Louisiana Data Center Community Engagement Lead

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

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Community Engagement Manager in Louisiana to serve as a local on-the-ground partner for policy and infrastructure teams. You will cultivate relationships with parish officials, economic partners, and residents, surfacing concerns and translating plans into local benefits.

You will travel within Louisiana (up to 50% and beyond) to build coalitions, manage sessions, and shape engagement playbooks that scale with our growth while aligning with safety and community values.

Qualifications

• Experience in community affairs, public affairs, economic development, government relations, local or state government, or a closely related field.
• Direct experience working for parish 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 Louisiana or willing to relocate there, and prepared to travel regularly across the state.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain trusted, sustained relationships with parish presidents and councils, police juries, mayors and municipal officials, parish planning and zoning bodies, port, levee, and drainage districts, state economic development agencies, community groups, civic leaders, educational institutions, and workforce partners in the Louisiana 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 flood risk, storm resilience, and how large electricity needs are served by local utilities.
• Build a community engagement playbook and repeatable processes that scale as Anthropic's infrastructure footprint grows

Skills

Community engagement

Public affairs

Government relations

Stakeholder relations

Strategy development

Public speaking

Coalition building

Policy translation

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Community Engagement Manager in Louisiana to serve as a local on-the-ground partner for policy and infrastructure teams. You will cultivate relationships with parish officials, economic partners, and residents, surfacing concerns and translating plans into local benefits.

You will travel within Louisiana (up to 50% and beyond) to build coalitions, manage sessions, and shape engagement playbooks that scale with our growth while aligning with safety and community values.