Job Software for Head of Travel & Expense at Anthropic

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create dependable, interpretable, and steerable AI techniques. We need AI to be protected and useful for our customers and for society as a complete. Our staff is a rapidly rising group of dedicated researchers, engineers, coverage specialists, and enterprise leaders working collectively to construct useful AI techniques.

About the Role

As Head of Travel & Expense, you may be the one proprietor of every thing T&E at Anthropic: worker, visitor and government journey coverage, personal constitution technique, our Navan and Brex platforms, most popular resort and airfare packages, duty-of-care (in partnership with Security), and Board-level reporting on government bills. You will report back to the Head of Finance Operations and lead an preliminary staff of two, with a mandate to construct a best-in-class program.

This is a uncommon alternative to return in as a real builder—inheriting stable operational foundations and a Claude-first tradition pioneering AI-powered automation throughout Finance—and architect a T&E program worthy of an organization shaping the way forward for AI.

Responsibilities:

Strategy, Policy & Governance

• Design and personal Anthropic’s multi-year T&E technique, evolving the perform from operationally sound to best-in-class throughout coverage, value administration, worker expertise, and compliance
• Build and keep a complete world T&E coverage framework—worker, government, and worldwide—embedding controls straight in techniques to drive compliance on the level of reserving
• Lead a cross-functional T&E governance construction with Finance, Security, Legal, HR, and Executive Assistants
• Design and implement jurisdiction-specific T&E coverage frameworks for worldwide entities (EMEA, APAC), incorporating native per diem laws, VAT reclaim eligibility, and country-level receipt/documentation necessities

Vendor Negotiations & Savings

• Own the company journey provider program, driving materials financial savings by way of resort RFPs, airline company agreements, and most popular price packages
• Manage strategic relationships with our T&E journey and expense techniques, serving as the first enterprise contact for contract negotiations, product roadmap discussions, and AI characteristic growth
• Track and report financial savings efficiency to Finance management and executives

Executive Travel & Compliance

• Serve as the subject material professional for all government journey wants, vendor choice, and utilization governance
• Partner with Legal and Finance on government journey tax implications, enterprise goal documentation, and audit-ready recordkeeping

Platform & AI Automation (Claudification)

• Own and optimize Anthropic’s T&E-related techniques and platforms: configuration, coverage guidelines, approval workflows, digital playing cards, and ERP integrations
• Champion AI-powered automation throughout T&E—deploying Claude to audit transactions, flag coverage exceptions, and automate reporting—in step with Anthropic’s Claude-first tradition

You could also be match you probably have:

• 12+ years of T&E / company journey expertise at a high-growth know-how firm, together with 7+ years in a management or program possession function with direct experiences
• Demonstrated observe file of value financial savings: materials, quantified outcomes from resort RFPs, airline company agreements, and journey provider negotiations
• Deep platform experience in Navan and/or comparable TMC platforms, plus Brex or equal expense administration instruments
• Executive journey program possession
• Strong cross-functional instincts: confirmed capacity to companion throughout Security, Legal, HR, Finance, and C-suite government groups and their supporting workers
• Duty-of-care and worldwide compliance: background in journey threat administration frameworks and T&E compliance throughout world entities (EMEA, APAC, LATAM)
• AI-curious builder mindset: expertise deploying AI instruments to automate T&E processes, or real enthusiasm for doing so—and luxury creating construction the place none exists

Logistics

Education necessities: We require at the least a Bachelor’s diploma in a associated subject or equal expertise.

Location-based hybrid coverage: Currently, we anticipate all workers to be in certainly one of our places of work at the least 25% of the time. However, some roles could require extra time in our places of work.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren’t in a position to efficiently sponsor visas for each function and each candidate. But if we make you a suggestion, we are going to make each affordable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to assist with this.

We encourage you to use even when you don’t imagine you meet each single qualification. Not all sturdy candidates will meet each single qualification as listed.  Research exhibits that individuals who determine as being from underrepresented teams are extra vulnerable to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the energy of their candidacy, so we urge you to not exclude your self prematurely and to submit an software when you’re on this work. We assume AI techniques like those we’re constructing have huge social and moral implications. We assume this makes illustration much more vital, and we attempt to incorporate a spread of numerous views on our staff.

Your security issues to us. To shield your self from potential scams, do not forget that Anthropic recruiters solely contact you from @anthropic.com e-mail addresses. In some instances, we could companion with vetted recruiting companies who will determine themselves as engaged on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from different domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters won’t ever ask for cash, charges, or banking data earlier than your first day. If you are ever uncertain a few communication, do not click on any hyperlinks—go to anthropic.com/careers straight for confirmed place openings.

How we’re completely different

We imagine that the highest-impact AI analysis will likely be huge science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive staff on just some large-scale analysis efforts. And we worth influence — advancing our long-term targets of steerable, reliable AI — somewhat than work on smaller and extra particular puzzles. We view AI analysis as an empirical science, which has as a lot in widespread with physics and biology as with conventional efforts in pc science. We’re a particularly collaborative group, and we host frequent analysis discussions to make sure that we’re pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we vastly worth communication expertise.

The best solution to perceive our analysis instructions is to learn our current analysis. This analysis continues most of the instructions our staff labored on previous to Anthropic, together with: 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 profit company headquartered in San Francisco. We supply aggressive compensation and advantages, elective fairness donation matching, beneficiant trip and parental depart, versatile working hours, and a beautiful workplace house during which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates’ AI Usage: Learn about our policy for utilizing AI in our software course of