Chief of Staff, National Security Policy

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 this role:

This role serves as the partner to the Head of National Security Policy. While the Head of National Security Policy focuses on external engagements, strategic positioning, and final decision-making, this role owns the day-to-day management of the team—ensuring members of the National Security Policy team are supported, priorities are clear, and work moves forward efficiently. This role requires a deep understanding of the national security and policy landscape, with opportunities to further expertise with tutelage from the Head of National Security Policy.

As a member of the Policy leadership team, this role also contributes to the broader direction of Anthropic's policy function and ensures strong alignment between National Security and other policy workstreams.

Responsibilities:

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Manage the daily operations of the National Security Policy team, including workflow, priorities, and deliverables, and provide visibility to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders

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Run team rhythms (including standups, planning sessions, and check-ins) and keep work on track

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Surface blockers early and drive resolution

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Own hiring, onboarding, performance conversations, and career development

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Maintain pulse on team health—gather feedback, flag concerns, and foster strong team culture and collaboration

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Act as proxy for the Head of National Security Policy in internal meetings and decision-making processes when needed

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Represent the team's needs, perspectives, and priorities to cross-functional partners

Drafting, prioritization, and strategic execution

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Draft key internal and external documents, briefings, and communications on behalf of the Head of National Security Policy

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Translate strategic direction into clear priorities, workplans, and deliverables

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Ensure the team's work aligns with broader company and policy goals

Cross-functional alignment

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Build and maintain strong working relationships across Policy, Legal, Comms, Security, and other functions

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Ensure National Security Policy priorities are well-understood across the organization and cross-functional dependencies are managed proactively

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Serve as a connective thread between National Security Policy and the broader Policy team

Policy leadership

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Participate in Policy leadership forums and contribute to function-wide strategy and planning

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Keep a pulse on the business—understand company priorities and ensure National Security Policy work connects to them

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Shape long-term strategic planning, including having a strong intuition for emerging internal and external policy issues and developing proactive strategies around them

You may be a good fit if you:

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Have deep knowledge of national security matters, government, AI policy, or related fields

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Proven track record of managing and developing high-performing teams

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Strong operational instincts—able to build systems, keep complex work organized, and deliver results

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Proven ability to work cross-functionally and build alignment across diverse stakeholders

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Excellent judgment and discretion in sensitive contexts

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Clear, concise communicator with experience drafting for senior leaders (especially written—drafting is core to this role)

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Collaborative and low-ego; builds trust quickly

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Effective problem solver

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:
$295,000—$345,000 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.

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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. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process