Creative Director, Anthropic

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.

The Creative Studio is Anthropic’s in-house creative team responsible for the brand expression across Anthropic and Claude. We care about craft, making things by hand and using AI when it makes sense. The team is growing, and we’re looking for people who do excellent work to join us. The stakes are real, and there’s room to shape what all this becomes.

About the role

Anthropic is looking for a Creative Director to own the creative vision for the Anthropic brand — defining how Anthropic looks, feels, and communicates in the world.

This is a rare role: one that sits at the intersection of brand strategy, editorial sensibility, and creative execution across an unusually wide range of formats and audiences. Anthropic occupies a unique position in the cultural conversation around AI — not just as a technology company, but as an organization with a genuine intellectual and moral point of view. This role is the creative steward of that position.

The Anthropic brand touches everything from flagship events and media partnerships to long-form editorial content, book publishing, thought leadership campaigns, and internal communications. The Creative Director ensures that work across all of these channels feels cohesive, distinctive, and editorially rigorous, while also building the team that makes it possible.

You'll work closely with brand marketing, communications, editorial, and publishing partners to translate Anthropic's mission and values into creative that resonates across a wide range of audiences — from policymakers and researchers to enterprise leaders and the broader public. You bring both a strong visual and verbal sensibility, and understand that at Anthropic, design and language are inseparable.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the creative vision for the Anthropic brand, ensuring consistency and coherence across all touchpoints — from campaigns and events to editorial, publishing, and digital experiences

• Set and elevate the creative bar for the team, providing direction and feedback that pushes the quality and distinctiveness of everything we produce

• Lead creative strategy and execution for high-profile brand initiatives, including flagship events, media and publication partnerships, thought leadership campaigns, and brand development work

• Shape and champion Anthropic's editorial aesthetic — the visual and verbal language that governs how Anthropic's ideas appear in the world, whether in a long-form essay, a book jacket, a newsletter, or a printed report

• Develop brand positioning, messaging frameworks, and visual identity recommendations in collaboration with brand marketing and communications leadership

• Partner closely with communications, editorial, and publishing teams to ensure creative work supports and amplifies Anthropic's voice across blogs, books, newsletters, and other content Partner closely with communications and publishing teams to ensure that externally-facing content — blogs, books, op-eds, newsletters, research communications — reflects a coherent and elevated point of view

• Collaborate with events leadership to shape the creative experience at Anthropic's marquee events, including identity, branded environments, and on-site materials

• Build and grow the Anthropic brand creative team, hiring for and developing talent across design, copywriting, and other disciplines as the team scales

• Manage relationships with external creative partners and agencies where appropriate, maintaining high standards and brand alignment across all work

• Work cross-functionally with teams across the organization — including research, policy, product, and enterprise marketing — to ensure the Anthropic brand creative output serves a broad range of internal and external goals

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 10+ years of experience in creative leadership, with a track record of building or shaping a brand from the ground up — ideally at a technology company, media organization, editorial outlet, or agency operating at the intersection of ideas and culture

• Have a strong portfolio demonstrating creative vision, strategic thinking, and the ability to work across a wide range of formats — including long-form editorial, book design, campaigns, and digital

• Are skilled at translating complex, nuanced subject matter into creative that is both compelling and accessible to diverse audiences

• Bring genuine editorial sensibility: you read widely, you care about how ideas are expressed in language, and you understand what distinguishes a beautifully made publication from a merely professional one

• Have experience hiring and developing creative talent, and can build a strong team in a fast-moving environment

• Are fluent in both visual and verbal creative — you can art direct and you can edit, and you know when the two are the same thing

• Are comfortable working in ambiguity and can balance long-term brand vision with the demands of fast-moving, high-stakes projects

• Are an excellent collaborator who can work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders — from creative teams to communications, policy, and senior leadership

• Care deeply about the societal implications of AI and are excited by the opportunity to help communicate Anthropic's mission and work to the world

• Are comfortable engaging with technical or policy-heavy subject matter and bringing it to life creatively

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:
$385,000—$460,000 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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

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