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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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.

Additionally, you will serve as the subject matter expert for all executive travel needs, vendor selection, and utilization governance, and partner with Legal and Finance on executive travel tax implications, business purpose documentation, and audit-ready recordkeeping.

You will own and optimize Anthropic's T&E-related systems and platforms, and champion AI-powered automation across T&E, deploying Claude to audit transactions, flag policy exceptions, and automate reporting.

This is a rare opportunity to come in as a true builder, inheriting solid operational foundations and a Claude-first culture pioneering AI-powered automation across Finance, and architect a T&E program worthy of a company shaping the future of AI.

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