Communications Specialist, Product

Anthropic Anthropic · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Communications

Communications Specialist for Anthropic's AI products, focusing on external storytelling, translating complex AI capabilities into understandable narratives for developers, customers, journalists, and creators. Responsibilities include owning communications for feature updates, supporting model and product launches, drafting press materials, and managing relationships with media and influencers in the AI space.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own communications for feature updates and launches end to end, and provide strong support on model launches and flagship product launches
  2. Help surface the launches, demos, and capability stories worth telling, and support the team in finding the right channel for each
  3. Help develop messaging and draft the materials that carry it — press releases, talking points, FAQs, blog posts, briefing docs — translating Claude's capabilities into something a user or journalist can actually grasp
  4. Support relationships with the journalists, newsletter writers, podcasters, and creators shaping how people talk about AI
  5. Help prepare product and research leaders to be effective spokespeople

Skills

Required

  • 5–8 years of experience in communications or PR
  • strong proactive and reactive instincts
  • genuine curiosity about the products and the technology behind them
  • judgment to handle nuanced, fast-moving topics
  • move fast, think critically, and collaborate across a wide range of technical and non-technical teams
  • clear, concise writer across formats — press materials, messaging, briefing docs
  • highly online and fluent in where technical conversations happen, from developer forums to X to Hacker News
  • collaborative team player who works well with others

Nice to have

  • experience at an AI company, research lab, or technical product company
  • Are a Claude user across our apps and have a clear sense of what's working and what isn't
  • experience supporting frontier model launches or technical product launches
  • existing relationships with reporters and creators covering AI
  • strong product instincts, and the judgment to read timing and tone when the conversation around AI gets noisy

What the JD emphasized

  • experience at an AI company
  • experience supporting frontier model launches or technical product launches
  • strong product instincts
  • clear, concise writer across formats