Policy Communications

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

We're seeking experienced Policy Communications Managers to drive  communications strategies for Anthropic's policy, research, and societal impacts initiatives. As a Policy Communications manager, you will work with policy, research, product, legal and external affairs to educate press and policy makers about our policies, products, programs, research and principles. The ideal candidates will be experienced media handlers who are equally comfortable driving proactive, creative communications strategies as dealing with reactive issues. We are looking for people who thrive working in fast paced environments, who have the ability to move fast, think critically and work collaboratively on complex issues. A deep understanding of the US media environment, the technology sector and Anthropic’s varied audiences is key. 

Key focus areas

Policy communications is a lean, high-impact team at Anthropic. Depending on the specific role, you may focus on one or more of these critical areas, alongside other issues: 

State and local policy [SF] 

• Drive proactive and reactive communications strategies for state and city-level AI policy initiatives and stakeholder engagement
• Working with the policy team, build programs and strategies that help to engage state and local officials, policy organizations, trade associations, and community stakeholders
• Develop substantive narratives and messaging that support responsible AI implementation at the local level.

National security [SF, DC, NYC, or Seattle]

• Drive proactive and reactive communications strategies around AI + issues of national security
• Build relationships with relevant security and defense journalists
• Working with policy and legal to translate complex technical concepts for relevant audiences

Societal impacts and research [SF, DC, NYC, or Seattle]

• Drive creative, proactive communications strategies around the work of Anthropic’s societal impacts research team 
• Develop substantive materials that enable education and conversation around the economic and societal impacts of AI systems
• Work closely with the research and editorial teams to manage policy communications considerations around forthcoming publications and launches

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute proactive communications strategies that effectively communicate our policy positions, products, and research to key stakeholders
• Effectively manage reactive inbound media requests 
• Partner cross functionally with the policy, legal, research and product teams to prepare for major company announcements and product launches, and to handle inbound media requests
• Build strong relationships with journalists and relevant influencers 
• Orchestrate and write company blog posts and other communications materials.
• Manage executive interviews and speaking engagements
• Lead rapid response communications for sensitive issues
• Build understanding around Anthropic's mission

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 8+ years of experience in policy communications, ideally in technology or research sectors
• Possess deep understanding of the technology and AI policy landscape and key stakeholders
• Want to be part of a fast-paced, small, experienced and impactful team
• Enjoy and are excellent at media relations and have a strong interest in less mainstream media
• Are a superb written and verbal communicator
• Enjoy working cross-functionally with a range of technical and non-technical teams
• Are excited to translate insights about AI for broader audiences
• Are results-oriented and high agency, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
• Care about ensuring that transformative AI systems are developed safely

The expected salary range for this position is:

Annual Salary:$240,000—$240,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed.  Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: 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 benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.