Community Engagement Manager, Data Centers (Montana & Utah)

Anthropic Limited; United States; Hybrid; USD 265.000 - 295.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation & parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space in San Francisco

Zusammenfassung

Anthropic Limited is seeking a Community Engagement Manager for Montana and Utah to serve as our on‑the‑ground presence in local communities. You will connect Anthropic with county and municipal leaders, tribal governments, and civic organizations, ensuring constructive dialogue from site selection through long‑term operations.

You will develop market‑specific engagement strategies, build coalitions, and translate technical plans into clear local benefits while coordinating with policy,

Qualifikationen

• Experience in community affairs, public affairs or government relations.
• Direct engagement with county/municipal governments on large projects.
• Ability to translate complex plans into plain language for local officials.

Aufgaben

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with local government bodies and community groups.
• Engage with Tribal governments and Native communities with respect to projects.
• Develop and execute community engagement strategies for Montana and Utah markets.
• Build coalitions, host sessions, and design local solutions delivering community benefits.
• Represent Anthropic in public forums, hearings, events, and media.
• Monitor sentiment and advise teams on risks and engagement pace.
• Collaborate with Real Estate, Infrastructure, Communications, Energy teams.
• Coordinate charitable giving and economic development commitments.
• Explain environmental stewardship and utility considerations to communities.
• Create a scalable community engagement playbook for growth.

Kenntnisse

Relationship building

Public speaking

Policy communication

Strategic planning

Stakeholder engagement

Project management

Crisis management

Team collaboration

Travel willingness

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Jobbeschreibung

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.

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 Montana and Utah 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 elevate, 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 Montana and Utah, up to 50% of the time, often over long distances, and occasionally to other Anthropic data center markets.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain trusted, sustained relationships with county commissioners, mayors and city and town councils, planning and zoning bodies, state economic development agencies (such as Montana's Department of Commerce and Utah's Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity), community groups, civic leaders, educational institutions, and workforce partners in the Montana and Utah data center markets you cover
• Engage respectfully and meaningfully with Tribal governments and Native communities in Montana and Utah, recognizing Tribal sovereignty, building sustained relationships, and supporting consultation and partnership efforts related to our projects
• 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 water availability and water rights in a dry climate and how rural electric cooperatives and utilities would serve large electricity needs
• Build a community engagement playbook and repeatable processes that scale as Anthropic's infrastructure footprint grows

Minimum 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 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 Montana or Utah or willing to relocate to one of them, and prepared to travel regularly, including long drives, 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 Montana and/or Utah, and with water rights and water use questions in the Mountain West
• 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
• Experience working with Tribal governments and Native communities in Montana or Utah, including familiarity with consultation processes, Tribal sovereignty and treaty considerations, or community benefit and partnership agreements
• 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.

Annual Salary

$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.

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