Policy Communications Manager

Anthropic; New York (NY); On-site; USD 265,000 - 295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an experienced Policy Communications Manager to shape external communications for security, governance, and Responsible Scaling Policy programs. You will partner with security, product, legal, governance, and RSP teams to articulate Anthropic’s approach to safe AI, governance structures, and transparency initiatives.

The role focuses on proactive storytelling, managing sensitive topics, and building relationships with journalists and influencers to position Anthropic’s

Qualifications

• Experience in policy communications, including managing communications around complex security or governance topics.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex technical topics for broad audiences.
• Experience in issues management and developing reactive communications under pressure and tight timelines.
• Strong executive management skills and a proven ability to work across technical and non-technical teams.
• A track record of building media relationships.
• A results-oriented, high-agency working style with flexibility and impact.
• Comfort operating in new terrain where technology evolves quickly.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute communications strategies for Anthropic's approach to AI security, governance, and responsible scaling.
• Drive external communications about governance including LTBT and public benefit status.
• Serve as a trusted communications partner to security, product, legal, governance, and RSP leaders on sensitive matters.
• Develop proactive communications around regulatory frameworks and transparency obligations.
• Manage reactive inbound media requests on complex security and governance topics.
• Build and maintain relationships with journalists and influencers in security, governance, and tech policy.
• Prepare executives for media interviews and speaking engagements, developing thought leadership opportunities.
• Write blog posts, statements, talking points, and other materials.

Skills

Policy communications

Executive management

Media relations

Crisis communications

Policy & governance

Job description

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're seeking an experienced Policy Communications Manager to help drive external communications for our security, governance, and responsible scaling programs, and associated work. This role offers the opportunity to help shape how Anthropic communicates about our approach to developing secure AI systems and products, our work to uphold and iterate on our Responsible Scaling Policy framework, and the unique corporate structure that keeps the company accountable to its mission, including our Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT) and our status as a public benefit corporation.

You'll partner closely with our security, product, legal, governance, and Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP) teams to communicate Anthropic's approach to building safe and secure AI models as the technology becomes increasingly capable across critical domains like cybersecurity. You'll also help lead communications about how Anthropic is governed: the role of the LTBT's independent trustees in overseeing the company and electing members of our board, the obligations that come with our public benefit corporation charter, and why we believe this structure matters as AI systems grow more powerful. As governments establish regulatory frameworks for frontier AI, you'll help articulate how Anthropic approaches its transparency obligations and public reporting commitments, translating evolving requirements into clear, credible external communications. This will include balancing proactive storytelling about product security updates and launches with thoughtful handling of reactive matters as they arise. We're charting new terrain communicating about fast-moving frontier model capabilities and threat surfaces, and about institutional structures few other companies have built. You'll bring strong communications fundamentals to the role but recognize that traditional approaches may not map cleanly to the novel issues we're tackling.

The ideal candidate is an experienced issues handler with strong executive management skills, attention to detail, and the judgment to navigate sensitive topics with care. You should be able to move quickly under pressure and tight deadlines, write crisply, and distill complex security, governance, and technical topics for a broad audience while maintaining accuracy. This is a unique opportunity to help define how one of the world's leading AI safety companies communicates about the security and governance challenges that will shape the future of the technology.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and execute communications strategies for Anthropic's approach to AI security, governance, and responsible scaling
• Drive external communications about Anthropic's corporate governance, including the Long-Term Benefit Trust and our public benefit corporation status, explaining how these structures provide independent oversight and accountability to our mission
• Serve as a trusted communications partner to security, product, legal, governance, and RSP leaders on sensitive, fast-moving matters
• Develop proactive communications around emerging regulatory frameworks and transparency obligations, including public reporting commitments, disclosure requirements, and Anthropic's engagement with oversight bodies
• Manage reactive inbound media requests on complex security and governance topics
• Build and maintain relationships with journalists and influencers covering security, corporate governance, and technology policy
• Prepare executives for media interviews, speaking engagements, and public appearances, developing thought leadership opportunities that position Anthropic's leaders as credible voices on AI security, governance, and responsible development
• Write blog posts, statements, talking points, and other communications materials that explain our security, governance, and responsible scaling work clearly and accessibly, maintaining accuracy
• Support reactive communications efforts with speed, accuracy, and sound judgment

Minimum qualifications:

• Experience in policy communications, including managing communications around complex security or governance topics
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex technical topics accurately for broad audiences
• Experience in issues management and developing reactive communications under pressure and tight timelines
• Strong executive management skills and a proven ability to work seamlessly across technical and non-technical teams
• A track record of building media relationships
• A results-oriented, high-agency working style, with a bias toward flexibility and impact
• Comfort operating in new terrain, where the technology is evolving quickly and the right communications approach may not yet exist
• A deep commitment to ensuring that transformative AI systems are developed safely

Preferred qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in policy communications, ideally at a high-growth technology company
• Experience communicating about corporate governance, regulatory affairs, or oversight structures, and comfort explaining novel institutional arrangements to broad audiences
• Existing relationships with security, governance, and tech policy reporters and influencers

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. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.