Product Policy Manager, User Well-being

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

As a Safeguards Product Policy Manager, you will be responsible for helping develop policies, clarify enforcement guidelines, and advise on safety interventions for our products and services. As a member of the user well-being policy team, your focus area(s) may include child safety, mental health, human exploitation and abuse, and/or adult sexual activity. Safety is core to our mission and you’ll help shape policy creation and development so that our users can safely interact with and build on top of our products in a harmless, helpful and honest way. 

*Important context for this role: In this position you may be exposed to and engage with explicit content spanning a range of topics, including those of a sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature.

Responsibilities:

• Draft new policies that help govern the responsible use of our models for emerging capabilities and use cases
• Conduct regular reviews and testing of existing policies to identify and address gaps and ambiguities
• Review flagged content to drive enforcement and policy improvements
• Update our policies based on feedback collected from external experts, our enforcement team, and edge cases that you will review
• Develop deep subject matter expertise in a particular policy area
• Educate and align internal stakeholders around our policies and our approach to product policy in your focus area(s)
• Keep up to date with new and existing AI policy norms and standards, and use these to inform our decision-making on policy areas

You may be a good fit if you have experience:

• Drafting or updating product and / or user policies, with the ability to effectively bridge technical and policy discussions 
• Aligning product policy decisions between diverse sets of stakeholders, such as Product, Engineering, Public Policy, and Legal teams
• Working with generative AI products, including writing effective prompts for policy evaluations
• Understanding the challenges that exist in developing and implementing product policies at scale, including in the content moderation space
• Thinking creatively about the risks and benefits of new technologies, and leverage data and research to inform policy recommendations
• Navigating and prioritizing work efforts amidst ambiguity
• As a researcher, subject matter expert, or trust & safety professional working in one or more of the following focus areas: human exploitation and abuse, mental health, child safety, developmental science, adult sexuality, and/or content classification systems.

 

The expected salary range for this position is:

Annual Salary:$200,000—$250,000 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.