Community Engagement Manager - Data Center Communities

Content Creators; Virginia; Hybrid; USD 265,000 - 295,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Community Engagement Manager for Virginia and West Virginia to serve as our on-the-ground presence, building trusted relationships with officials, communities, and residents affected by data center projects. You will translate complex plans into clear local benefits and help write scalable engagement playbooks for expansion.

You will travel regularly (up to 50%) within VA/WV and collaborate with Policy, Infrastructure, and Communications teams to align strategy with

Qualifications

• Experience in community affairs, public affairs, economic development, government relations, local or state government, or a closely related field
• Direct experience working for or engaging with local governments and a broad set of community stakeholders on behalf of large infrastructure, construction, energy, or technology projects, with a working understanding of how local politics and community dynamics actually play out
• A skilled relationship and coalition builder who earns trust with a diverse group of stakeholders, and who maintains relationships through difficult conversations
• The ability to represent a company credibly in public settings, including town halls, hearings, and press interviews
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to turn a complex operational plan into plain language that a local official or reporter can understand and respond to
• The ability to work independently, get up to speed quickly on complex policy issues, and manage multiple concurrent engagements across different markets without losing track of any of them
• Based in Virginia or West Virginia or willing to relocate to one of them, and prepared to travel regularly across both states

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with Virginia boards of supervisors, city and town councils, and planning commissions, West Virginia county commissions and municipal officials, state economic development agencies, community groups, civic leaders, educational institutions, and workforce partners in the Virginia and West Virginia data center markets you cover
• Develop and execute a community engagement strategy for each of your markets, spanning site selection, pre-development, construction, and ongoing operations
• Build external coalitions, host education and listening sessions, and design local solutions that deliver real benefits to the communities where we operate
• Represent Anthropic in public forums, town halls, planning hearings, community events, and local media
• Monitor community sentiment and local political dynamics, and advise internal teams on risks, opportunities, and the right pace and posture for engagement, including in markets where data center development is already well established and community questions about its cumulative effects are active
• Partner with the Real Estate and Infrastructure team to bring community input into how projects are planned, communicated, and delivered, not just how they are announced
• Work with the Communications team to develop proactive, locally relevant messaging
• Coordinate charitable giving, community investment, and economic development commitments in your markets, including managing nonprofit partner relationships
• Partner with the Energy and Sustainability team to explain our approach to environmental stewardship and respond to questions about power, water, noise, transmission, and land use
• Build a community engagement playbook and repeatable processes that scale as Anthropic's infrastructure footprint grows

Skills

Relationship builder

Public affairs

Community engagement

Policy understanding

Strong communication

Independent worker

Willing to travel

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Community Engagement Manager for Virginia and West Virginia to serve as our on-the-ground presence, building trusted relationships with officials, communities, and residents affected by data center projects. You will translate complex plans into clear local benefits and help write scalable engagement playbooks for expansion.

You will travel regularly (up to 50%) within VA/WV and collaborate with Policy, Infrastructure, and Communications teams to align strategy with