Executive Creative Director at Anthropic San Francisco, CA

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 400,000 - 570,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous vacation

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Join Anthropic in San Francisco as an Executive Creative Director, leading the creative vision and output of the brand. You will set a strategic direction that defines how Anthropic communicates about AI safety and capability, while building a world-class creative team.

The role involves translating complex concepts into compelling campaigns, ensuring excellence across all creative works, and championing innovative storytelling. Ideal candidates will have a strong creative background with over 15 years of leadership experience in relevant fields.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of creative leadership experience with a proven track record.
• Exceptional creative portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking across multiple mediums.
• Experience translating complex technical concepts into accessible creative work.

Responsibilities

• Establish creative vision for Anthropic across all touchpoints.
• Lead creative strategy development to align with business objectives.
• Direct and mentor a team of creative talent.

Skills

Creative leadership

Strategic thinking

Exceptional presentation skills

Passion for AI

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

Executive Creative Director job at Anthropic. San Francisco, CA.

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 seeking an exceptional Executive Creative Director to lead the creative vision and output of Anthropic. As the creative leader of the brand, you will set the creative direction that defines how Anthropic communicates with the world—from breakthrough brand campaigns to innovative product communications. You'll be responsible for ensuring every piece of creative work reflects our position as a leader in AI safety and capability, translating complex technical concepts into compelling, culturally resonant creative that advances our mission.

This is a foundational creative leadership role where you'll establish the creative standards and strategic direction that will define Anthropic's voice in the market. You'll build and lead a team of world-class creative talent, collaborate with senior leadership to champion bold creative ideas, and ensure our creative output sets new standards for how AI companies communicate.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and champion the creative vision for Anthropic across all touchpoints, from breakthrough brand campaigns to product launches to everyday communications
• Lead creative strategy development, translating business objectives and complex AI concepts into compelling ideas and executions
• Direct and mentor a team of creative directors, designers, writers, art directors, and other creative talent, fostering an environment where exceptional work thrives
• Present creative work to senior executives and stakeholders, articulating strategic rationale and defending creative decisions with confidence
• Partner with marketing, communications, product, research, policy, and go-to-market teams to ensure creative excellence across all customer touchpoints
• Set and maintain creative quality standards that reflect Anthropic's leadership position in AI
• Build and leverage relationships with top-tier creative agencies, production partners, and creative talent
• Guide the creative development process from concept through execution, ensuring work is strategically sound, creatively distinctive, and flawlessly executed
• Champion innovative approaches to storytelling and design that help audiences understand the transformative potential and importance of safe AI
• Balance creative ambition with business needs, ensuring work delivers on both creative excellence and strategic objectives
• Stay ahead of creative and cultural trends, bringing fresh perspectives and innovative approaches to the team

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 15+ years of creative leadership experience, with a proven track record of creating culturally defining work that drives business results
• Possess an exceptional creative portfolio demonstrating strategic thinking, conceptual innovation, and craft excellence across multiple mediums (brand, product, web, content, experiential)
• Have experience translating complex technical or scientific concepts into compelling, accessible creative work
• Can articulate creative strategy with clarity and conviction to C-level executives and cross-functional partners
• Have led creative teams at top-tier agencies or in-house studios, with experience recruiting, developing, and retaining world-class creative talent
• Demonstrate creative recognition through industry awards (D&AD, One Show, Cannes Lions, etc.)
• Are equally comfortable directing large-scale brand campaigns and ensuring excellence in high-volume creative work
• Have exceptional presentation skills and the gravitas to champion bold creative ideas with senior leadership
• Understand how to balance craft and speed, knowing when to push for perfection and when to prioritize momentum
• Are passionate about AI and its potential to benefit humanity, with curiosity about technical concepts and willingness to learn

Strong candidates may also have:

• Have experience working with technology companies, particularly in AI, emerging tech, or other complex technical fields
• Have led creative functions through periods of rapid growth and organizational scaling
• Have experience building in-house creative studios or hybrid models combining internal teams with agency partnerships
• Understand the unique creative challenges of creating work in highly technical or regulated industries
• Have experience with or knowledge of generative AI creative tools while maintaining a strong point of view on the role of human creativity
• Have worked on creative that has influenced public perception or shaped cultural conversations around complex topics
• Have experience creating creative work for both B2B and B2C audiences

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.

Annual Salary:

$400,000—$570,000 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.

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