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 an External Affairs lead to guide and execute our strategic engagements primarily in Germany, but also supporting the work of the wider EMEA team, particularly in central and eastern Europe. Working as part of the International Policy Team, based in the US, and the EMEA policy team, this role will help to shape Anthropic's approach to policy and regulatory developments in Germany and central Europe during a critical period in AI development and governance. You will be the day to day point of contact for the German government and its partners, ensuring that Anthropic’s leadership understands their priorities, and translating technology and policy developments within Anthropic for government and public sector policy partners. You will also work closely with our EMEA public sector sales team to support public sector deployment of Claude in high-leverage use cases that strengthen our mission, enhance government efficiency, and improve situational awareness of AI and emergent capabilities. This role is based in Berlin/Munich.
As part of the EMEA Policy Team, in this role you will:
Lead policy engagement with the German and local governments and public sector partners on issues related to government policy and regulatory implications for frontier labs
Engage key policy stakeholders (e.g., via briefings, consultations, demos, roundtables), in coordination with the wider EMEA policy team
Partner with the EMEA GTM team to support commercial efforts as appropriate
Support and promote public-private research collaborations
Build a coalition of government agencies, nonprofits, safety institutes, and academics in Germany and central Europe to share knowledge around AI policy and regulation
Collaborate with technical teams to translate Anthropic research into concrete policy proposals, stakeholder education, and thought leadership opportunities
You may be a good fit if you:
Have 10+ years of experience working in public policy, corporate affairs, or a combination of government and related private sector experience
Are high-agency, able to develop and execute strategy independently, taking account of dependencies with other cross-functional teams within Anthropic (including but not limited to policy, go-to-market, trust and safety, legal, product, research, comms, and marketing).
Possess strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly when briefing policymakers and government officials
Have demonstrated interest and experience in AI and the associated policy and regulatory questions that it poses (cybersecurity, copyright, skills, data protection, etc.)
Have had experience of working in or with the German governmental system
Are willing/able to engage with national governments across central Europe as Anthropic grows its presence in EMEA.
This role is based in Berlin/Munich. This job will also require travel in EMEA (once or twice per quarter) and occasionally to the United States.
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