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.
The Role
The Policy Campaign Manager will own and operationalize the campaign plan for one or more policy priorities of the Americas Policy Team across North America. You will drive execution across government relations, communications, coalitions, external organizations and public affairs campaigns. Your job is to make sure every function is coordinated, every deliverable lands on time, and Anthropic is advancing its position through every available channel. Think of it as product management for policy outcomes.
This is an orchestration and execution role, not a lobbying or policy development role, but you will partner closely with those functions. You will drive coordinated, multifaceted campaigns to help Anthropic’s external teams achieve policy objectives, pulling together the right people, the right substance, and the right sequencing across every channel.
Anthropic is equal parts research lab, policy think-tank, and technology startup. We care deeply about safe development of AI systems, and build partnership with governments through proactive, opinionated, substantive policy conversations. This is a unique opportunity to shape how AI policy develops at a critical moment, translating Anthropic’s technical and policy expertise into real-world impact.
What You'll Do
- Co-develop and maintain the integrated campaign plan for each assigned policy issue, supporting government relations, coalition building, media, grassroots, grasstops, polling, and events.
- Proactively advance Anthropic's policy priorities within external organizations (trade associations and advocacy coalitions) by shaping agendas, proposing position papers, and building support among other member organizations for positions aligned with our objectives.
- Build and manage issue-specific coalitions and public affairs advocacy campaigns
- Own the response process when external organizations circulate draft position papers, comment letters, or policy statements for member input: coordinate internal review, pull substance from Central Policy, Product Public Policy, and/or legal, and deliver on deadline
- Own the internal response process for formal inquiries from Congress, state attorneys general, or other government bodies, ensuring Anthropic responds with the right substance on time
- Ensure the Americas team has what it needs from Central Policy and Product Public Policy: positions, talking points, one-pagers, technical briefings, and policy analysis
- Coordinate rapid response when new policy proposals develop, an external organization takes position, or a news cycle shifts, making sure the right people are looped in and the right substance is deployed quickly
- Track campaign milestones, deliverables, and accountability across all workstreams and surface status to leadership
- Serve as the connective tissue between government relations, Communications, Coalitions, and Central Policy, and Product Public Policy
- Help prepare principals (including senior leadership) for high-stakes meetings, hearings, external organization engagements, and events with coordinated briefing packages
You are a good fit if you
- Align with our mission and embrace the imperative of policy impact and change
- Have 8-15+ years of experience across some combination of: public affairs, issue campaigns, trade association management, political campaigns, government relations, coalition building, or management consulting with a public sector focus
- Have a track record of translating strategic objectives into executable plans with clear milestones and measurable outcomes; you think in terms of leading indicators and can articulate progress toward policy wins.
- Are sophisticated operator who knows how to get things done across multiple teams without direct authority. You make people want to execute because your plans are clear and your judgment is trusted
- Have deep political savvy and fluency in how influence is created and applied across government relations, media, grassroots, external organizations, and coalition channels
- Have run or helped run issue campaigns, political campaigns, public affairs campaigns, or complex advocacy programs and you understand the difference between a plan and execution
- Are strong enough on substance to engage credibly with policy teams, but your core skill is orchestration, not analysis
- Have operated in high-stakes, fast-moving environments and you don't need someone to tell you what to do next
- Are drawn to working with an organization that approaches AI policy with intensity and intellectual honesty; you can operationalize and leverage that positioning as a competitive advantage
- 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:
$295,000—$295,000 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