Policy Partnerships, Public 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 the role

We are looking for a Policy Partnerships colleague who will operationalize and scale Anthropic's relationships with civil society organizations, industry actors and the broader third-party ecosystem. In this role, you will build coalitions to further Anthropic’s mission of ensuring that artificial intelligence systems are developed safely and benefit humanity.

You'll serve as a critical bridge between Anthropic's Policy, Communications, and Research teams on one side, and third-party actors on the other. As AI capabilities advance, these partnerships will be essential for Anthropic to achieve its policy goals. Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate a track record of operational and policy excellence.

Working within our Central Policy team, you'll have significant autonomy to shape these partnerships. We're looking for someone who can be both a trusted partner to external counterparts and a thoughtful steward of Anthropic's resources — someone who can strategically connect their relationship management with our policy priorities for maximum impact. This role exists to ensure our partnerships are strategically coherent, strong, and structured in ways that scale globally.

Anthropic is equal parts research lab, policy think-tank, and technology startup. We care deeply about safe development of AI systems, and build partnership with other policy actors through proactive, opinionated, substantive policy conversations. This role offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of AI policy; you will play a central role building the partnerships and processes that enable our teams to effectively engage with actors who will help bring about a safe transition to an AGI future.

In this role you will:

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Identify collaboration opportunities that advance Anthropic’s priority policy campaigns

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Evaluate and prioritize inbound requests from third parties, ensuring Anthropic's engagement is focused on high-impact collaborations

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Coordinate between internal teams, in particular Policy, Legal, and Communications, to facilitate external partnerships

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Design and manage processes for executing sophisticated engagement strategies with key coalitions and partners

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Build and maintain strong working relationships with key third-party stakeholders, including civil society and private-sector leaders

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Develop and execute complex campaigns and advocacy strategies that effectively leverage internal resources (technical research, empirical evidence, Anthropic colleagues), partners (industry peers, customers), and other aligned stakeholders

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Prepare presentations and messaging documents to clearly articulate the company's stance on policy issues

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Create systems to track, measure, and optimize our partnerships strategy’s impact

You may be a good fit if you:

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Have 10+ years of experience building and leading strong partnerships efforts at leading technology companies

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Have a track record of effective, information-rich advocacy with third-party and policy audiences

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Excel at multi-stakeholder coordination. Proven track record managing complex programs that span research, policy, legal, and communications teams with competing priorities

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Are comfortable making judgment calls in ambiguous situations. You can synthesize incomplete information from multiple teams, identify blockers, and drive decisions when strategic direction is evolving

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Exercise sound judgment on prioritization. You can focus effort where it matters most and manage stakeholder expectations effectively, with clarity and directness

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Communicate effectively across contexts. Equally comfortable briefing executives on partnership strategy and managing day-to-day coordination with external researchers and third-party actors

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Have experience building and leveraging coalitions, including industry and civil society stakeholders, to inform and influence policy actors

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Are experienced in working with communications teams to craft creative mass media and targeted messaging campaigns for policy influence

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Understand government and policy contexts. You’re familiar with U.S. federal and state and local policy dynamics, including considerations around policy development processes

This role can be based in San Francisco or DC.

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:
$265,000—$295,000 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