Policy Communications Lead, Corporate Communications

Anthropic seeks an exceptional corporate communications professional to promote understanding and awareness of the organization’s mission and policy perspectives.
Reporting to the Head of Corporate Communications, you will work with policy, legal and external affairs to educate press and policy makers about our products and principles.
The ideal candidate should be a highly skilled media handler who is used to working in a fast paced environment.
They should have the ability to move fast, think critically and work collaboratively on complex issues.
A deep understanding of the technology sector and Anthropic’s varied audiences is key.
About Anthropic: Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our customers and for society as a whole.
Our interdisciplinary team has experience across ML, physics, policy, business and product.
Responsibilities: Partner cross functionally with the policy, legal and product team to prepare for announcements, launches and to handle inbound media requests Develop and execute communications strategies which effectively communicate our products and plans to key stakeholders Build strong relationships with journalists and relevant influencers Oversee production of company blog posts and other communications collateral Oversee executive interviews and speaking engagements You may be a good fit if you: Have 10+ years of experience working in corporate or policy communications, ideally at a high growth technology company Want to be part of a fast-paced, small, experienced and impactful team Are excellent at media relations and issues management and have deep experience of driving media campaigns in support of policy priorities and issues Are a superb written and verbal communicator Enjoy working cross-functionally with a range of technical and non-technical teams Are excited to translate insights about AI for broader audiences Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact Care about ensuring that transformative AI systems are developed safely Sample projects: Lead the communications planning and execution of major company announcements Manage fast moving inbound press enquiries on complex issues Develop and manage Anthropic’s public content, which will provide overviews of our policy principles and outputs Annual Salary (USD) The expected salary range for this position is $240k-$300k We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.
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.
Compensation and Benefits* Anthropic’s compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits.
We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates.
Equity - On top of this position's salary (listed above), equity will be a major component of the total compensation.
We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.
US Benefits - The following benefits are for our US-based employees: - Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching.
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more! - Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness.
- Fertility benefits via Carrot.
- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.
UK Benefits - The following benefits are for our UK-based employees: - Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.
- Private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
- Pension contribution (matching 4% of your salary).
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more! - Health cash plan.
- Life insurance and income protection.
- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
* This compensation and benefits information is based on Anthropic’s good faith estimate for this position as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.
Employees based outside of the UK or US will receive a different benefits package.
The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors, including where you place on our internal performance ladders, which is based on factors including past work experience, relevant education, and performance on our interviews or in a work trial.
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.
We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both as needed.
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 based 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.