Policy Communications Manager, Responsible Scaling, Security, and Governance

Anthropic

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 265,000 - 295,000

Full time

10 hours ago

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Competitive compensation

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Generous vacation and parental leave

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Job summary

Anthropic Limited seeks an experienced Policy Communications Manager to lead external communications for security, governance, and responsible scaling programs. You will shape how Anthropic communicates its approach to secure AI systems, Responsible Scaling Policy, and LTBT governance to a broad audience.

You’ll collaborate with security, product, legal, governance, and RSP teams to translate complex topics into clear, credible communications, balancing proactive updates with reactive handling

Qualifications

Experience in policy communications handling complex security or governance topics.
Excellent written and verbal communication, distilling technical topics for broad audiences.
Experience in issues management and reactive communications under tight deadlines.
Strong executive management skills and ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
Track record of building media relationships.
Results-driven with high-agency and flexible approach.
Comfort navigating emerging tech issues where standard approaches don’t map.
Commitment to ensuring safe development of transformative AI.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute communications strategies for AI security, governance, and responsible scaling.
Explain corporate governance structures (LTBT, public benefit corporation) and provide independent oversight narrative.
Serve as a trusted partner to security, product, legal, governance, and RSP leaders on sensitive matters.
Address emerging regulatory frameworks and transparency obligations, including public reporting commitments.
Manage reactive inbound media requests on security and governance topics.
Build media relationships with journalists and influencers covering security and policy.
Prepare executives for media interviews and public engagements; develop thought leadership.
Write communications materials that clearly explain security, governance, and responsible scaling work.
Support reactive communications with speed, accuracy, and sound judgment.

Skills

Policy communications

Written and verbal communication

Issues management

Cross-functional collaboration

Media relationships

High-agency, flexible

Ability to handle sensitive topics

Commitment to safe AI

Education

Bachelor’s degree

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

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.

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.

What Makes Us 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.

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