Strategy & Operations, Public Policy & Public Benefit

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 a strategic operator to support the leadership of Anthropic's Public Policy and The Anthropic Institute. Our Public Policy team works with governments around the world to help shape AI governance, advancing priorities like model safety, transparency, and democratic leadership in AI. The Anthropic Institute studies the societal, economic, and governance implications of advanced AI, and reports candidly on what we're learning.

Your overarching mandate is twofold: 1) ensure the day-to-day of both orgs runs smoothly - leadership is focused on the right things, teams are coordinated, and nothing falls through the cracks, and 2) drive projects that help the orgs scale, from budget forecasting and headcount planning to executive engagement prep. This is a high-trust, high-context role that sits at the center of two fast-moving teams. It requires strong operational rigor, the ability to move between altitudes (from a board memo to a seating chart), and a real understanding of how AI policy, safety research, and public benefit work intersect.

In this role, you will:

• Own day-to-day leadership prioritization for Public Policy and The Anthropic Institute - triage inbound, prep decisions, ensure time is spent on highest-leverage work.

• Run the operating rhythm of both orgs: team meetings, leadership syncs, offsites.

• Staff executive engagements end-to-end - briefing memos, talking points, pre-reads, logistics, and post-meeting action tracking for senior internal and external meetings.

• Drive special projects to scale the orgs: e.g., budget and headcount planning.

• Partner with the Chief of Staff (strategic alignment, escalations, cross-org priorities) and the Administrative Business Partner (calendar, travel, logistics) in a tight unit.

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 7+ years of experience in chief of staff, business operations, strategy, or program management roles - ideally with direct exposure to executive leadership

• Have previously worked in policy, government, or another frontier tech environment

• Have hands-on experience using Claude/AI tools to improve org effectiveness

• Are skilled at navigating organizational complexity and influencing without authority

• Can "see around corners" - you anticipate what leaders will need before they ask, and you make sure the right information and people are in the room

• Move comfortably between strategic and tactical work - you can write the board memo and also make sure the offsite venue has working AV

• Have clear and concise written and verbal communication

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:

$230,000 - $265,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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