Community Engagement Manager, Data Centers (Indiana & Kentucky)

anthropic; United States; Hybrid; USD 265,000 - 295,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Community Engagement Manager to lead relations with local governments, communities, and partners in Indiana and Kentucky. You will translate technical plans into local benefits, build coalitions, and represent Anthropic in public forums while coordinating with policy, infrastructure, and energy teams.

You will travel up to 50% within Indiana and Kentucky and contribute to playbooks for scalable community engagement as Anthropic expands its data center footprint.

Qualifications

• Experience in community affairs, public affairs, economic development, government relations or related field.
• Ability to build trusted coalitions across diverse stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication, ability to translate complex plans into plain language.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with county commissioners, city councils, economic development orgs and residents in Indiana and Kentucky.
• Develop and execute a community engagement strategy spanning site selection, construction, and operations.
• Represent Anthropic in public forums, hearings, community events, and media.
• Monitor sentiment and advise on risks, opportunities and engagement pace.
• Collaborate with Real Estate, Infrastructure, Communications, Energy and Sustainability teams to align community input with project delivery.

Job description

Remote-Friendly, United States

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

Anthropic is building AI systems that will shape the trajectory of one of the most consequential technologies in human history. That work requires physical infrastructure at significant scale, and building that infrastructure the right way means being a real, long-term partner to the communities where we operate.

We are looking for a Community Engagement Manager in Indiana and Kentucky to join our Public Policy team and serve as Anthropic's on-the-ground presence in the communities where our data centers are sited, built, and operated. This is not a communications role or a government affairs role, though you will do elements of both. It is a relationship role: your job is to make Anthropic a trusted, visible, and valued neighbor, from the earliest stages of site selection through construction and long-term operations.

You will be the connective tissue between Anthropic's Policy and Infrastructure teams and the local officials, community organizations, economic development partners, and residents who have a stake in what we build. You will surface concerns before they escalation, translate our technical and operational plans into clear local benefits, and build the coalitions that allow us to move quickly and responsibly. Because Anthropic's infrastructure footprint is still early in its growth, you will also help write the playbook: the processes you build in your first markets are the ones we will use as we expand.

You will travel regularly within Indiana and Kentucky, up to 50% of the time, and occasionally to other Anthropic data center markets.

Key responsibilities

Build and maintain trusted, sustained relationships with county commissioners and councils, Kentucky fiscal courts and judge-executives, mayors and city councils, plan commissions and zoning boards, state and regional economic development organizations, community groups, civic leaders, educational institutions, and workforce partners in the Indiana and Kentucky 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

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, and land use, including how large electricity needs are served by local utilities and rural electric cooperatives

Build a community engagement playbook and repeatable processes that scale as Anthropic's infrastructure footprint grows

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 county and municipal 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 Indiana or Kentucky or willing to relocate to one of them, and prepared to travel regularly across both states

Preferred qualifications

7+ years of experience in community engagement specifically on data center, utility, energy, or large-scale industrial infrastructure projects, or in local government

Familiarity with land use, zoning, and permitting processes at the county and municipal level in Indiana and/or Kentucky, including local tax abatement and incentive approvals

Experience managing corporate social responsibility programs

Established relationships with economic development, workforce, or civic organizations in the markets this role covers

Experience working with real estate, legal, communications, and policy teams at the same time

A genuine interest in the communities where you work, not just the projects you are managing

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.

$265,000 - $295,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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.

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.