Strategist, Policy Campaigns & Paid Media

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic in San Francisco seeks a strategy-focused professional to join the Policy Campaigns team within Public Policy. You will design and execute paid media campaigns, manage agencies, and measure impact across US policy priorities and select international markets.

This role blends strategy and program management: decide objectives, audiences, messages, and tactics, then lead cross-functional teams, guide timelines, and ensure campaigns stay on budget and deliver clear results.

Qualifications

• Experience running digital content and paid media for corporate affairs teams, political campaigns, or advocacy organizations.
• Experience managing creative and media-buying agencies, including briefs, scopes, budgets, and performance reviews.
• Experience running campaigns aimed at policymakers, key opinion formers, or other influential audiences.
• Experience managing several campaigns or projects at once with multiple agencies and stakeholders in different time zones.
• Experience building campaign reporting in spreadsheets or dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Design paid and digital campaign strategies for legislative and policy goals, including objectives, audiences, messaging, tactics, phasing, and budget.
• Develop campaign messaging and tactics with the Campaigns team, executives, Public Affairs, and Communications, ensuring paid media carries the core message.
• Coordinate with multiple stakeholders to avoid conflicts with other policy or international priorities and resolve tensions before launch.
• Direct creative and media-buying agencies: set strategy, briefs, scopes, budgets, timelines, and quality.
• Manage several campaigns across time zones and agencies: own timelines, workplans, budgets, and status reporting.
• Build rapid response capabilities with Policy, Marketing, Legal, and Communications for quick reactions.
• Set success measures before launch and report results clearly, adjusting strategy as needed.
• Work cross-functionally to translate policy arguments into concrete stories for policymakers and opinion formers.

Skills

Digital media strategy

Campaign management

Agency management

Policy communication

Analytics & reporting

Tools

Excel/Sheets

Dashboards

Job description

Anthropic in San Francisco seeks a strategy-focused professional to join the Policy Campaigns team within Public Policy. You will design and execute paid media campaigns, manage agencies, and measure impact across US policy priorities and select international markets.

This role blends strategy and program management: decide objectives, audiences, messages, and tactics, then lead cross-functional teams, guide timelines, and ensure campaigns stay on budget and deliver clear results.