Director of IT SOX

Join Anthropic, an AI-first company, as a Senior Manager, IT SOX. In this hands-on role, you will be a key executor of our IT SOX compliance program, focusing on IT General Controls, IT Application Controls, and system risk assessments. You will collaborate with various teams, assess new system implementations, and identify automation opportunities. This is a high-impact opportunity to establish a control environment suitable for an AI-first company.

• Act as a trusted advisor to Engineering, GRC, Security, and Finance teams on technology controls adapted to a fast-growing organization.
• Partner with Engineering, Security, IT, and DevOps teams to assess the design and implementation of scalable and sustainable controls.
• Execute IT SOX testing across IT General Controls and IT Application Controls, including access management, change management, and computer operations.

• You'll bring technical depth, a bias toward automation, and the ability to partner effectively with both technical teams and external auditors as the organization experiences scaling to public-company standards
• Strong project management and organizational skills with close attention to detail
• Experience designing, testing, and documenting controls across access management, change management, and computer operations
• Clear, effective communicator — able to work across technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to work independently on complex, ambiguous workstreams while communicating proactively with senior stakeholders
• Deep working knowledge of ITGCs, ITACs, and IT risk assessment methodologies
• Experience auditing highly automated DevOps environments (CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, automated deployments) and adapting traditional change-management and access controls to them
• Ability to effectively guide and direct the work of internal team members and/or co-sourced partners
• Demonstrated comfort with ambiguity and the ability to operate effectively in a high-pace, rapidly changing environment
• Hands-on IT audit or IT SOX compliance experience, ideally in a fast-paced technology environment
• We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Hands-on experience with cloud environments (GCP, AWS, and/or Azure)
• Experience scaling a compliance program to public-company standards
• Track record of scaling an audit or SOX program through periods of rapid growth
• Familiarity with enterprise systems such as Workday, Salesforce, or GitHub
• Experience evaluating SDLC controls in modern software development environments
• CISA, CIA, CISSP, CPA, or equivalent certification
• Genuine enthusiasm for working in an AI-first environment — applying AI to audit work itself and rethinking assumptions about how controls operate when AI is embedded in the processes being audited
• 12+ years of hands-on IT audit and SOX compliance experience, including time in a Big 4 or comparable environment