Public Policy, Strategic Advisory (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA or Washington, DC, United States. Hybrid policy: staff are expected to work from one of the offices at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more office time.

Annual salary: $265,000–$295,000 USD

Company

Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems intended to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Own a portfolio of high-priority policy positions, including position papers, FAQs, talking points, and fact sheets.
• Drive consensus on contested technical policy positions across federal, state, and international affairs, legal, communications, national security, and research teams.
• Develop and test policy message framings and translate technical research, model capabilities, and scientific content into policy-ready language.
• Advise federal, state, and international affairs teams by improving processes, building shared material libraries, and producing strategies and collateral.
• Lead complex cross-functional projects, including model-launch policy strategy, emerging-topic working groups, and rapid-response playbooks.
• Anticipate emerging issues and coordinate consistent messaging across Anthropic’s policy communications and external affairs work.

Requirements

• Direct experience developing and testing messages for policy, advocacy, or communications audiences.
• Experience translating scientific, engineering, or deeply technical policy material for non-expert decision-makers.
• Ability to work across multiple policy areas and develop fluency in new areas quickly; interest in and some experience with technology policy are important.
• Experience building or running rapid-response processes, crisis playbooks, or signature programs in fast-moving environments.
• Ability to serve federal, state, and international affairs colleagues as internal clients without needing to own external relationships.
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience, in a field relevant to the role.

Nice to have

• 8–10+ years of professional experience in corporate public affairs, management consulting, government relations, policy or political campaigns, think tanks, or similar cross-functional environments.
• Experience in technology, financial services, energy, pharma, or other heavily regulated industries.
• Experience anticipating emerging issues and proactively developing organizational perspectives.
• Experience designing and running a signature program or flagship campaign end to end.
• Experience translating topics for policy-relevant audiences through communications, visual storytelling, marketing, or advocacy.
• Deep AI policy expertise.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative public-benefit-company environment focused on safe, trustworthy, and beneficial AI.
• Flexible working hours, generous vacation and parental leave, competitive compensation, and optional equity donation matching.
• Office-based collaboration with frequent research discussions and a strong emphasis on communication.
• Visa sponsorship may be available; Anthropic makes reasonable efforts to support visas and retains an immigration lawyer, although sponsorship cannot be guaranteed for every role or candidate.

Hiring process

• Applicants are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every listed qualification.
• Applicants should review Anthropic’s policy on AI usage during the application process.