External Affairs, US Federal at anthropic | AI Job Board

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 are looking for a Federal Policy partner to lead and operationalize Anthropic's engagement with Senate Republicans and related stakeholders to drive AI policy that advances Anthropic's mission of ensuring that artificial intelligence systems are developed safely and benefit humanity.

In this role, you will work closely with the government affairs team and the broader organization to translate strategic objectives into executable federal policy campaigns that shape the policy infrastructure. You will advise internal stakeholders, shape policy positions, develop advocacy strategies, and build and manage policymaker relationships to advance our policy goals.

Anthropic is equal parts research lab, policy think-tank, and technology startup. We care deeply about the safe development of AI systems, and build partnerships with governments through proactive, opinionated, substantive policy conversations. Our approach to AI policy is genuinely distinctive — grounded in honest assessment of technological trajectories and authentic concern for safe scaling — and we need federal affairs professionals who understand how to operationalize that positioning creatively and strategically.

This role offers a rare opportunity to shape AI governance at a critical moment. Federal AI policy is being written right now, and this is the most consequential technology policy debate in a generation. The decisions made in the next 2-3 years will shape how AI develops globally. You will work alongside leadership who are deeply engaged on policy and serve as partners in this work.

Key responsibilities

Advise internal stakeholders to help inform and develop public policy positions that advance Anthropic's mission
Translate complex policy issues into effective advocacy strategies, executing campaigns across issue sets while managing diverse stakeholder groups and leveraging communications, third-party groups, political engagement, and internal and external resources
Build and maintain key relationships with Members of the Senate Republican conference
Identify targets, cement relationships, and align them to Anthropic's policy priorities through proactive, substantive engagement — leading with substance, not just relationships
Work in tandem with Federal Affairs partners to share information, align on strategy, and execute; support the integration of the federal affairs team with key internal stakeholders across policy, communications, legal, and executive functions
Maintain accountability in driving outcomes, working with leadership to align on key results and track execution against strategic objectives with measurable milestones
Synthesize complex political dynamics into clear strategic recommendations for leadership, managing up effectively and building confidence through transparency on progress and risk

Minimum qualifications

Experience working on policy within government or as a policy advocate, with demonstrated success winning legislative and regulatory outcomes in contested policy areas
Established relationships with key policymakers and officials in the Senate, and a demonstrated track record of building substantive relationships with senior policymakers
Policy drafting and analysis skills: legislative and regulatory analysis, policy memos and position papers, advocacy messaging, and briefing materials for senior leadership
Experience executing multi-dimensional policy campaigns, including managing outside counsel, coalitions, third-party groups, and communications resources
Ability to translate strategic objectives into executable plans with clear milestones and measurable outcomes
Ability to manage across multiple substantive policy domains without deep expertise in each area, including validating others' work and asking incisive questions to inform strategy
Based in or willing to relocate to Washington, DC

Preferred qualifications

Experience in technology policy, emerging technology regulation, or policy areas affected by rapid innovation and technological change, with an understanding of how to navigate the policy gaps that disruptive change creates
Experience thinking in terms of leading indicators and articulating progress toward policy wins to senior leadership
Experience synthesizing complex policy dynamics into clear strategic counsel for leadership and internal stakeholders, and managing internal stakeholders to build trust, confidence, and partnership
Experience translating complex technical topics into politically viable policy positions and messaging in environments with significant institutional resistance or uncertainty
Alignment with our mission and enthusiasm for the imperative of policy impact and change
Drawn to working with an organization that approaches AI policy with intensity and intellectual honesty, and able to operationalize and leverage that positioning as a competitive advantage

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.

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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

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.