Location: San Francisco, CA

Job Description:

As Head of Travel & Expense, you will be responsible for designing and owning Anthropic's multi-year T&E strategy, evolving the function from operationally sound to best-in-class across policy, cost management, employee experience, and compliance.

You will lead a cross-functional T&E governance structure with Finance, Security, Legal, HR, and Executive Assistants, and design and enforce jurisdiction-specific T&E policy frameworks for international entities (EMEA, APAC).

You will also own the corporate travel supplier program, driving material savings through hotel RFPs, airline corporate agreements, and preferred rate programs, and manage strategic relationships with our T&E travel and expense systems.

Responsibilities:

• Strategy, Policy & Governance:
• Design and own Anthropic's multi-year T&E strategy
• Build and maintain a comprehensive global T&E policy framework
• Lead a cross-functional T&E governance structure
• Design and enforce jurisdiction-specific T&E policy frameworks for international entities

• Vendor Negotiations & Savings:
• Own the corporate travel supplier program
• Drive material savings through hotel RFPs, airline corporate agreements, and preferred rate programs
• Manage strategic relationships with our T&E travel and expense systems

• Executive Travel & Compliance:
• Serve as the subject matter expert for all executive travel needs
• Partner with Legal and Finance on executive travel tax implications, business purpose documentation, and audit-ready recordkeeping

• Platform & AI Automation (Claudification):
• Own and optimize Anthropic's T&E-related systems and platforms
• Champion AI-powered automation across T&E

Requirements:

• 12+ years of T&E / corporate travel experience at a high-growth technology company
• Demonstrated track record of cost savings
• Deep platform expertise in Navan and/or comparable TMC platforms, plus Brex or equivalent expense management tools
• Executive travel program ownership
• Strong cross-functional instincts
• Duty-of-care and international compliance
• AI-curious builder mindset

Salary:

The annual compensation range for this role is $300,000-$360,000 USD.

Logistics:

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas!

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About the role

We’re building one of the most elite GTM organisations in tech and we’re looking for a world-class Executive Assistant to help scale it.

This isn’t your typical EA role. You’ll be the operational right hand to our CRO and supporting the leadership team that drives all revenue functions at Synthesia. Think: calendar control, travel orchestration, strategic meeting flow, and the glue between Sales, Success, and the broader business.

What You’ll Do:

• Partner closely with the CRO and GTM leaders to prioritise time, focus, and energy across meetings, customers, internal stakeholders, and strategic initiatives.

• Own and optimise complex calendars, across time zones, with ruthless prioritisation.

• Coordinate cross-functional meetings, off-sites, QBRs, and field events and ensure they land with impact.

• Handle executive travel, logistics, and briefings like a pro, details matter.

• Create leverage across the GTM org by helping drive action items, follow-through, and internal alignment.

• Manage ad hoc requests with speed, confidentiality, and judgment.

About You:

• You’ve supported senior leaders (CRO, Sales, GTM, or C-suite) in high-growth, high-performance environments.

• You love solving problems before they’re visible - you’re proactive, not reactive.

• You’re polished but scrappy, someone who brings professionalism without over-engineering.

• You’re organised under pressure, resourceful when things get chaotic, and always one step ahead.

• You’re based in NYC and thrive in a fast-paced, in-office environment with exec visibility.

Why This Role Matters:

This is a rare opportunity to plug directly into a GTM engine that’s scaling at lightning speed. You’ll be the connective tissue across Sales, Success, Marketing, and Ops, helping the team move faster, smarter, and with more precision.

If you’ve ever wanted to see how a category-defining company grows from the inside out — this is it.

Benefits:

Learn more about our Benefits and how we work at Synthesia in our Candidate Hub.

We are looking for someone in NYC (or willing to Relocate) who thrives in an In-Office culture.

Compensation: Will be dependent on experience but we are targeting a range of $80,000-$130,000.

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