Policy Communications Lead, EMEA

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.

Anthropic seeks an exceptional policy communications professional to promote understanding and awareness of the organization's mission and policy perspectives across the UK and EMEA.

This role will work with policy, legal, and external affairs colleagues in the UK, EU, and US to educate policymakers about our products and principles. The ideal candidate should be a highly skilled media handler who is used to working in a fast-paced environment. They should have the ability to move fast, think critically, and work collaboratively on complex issues. A deep understanding of the UK and EU political, regulatory, technology, and media environments and Anthropic's varied audiences is key.

Responsibilities

• Partner with regional and global policy leadership to define and drive impactful policy communication strategies that advance Anthropic’s goals in our priority markets.
• Translate strategy into breakthrough campaigns, narratives and initiatives that resonate with relevant audiences.
• Work with the policy team to craft our responses to policy developments that impact the AI industry and architect reactive communications strategies.
• Handle major policy announcements, executive interviews, speaking events and coach our executive bench.
• Build strong relationships with journalists and relevant influencers in the UK, Brussels and other important EMEA policy hubs.
• Partner cross-functionally with a wide range of teams including legal, research, policy and external partners.
• Provide communications counsel to a wide range of stakeholders across the company including regional leadership.
• Orchestrate and write company blog posts and other communications materials.
• Manage agency teams.
• Protect and advance Anthropic's reputation and brand.

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 12+ years leading policy communications in the UK, Brussels and across EMEA at high-growth tech companies or top tier PR agencies.
• Have experience managing policy communications across EMEA markets; are comfortable driving proactive campaigns and handling reactive issues. 
• Are excellent at media relations and issues management and have a deep understanding of the political and regulatory landscape across EMEA, especially in the EU and UK.
• Want to be part of a fast-paced, small, experienced and impactful team.
• Can translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
• Possess truly stellar written and verbal communication skills.
• Have a strong grasp on the evolving media landscape and its role in shaping culture.
• Show excellent judgment and instincts in navigating ambiguous situations.
• Are self-driven with a bias to action.

Sample Projects

• Devise and execute a policy communications strategy that advances Anthropic’s positions in our priority EMEA markets. 
• Manage fast-moving inbound press enquiries on complex issues.
• Manage executive visits to the region.
• Provide counsel and support to team members across the organization.

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

The expected salary range for this position is:

Annual Salary:£190,000—£240,000 GBP

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.