M&A Tax Director

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, revenue-sharing arrangements and financing transactions
• Experience with REITs, including REIT qualification and tax considerations for REIT joint ventures and real estate investment structures
• Experience with data center acquisitions, infrastructure transactions, or real estate tax considerations
• Tax experience at a high-growth technology company
• Knowledge of state and local tax (SALT) implications of transactions
• Experience with equity compensation tax issues in the context of acquisitions and acqui-hires
• Exposure to international tax aspects of cross-border acquisitions
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex tax issues into clear, actionable guidance for Legal, Finance, and Corporate Development partners
• Comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to help build processes from scratch in fast-paced environments
• Passion for Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems