Head of AI Safety Policy & Harm Mitigation

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 330,000 - 395,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space in SF

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a leader to direct the Safeguards organization, shaping policy, evaluations, and enforcement for Claude usage across multiple harm areas. You will mentor managers, drive strategy, and collaborate with product, research, and engineering to implement effective mitigations.

The role demands deep domain knowledge in AI safety and strong cross-team collaboration, ensuring policies scale with frontier models and align with company objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams including managers or senior specialists in AI safety, product policy, or related field.
• Deep familiarity with consumer harm areas (child safety, wellbeing, manipulation, election integrity).
• Strong cross-team collaboration with distributed ownership decisions.
• Understanding of frontier model development, training/fine-tuning cycles, and deployment contexts.
• Ability to translate policy into enforceable, measurable mechanisms and communicate with diverse audiences.
• Sound judgment in ambiguous, high-consequence decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow managers and teams responsible for consumer harms portfolio (child safety, user well-being, manipulation, election integrity).
• Coordinate policy decisions across portfolio and maintain clear documentation of decisions and ownership.
• Set strategy for mitigations on top of models, in partnership with alignment teams and product surfaces.
• Prioritize harms areas, justify tradeoffs to leadership.
• Serve as escalation point for high-severity decisions and rapid risk responses.
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, product, legal, and research across development cycles.

Skills

Team leadership

AI safety

Policy design

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a leader to direct the Safeguards organization, shaping policy, evaluations, and enforcement for Claude usage across multiple harm areas. You will mentor managers, drive strategy, and collaborate with product, research, and engineering to implement effective mitigations.

The role demands deep domain knowledge in AI safety and strong cross-team collaboration, ensuring policies scale with frontier models and align with company objectives.