Policy Communications Lead, Societal Impacts + Research

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.

We’re hiring a policy communications lead to help drive proactive storytelling and external communications around our research into developing safe AI systems and understanding AI’s impact on the world and global economy. In this role, you will partner closely with our Research and Societal Impacts teams to help develop messaging and identify creative opportunities to tell stories about their findings to press, policymakers and the general public. You will help drive narratives around our technical research and work to analyze the economic and societal impacts of AI. 

The ideal candidate can boil down complex topics for a broad audience while maintaining accuracy, is an experienced issues handler, and has a proven track record of landing proactive media coverage on company-driven research. They should be able to move fast, think critically and creatively, and work collaboratively among cross-functional teams– including research, legal, policy and creative/brand teams.  

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute proactive communications strategies that explain our research in an accessible way to press, policymakers and the general public  
• Partner cross-functionally with the research, legal and policy teams to craft proactive and reactive messaging in advance of report releases 
• Build strong relationships with tech policy and economic reporters and relevant influencers. 
• Manage inbound media requests
• Write company blog posts and other communications materials
• Work with agencies to drive communications goals

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 10+ years directing policy communications at high-growth tech companies, research organizations, think tanks, or NGOs  
• Are experienced at issues management and developing reactive communications
• Are a strong written and verbal communicator who believes accuracy is paramount and details matter
• Enjoy thinking outside of the box on ways to tell stories vs. repeating the same playbook
• Have a strong track record of communicating about complex topics in an easy-to-understand way for a wide range of audiences, including press and policymakers
• Want to be part of a fast-paced, small, experienced and impactful team
• Care about ensuring that transformative AI systems are developed safely
• Enjoy working cross-functionally with a range of technical and non-technical teams

The expected salary range for this position is:

Annual Salary:$200,000—$255,000 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.