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
The External Affairs Manager will build and manage Anthropic’s relationships with third-party policy organizations, including think tanks, academic institutions, and advocacy groups, in support of the company's mission and policy priorities.

You will serve as the primary relationship owner for a defined community of external organizations. The role requires someone who can build trust and credibility over time, deliver value to partners through access to Anthropic's technical expertise and policy thinking, and activate those relationships when they can advance specific policy outcomes. You will also serve as a source of intelligence, surfacing shifts in sentiment, emerging positions, and strategic opportunities from within your community to inform Anthropic's broader policy efforts.

Anthropic is equal parts research lab, policy think-tank, and technology startup. We approach AI policy from first principles through proactive, substantive engagement with governments and civil society. This is a unique opportunity to shape how AI policy develops at a critical moment.

In This Role, You Will:

• Own and manage relationships with a defined community of third-party policy organizations

• Build durable partnerships by delivering value to partner organizations, including briefings on AI developments, access to technical expertise, and opportunities for co-authored research or co-hosted events

• Define and execute strategies tailored to each unique third-party organization and specific Anthropic policy priorities

• Translate Anthropic's policy positions into framing and engagements that resonate with the specific orientation and audience of your assigned community

• Activate relationships in support of Anthropic's policy campaigns, including sign-on letters, testimony, published research, public statements, and media engagement

• Monitor emerging positions and shifting dynamics within your community and surface that intelligence to inform campaign and policy strategy

• Proactively identify opportunities where third-party engagement can strengthen Anthropic's policy objectives

• Facilitate connections between partner organizations and Anthropic's policy experts, government relations leads, and senior leadership

You May Be a Good Fit If You:

• Have 10+ years of experience building and maintaining productive relationships with Washington policy organizations, with a demonstrated ability to activate those relationships for policy outcomes

• Understand how think tanks, academic institutions, and advocacy groups operate, including their incentives, funding models, and constraints

• Have existing relationship depth and credibility within one or more ideological communities (conservative, progressive, or civil rights organizations)

• Can translate technical policy positions into engagements that resonate with organizations across different orientations

• Are comfortable working in coordination with campaign and government relations teams, with the understanding that your role is to own the relationships while campaign strategy is driven by others

• Are based in or willing to relocate to Washington, DC

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—$265,000 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.

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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