Head of Policy Communications

Head Of Policy Communications

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 are seeking an exceptional Head Of Policy Communications to lead our strategic communications efforts across critical policy areas. This senior leadership role will oversee communications strategy for federal, state, and local policy, societal impacts, safeguards, responsible scaling, security, legal and regulatory issues, and more. You will be responsible for crafting and executing sophisticated communications strategies that shape public understanding of AI policy issues while navigating complex issues and stakeholder landscapes.

As Head Of Policy Communications, you will serve as a key strategic advisor to Anthropic's leadership team and cross-functional partners, managing high-stakes communications in one of the most rapidly evolving and consequential technology sectors. This role demands exceptional judgment, strategic vision, and the ability to translate complex technical and policy concepts into compelling narratives that resonate with diverse audiences including press, policymakers, regulators, media, policy influencers, and the general public.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and execute comprehensive policy communications strategies that advance Anthropic's mission and policy objectives
• Lead communications for federal, state, and local policy initiatives, ensuring cohesive messaging
• Oversee strategic narratives around societal impacts of AI, trust and safety measures, responsible scaling policies, legal and regulatory issues, and security frameworks
• Serve as senior communications counsel to C-suite executives and cross-functional partners including policy, legal, societal impacts, and brand marketing
• Build and maintain relationships with key policy stakeholders, including press, government officials, think tanks, and policy influencers

Crisis & Issues Management

Team & Program Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Requirements

Must-Have Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

The expected salary range for this position is :

Annual Salary : $400,000 - $400,000 USD

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.

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.

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.