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Public Policy, Strategic Advisory
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 hiring a strategic advisor to join the Strategic Advisory team within Policy Advocacy, part of Anthropic’s Public Policy team. This is an individual contributor role at the strategic heart of Anthropic’s policy function — designed for an operator with 8–10+ years of experience who wants to drive clarity on Anthropic’s most consequential policy positions, partner with cross-functional peers, and be deployed as a strategic resource across fast-moving policy work.

Policy Advocacy turns Anthropic’s policy priorities into evidence-backed positions, research, campaigns, and partnerships — distinct from government relations and communications, but essential to enabling both. This role is designed to complement our existing Strategic Advisory capacity, which owns the documentation, translation, and deployment of Anthropic’s positions so that external-facing teams can use them. You’ll bring experience and judgment into the room, hold responsibility for a portfolio of strategically important positions, and partner as a peer with leaders across the policy, legal, comms, and product policy functions, working with colleagues on teams across the company on positions and messaging.

The ideal candidate is effective across multiple stakeholders even through substantive disagreement, prioritizes closure over deliberation, and organized and process-focused but able to operate in ambiguity. Successful candidates will have experience building structure where none exists, including under unclear ownership and shifting priorities. We prize doers willing to do the work directly, no matter how small or large. Strategic and systems thinkers that understand how individual positions and engagements fit together across the broader policy landscape are encouraged to apply.

Examples of work in this role might include producing a position package end-to-end: pressure-testing the position with internal SMEs (policy, legal, research), identifying and closing gaps, and producing the full set of deployable materials. Translating new technical research or policy analysis into policy-ready materials on short timelines for use by federal, state, and international affairs teams. Building and running a structured process to resolve a contested position and documenting the outcome. Leading the cross-functional policy strategy for a major launch, including alignment across policy, legal, comms, and research on external narrative, broader policy implications, and rapid-response plans. Standing up a cross-functional working group on an emerging platform or corporate issue, including scoping the problem, driving alignment across teams, producing a written strategy, and standing up the workstream. Distilling Anthropic’s approach to a complex or evolving issue into a deployable narrative, and integrating the output into the canon.

This role offers a rare opportunity to shape Anthropic’s policy voice across the most consequential debates in AI governance, while operating with the pace, pragmatism, and service orientation of a top-tier public affairs function.

Key responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of Anthropic’s highest-priority policy positions, including position papers, FAQs, talking points, and fact sheets — managing versions, intended audiences, strategic relevance, and internal access.

• Drive organizational consensus on contested technical policy positions — working with subject matter experts across federal affairs, state affairs, international affairs, national security, legal, comms, and research — moderating dissent, calling the question, and closing the loop on documented positions.

• Develop and test message framings with internal and external audiences, iterating quickly and bringing rigor to what lands and why.

• Translate technical research, model capability, and scientific content into policy-ready language for federal, state, and international policymakers, their staff, and legislators.

• Serve federal, state, and international affairs teams as an internal senior advisor — improving their processes, standing up shared material libraries, and building the collateral and strategies they need to be effective in their markets.

• Drive complex, cross-functional policy projects to resolution when no single team is set up to own them end to end — including model launch policy strategy, narrative coordination on contested issues, and working groups on emerging topics.

• Stand up rapid-response playbooks when time-sensitive events require Anthropic to move in days rather than weeks, coordinating across legal, research, and external affairs.

• Partner with policy communications to ensure message and voice consistency across Anthropic’s policy surface area.

• Anticipate emerging issues, proactively work with internal experts to develop Anthropic’s perspective, and make sure we have the materials we need before external pressure emerges.

Minimum qualifications

• Have direct experience with message development and testing for policy, advocacy, or communications audiences.

• Have experience translating technical material (scientific, engineering, or deeply technical policy) for non-expert decision-makers.

• Are comfortable operating at breadth across multiple policy issue areas simultaneously, and can develop fluency in new ones quickly. Interest in and some experience with technology policy is important; deep AI policy expertise is a plus, not a prerequisite.

• Have experience building or running rapid-response processes, crisis playbooks, or signature programs in fast-moving environments.

• Can serve internal clients — federal, state, and international affairs colleagues — without needing to own external relationships yourself. You find that service posture energizing, not limiting.

Preferred qualifications

• Have 8–10+ years of professional experience in corporate public affairs, management consulting, government relations, policy or political campaigns, think tanks, or similar fast-paced, cross-functional environments.

• Experience in technology, financial services, energy, pharma, or other heavily regulated industries.

• Demonstrated ability to anticipate emerging issues and develop organizational perspectives proactively.

• Experience designing and running a signature program or flagship campaign end-to-end.

• Experience translating topics to policy-relevant audiences through communications, visual storytelling, marketing, or advocacy.

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.

For roles performing work in California: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

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.

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What this posting asks for

Level: Senior — The posting asks for 10+ years of experience.

Main responsibilities

Own a portfolio of Anthropic’s highest-priority policy positions, including position papers, FAQs, talking points, and fact sheets — managing versions, inten…
Drive organizational consensus on contested technical policy positions — working with subject matter experts across federal affairs, state affairs, internati…
Develop and test message framings with internal and external audiences, iterating quickly and bringing rigor to what lands and why.
Translate technical research, model capability, and scientific content into policy-ready language for federal, state, and international policymakers, their s…
Serve federal, state, and international affairs teams as an internal senior advisor — improving their processes, standing up shared material libraries, and b…
Drive complex, cross-functional policy projects to resolution when no single team is set up to own them end to end — including model launch policy strategy, …
Stand up rapid-response playbooks when time-sensitive events require Anthropic to move in days rather than weeks, coordinating across legal, research, and ex…
Partner with policy communications to ensure message and voice consistency across Anthropic’s policy surface area.
Anticipate emerging issues, proactively work with internal experts to develop Anthropic’s perspective, and make sure we have the materials we need before ext…
Have direct experience with message development and testing for policy, advocacy, or communications audiences.

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Communication Core
In the posting: “Policy Advocacy turns Anthropic’s policy priorities into evidence-backed positions, research, campaigns, and partnerships — distinct from government relation…” · “This role is designed to complement our existing Strategic Advisory capacity, which owns the documentation, translation, and deployment of Anthropic’s positi…” · “Partner with policy communications to ensure message and voice consistency across Anthropic’s policy surface area.”
Show it by: Adapts the message to the listener; Gives an example of explaining something clearly in writing or speech.
Teamwork and collaboration Core
In the posting: “This is an individual contributor role at the strategic heart of Anthropic’s policy function — designed for an operator with 8–10+ years of experience who wa…” · “Leading the cross-functional policy strategy for a major launch, including alignment across policy, legal, comms, and research on external narrative, broader…” · “Standing up a cross-functional working group on an emerging platform or corporate issue, including scoping the problem, driving alignment across teams, produ…”
Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled.
Ownership and accountability Core
In the posting: “Successful candidates will have experience building structure where none exists, including under unclear ownership and shifting priorities.” · “Examples of work in this role might include producing a position package end-to-end: pressure-testing the position with internal SMEs (policy, legal, researc…” · “Drive complex, cross-functional policy projects to resolution when no single team is set up to own them end to end — including model launch policy strategy, …”
Show it by: Takes a task from start to finish without being chased; Owns a mistake and what was changed after it.
Planning and organisation Core
In the posting: “Policy Advocacy turns Anthropic’s policy priorities into evidence-backed positions, research, campaigns, and partnerships — distinct from government relation…” · “The ideal candidate is effective across multiple stakeholders even through substantive disagreement, prioritizes closure over deliberation, and organized and…” · “Successful candidates will have experience building structure where none exists, including under unclear ownership and shifting priorities.”
Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how.
Attention to detail and quality Core
In the posting: “Examples of work in this role might include producing a position package end-to-end: pressure-testing the position with internal SMEs (policy, legal, researc…” · “Have direct experience with message development and testing for policy, advocacy, or communications audiences.” · “Your safety matters to us.”
Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used.
Stakeholder management Core
In the posting: “The ideal candidate is effective across multiple stakeholders even through substantive disagreement, prioritizes closure over deliberation, and organized and…” · “Leading the cross-functional policy strategy for a major launch, including alignment across policy, legal, comms, and research on external narrative, broader…” · “Standing up a cross-functional working group on an emerging platform or corporate issue, including scoping the problem, driving alignment across teams, produ…”
Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior.
Adaptability and learning Core
In the posting: “The ideal candidate is effective across multiple stakeholders even through substantive disagreement, prioritizes closure over deliberation, and organized and…” · “We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely…”
Show it by: Describes learning something new quickly and using it; Shows a change of plan and how they adjusted.
Technical skill Supporting
In the posting: “Have experience translating technical material (scientific, engineering, or deeply technical policy) for non-expert decision-makers.”
Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off.
Problem solving Supporting
In the posting: “Building and running a structured process to resolve a contested position and documenting the outcome.”
Show it by: Describes a real problem, the options considered and the one chosen; Shows how the cause was found, not just the fix.
Customer focus Supporting
In the posting: “Can serve internal clients — federal, state, and international affairs colleagues — without needing to own external relationships yourself.”
Show it by: Puts the customer's need in their own words; Shows a result for the customer, not only for the company.
Data and analysis Supporting
In the posting: “Translating new technical research or policy analysis into policy-ready materials on short timelines for use by federal, state, and international affairs teams.”
Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it.

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