissions, or directors and officers/management liability.
At least a bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
A field of study relevant to the role, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Nice To Haves

8–12 years of experience in insurance, corporate risk management, brokerage, underwriting, or risk consulting.
At least 4 years on the corporate buyer side, or in a broker or carrier role serving corporate clients.
Experience at, or insuring, a technology company or other fast-growing, complex organization.
Property insurance experience, including large or complex property, construction, or data center exposures.
Captive insurance experience, including formation, management, fronting, or reinsurance.
Experience insuring emerging technology risks, such as AI or technology liability and cyber.
Background at a major broker, carrier, or large technology company risk team.
Actuarial training or credentials, or experience with actuarial analysis.
Familiarity with insurance management systems, SQL or Python, or building workflow automation.
Experience building processes from scratch in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

Review insurance and indemnity requirements in customer, vendor, lease, and compute agreements, and advise Legal and business partners on compliant, practical positions.
Manage claims intake and tracking, certificates of insurance, broker coordination, and policy administration; build a data warehouse or repository and repeatable processes as volume grows.
Collect and maintain exposure data, including property values, payroll, revenue, and headcount, for renewals, audits, and underwriting submissions.
Support limit-adequacy, loss, and retention analyses to inform insurance program structure and decisions.
Support captive formation and ongoing operations, including fronting and reinsurance coordination.
Identify and implement ways to automate manual insurance workflows using AI and workflow tools.
Partner with Compute, Finance, Legal, and Payroll on insurance questions across the business.