M&A Tax Director

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 looking for an M&A Tax Director to join our Tax Team at Anthropic. As the company pursues an active and growing pipeline of acquisitions, acqui-hires, data center investments, joint ventures and other strategic transactions, this role will be a core member of our transactions tax function, working closely with our M&A Tax Lead. You will support and lead tax workstreams across the deal lifecycle, from initial evaluation through post-closing integration, and serve as a trusted resource for our Corporate Development, Legal, and Finance teams. Beyond transactions, this role will support a wide range of strategic and operational tax matters. This is a high-impact role with significant ownership and a front-row seat to some of the most consequential transactions and tax planning work happening in AI today. If you're excited to help build a function from the ground up at a company working on one of the most important challenges of our time, we’d love to hear from you. Key responsibilities - Lead and manage tax workstreams for acquisitions, mergers, acqui-hires, asset and stock purchases, corporate reorganizations, financing transactions, and minority investments, including tax due diligence, risk identification and quantification, and deal structuring analysis - Partner with Corporate Development on deal pipeline evaluation, providing early-stage tax input to inform go/no-go decisions and deal economics - Draft and review tax provisions in transaction documents, including purchase agreements, merger agreements, and ancillary deal documents - Support post-acquisition tax integration planning, including entity rationalization, intercompany restructuring, and tax attribute analysis - Advise on tax considerations for data center investments, build-to-suit arrangements, leases, and related infrastructure transactions, and coordinate with relevant team members on incentives, credits, and indirect tax matters - Advise on the tax structuring of joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and REIT-related investment structures, including real estate and data center joint venture arrangements - Help build and maintain transactions tax playbooks, due diligence checklists, and internal processes - Coordinate with the tax compliance and provision teams to ensure clean handoff of closed transactions, including documentation of structure, elections, tax attributes, and reporting positions - Prepare technical tax memoranda documenting transactions, material tax positions, and risk assessments to support internal sign-off, financial statement audit, and tax return filing positions Minimum qualifications - JD or CPA - M&A and transactional tax experience gained at a large law firm, Big 4 M&A tax practice, or in-house transactions tax team - Strong technical expertise in federal and state tax rules governing corporate transactions, including Section 338, Section 368 reorganizations, and asset and stock acquisitions - Experience running tax due diligence workstreams and quantifying tax exposures in transaction contexts - Experience drafting and negotiating tax provisions in M&A transaction documents - Experience supporting post-acquisition integration from a tax perspective, including entity rationalization and intercompany restructuring Preferred qualifications - 7-10 years of tax experience, with significant M&A and transactional tax exposure - LL.M. in Taxation or MST - Experience providing general tax advisory support, including advising on commercial contracts, operational matters, and cross-functional tax questions - Experience with joint ventures, partnerships, minority investments, rev