Communications Manager, Safeguards

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 seeking a strategic communications professional to join our team and drive messaging for Anthropic’s Safeguards (Trust & Safety) work, with a focus on making these critical topics accessible and meaningful for everyday users. In this role, you'll craft compelling narratives that resonate with policymakers, researchers, media, and the broader public that help differentiate Anthropic’s approach to building responsible AI.

The ideal candidate is highly skilled and a creative storyteller with strong proactive and reactive muscle. This role will require working with technical teams to distill complex, technical information into engaging campaigns and editorial that resonate broadly. They should be able to move fast, think critically, and work collaboratively with a wide range of teams on complex issues.

This is a unique opportunity to shape how one of the world's leading AI companies communicates about safety and responsible development of AI systems at a crucial moment in the industry.

What you'll do:

• Develop and execute communications strategies that explain the work Anthropic's Safeguards team is doing, with particular emphasis on helping everyday users understand our safety measures.

• Craft messaging for major company announcements and milestones that resonates with both technical and non-technical audiences

• Build strong relationships with journalists and relevant influencers.

• Lead cross-functional communications projects that align that align safeguards, research, product, policy, and legal teams around shared messaging and campaigns

• Provide communications counsel to a wide range of stakeholders across the company, including leadership.

• Effectively plan for and manage communications risks.

• Oversee executive interviews and speaking engagements.

• Work with agencies to drive communications goals.

• Develop and execute strategic communications initiatives that position Anthropic's safeguards approach as a competitive differentiator

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 8+ years of experience working in communications, ideally at a high-growth technology company with consumer facing products.

• Have a strong record of building proactive communications campaigns that resonate with a diverse range of audiences.

• Excel at translating complex technical language into compelling messaging that connects with everyday users and are a superb written and verbal communicator.

• Are excellent at media relations and issues management.

• Have experience working with research teams and enjoy working cross-functionally with a range of technical and non-technical teams.

• Want to be part of a fast-paced, small, experienced, and impactful team.

• Are excited to translate insights about AI for broader audiences.

• Are results-oriented, with a bias toward flexibility and impact.

• Care about ensuring that transformative AI systems are developed safely.

Strong candidates may have:

• Experience working in AI, technology policy, trust and safety comms, user safety or research-driven environments

• Background working with technical teams including researchers, engineers, or product developers

• Track record of crisis communications or managing sensitive issues in the public eye

• Experience communicating about emerging technologies or controversial technical topics

• Understanding of the AI safety, security, or responsible technology ecosystem

The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.

Annual Salary:

$200,000—$255,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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.

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