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title: 'Public Policy, Strategic Advisory at Anthropic'
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# Public Policy, Strategic Advisory at Anthropic

- **Company:** Anthropic
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA / Washington, DC
- **Compensation:** $265k–$295k
- **Posted:** 2026-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5473110008

## Job description

## 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’re hiring a strategic advisor to join the Strategic Advisory team within Policy Advocacy, part of Anthropic’s Public Policy team. This is an individual contributor role at the strategic heart of Anthropic’s policy function — designed for an operator with 8–10+ years of experience who wants to drive clarity on Anthropic’s most consequential policy positions, partner with cross-functional peers, and be deployed as a strategic resource across fast-moving policy work.

Policy Advocacy turns Anthropic’s policy priorities into evidence-backed positions, research, campaigns, and partnerships — distinct from government relations and communications, but essential to enabling both. This role is designed to complement our existing Strategic Advisory capacity, which owns the documentation, translation, and deployment of Anthropic’s positions so that external-facing teams can use them. You’ll bring experience and judgment into the room, hold responsibility for a portfolio of strategically important positions, and partner as a peer with leaders across the policy, legal, comms, and product policy functions, working with colleagues on teams across the company on positions and messaging.

The ideal candidate is effective across multiple stakeholders even through substantive disagreement, prioritizes closure over deliberation, and organized and process-focused but able to operate in ambiguity. Successful candidates will have experience building structure where none exists, including under unclear ownership and shifting priorities. We prize doers willing to do the work directly, no matter how small or large. Strategic and systems thinkers that understand how individual positions and engagements fit together across the broader policy landscape are encouraged to apply.

Examples of work in this role might include producing a position package end-to-end: pressure-testing the position with internal SMEs (policy, legal, research), identifying and closing gaps, and producing the full set of deployable materials. Translating new technical research or policy analysis into policy-ready materials on short timelines for use by federal, state, and international affairs teams. Building and running a structured process to resolve a contested position and documenting the outcome. Leading the cross-functional policy strategy for a major launch, including alignment across policy, legal, comms, and research on external narrative, broader policy implications, and rapid-response plans. Standing up a cross-functional working group on an emerging platform or corporate issue, including scoping the problem, driving alignment across teams, producing a written strategy, and standing up the workstream. Distilling Anthropic’s approach to a complex or evolving issue into a deployable narrative, and integrating the output into the canon.

This role offers a rare opportunity to shape Anthropic’s policy voice across the most consequential debates in AI governance, while operating with the pace, pragmatism, and service orientation of a top-tier public affairs function.

## Key responsibilities

- Own a portfolio of Anthropic’s highest-priority policy positions, including position papers, FAQs, talking points, and fact sheets — managing versions, intended audiences, strategic relevance, and internal access.
- Drive organizational consensus on contested technical policy positions — working with subject matter experts across federal affairs, state affairs, international affairs, national security, legal, comms, and research — moderating dissent, calling the question, and closing the loop on documented positions.
- Develop and test message framings with internal and external audiences, iterating quickly and bringing rigor to what lands and why.
- Translate technical research, model capability, and scientific content into policy-ready language for federal, state, and international policymakers, their staff, and legislators.
- Serve federal, state, and international affairs teams as an internal senior advisor — improving their processes, standing up shared material libraries, and building the collateral and strategies they need to be effective in their markets.
- Drive complex, cross-functional policy projects to resolution when no single team is set up to own them end to end — including model launch policy strategy, narrative coordination on contested issues, and working groups on emerging topics.
- Stand up rapid-response playbooks when time-sensitive events require Anthropic to move in days rather than weeks, coordinating across legal, research, and external affairs.
- Partner with policy communications to ensure message and voice consistency across Anthropic’s policy surface area.
- Anticipate emerging issues, proactively work with internal experts to develop Anthropic’s perspective, and make sure we have the materials we need before external pressure emerges.

## Minimum qualifications

- Have direct experience with message development and testing for policy, advocacy, or communications audiences.
- Have experience translating technical material (scientific, engineering, or deeply technical policy) for non-expert decision-makers.
- Are comfortable operating at breadth across multiple policy issue areas simultaneously, and can develop fluency in new ones quickly. Interest in and some experience with technology policy is important; deep AI policy expertise is a plus, not a prerequisite.
- Have experience building or running rapid-response processes, crisis playbooks, or signature programs in fast-moving environments.
- Can serve internal clients — federal, state, and international affairs colleagues — without needing to own external relationships yourself. You find that service posture energizing, not limiting.

## Preferred qualifications

- Have 8–10+ years of professional experience in corporate public affairs, management consulting, government relations, policy or political campaigns, think tanks, or similar fast-paced, cross-functional environments.
- Experience in technology, financial services, energy, pharma, or other heavily regulated industries.
- Demonstrated ability to anticipate emerging issues and develop organizational perspectives proactively.
- Experience designing and running a signature program or flagship campaign end-to-end.
- Experience translating topics to policy-relevant audiences through communications, visual storytelling, marketing, or advocacy.

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—$295,000 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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit [anthropic.com/careers](http://anthropic.com/careers) directly for confirmed position openings.

## 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](https://www.anthropic.com/candidate-ai-guidance) for using AI in our application process.

## About Anthropic

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Anthropic is an AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Public Benefit Corporation) – [anthropic.com](https://www.anthropic.com/company)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA – inferred from job listings on [anthropic.com/jobs](https://www.anthropic.com/jobs?lang=us)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (the company website lists Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei on the Board of Directors but does not explicitly identify them as founders – [anthropic.com/company](https://www.anthropic.com/company))

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI safety and research; frontier AI model development
- **Target customers**: B2B – businesses, nonprofits, civil society groups, and end-users of its AI tools (e.g., Claude)
- **Mission/purpose**: “Making AI systems you can rely on” and “the responsible development and maintenance of advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity” – [anthropic.com](https://www.anthropic.com/) and [anthropic.com/company](https://www.anthropic.com/company)

## Products & Services
- **Claude**: AI assistant “designed to be helpful, honest, and harmless.” Deployed via API and direct interfaces for businesses, nonprofits, and individuals. Type: SaaS/API – [anthropic.com/careers](https://www.anthropic.com/careers) and [anthropic.com](https://www.anthropic.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not disclosed in provided sources; the company operates with a large team and active hiring (56 open roles as of the search date)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available from the provided search results (the company page lists board members including Reed Hastings and Vas Narasimhan, but does not specify investors)
- **Growth Signals**: 56 open roles across research, engineering, product, and operations; emphasis on scaling the team while maintaining a “high-trust, low ego” culture – [anthropic.com/jobs](https://www.anthropic.com/jobs?lang=us)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Safety-first differentiation**: Anthropic treats AI safety as a systematic science, investing heavily in interpretability, steerability, and reliability research.
- **Interdisciplinary team**: Researchers, engineers, policy experts, and operators work closely together; engineers often co-author research papers.
- **Public Benefit Corporation structure**: Legally committed to long-term benefit of humanity, not just shareholder value – [anthropic.com/company](https://www.anthropic.com/company)

## Strategic Focus
- **“Ignite a race to the top on safety”**: Pushing the industry toward safer AI through research, product deployment, and collaboration with governments and civil society.
- **Act for the global good**: Making decisions that maximize positive long-term outcomes for humanity, including bold safety measures – [anthropic.com/careers](https://www.anthropic.com/careers)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “High-trust, low ego” organization that values what you can do over pedigree. About half of technical staff have no prior ML experience; half have PhDs. Engineers do research and researchers do engineering.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Most staff are in the Bay Area and come to the office regularly; some work remotely and visit one week per month. Flexible during relocation.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health/dental/vision, 22 weeks paid parental leave, fertility benefits (Carrot), $500/month wellness stipend, annual education stipend, home office stipend, daily meals in office, retirement matching, equity donation matching, visa sponsorship for eligible roles.
- **Interview process**: Technical roles use live coding (Colab/CodeSignal); non-technical roles are conversational. Accommodations available. No internships currently – [anthropic.com/careers](https://www.anthropic.com/careers)

## Sources
1. [Anthropic Company Page](https://www.anthropic.com/company)
2. [Anthropic Homepage](https://www.anthropic.com/)
3. [Anthropic Careers Page](https://www.anthropic.com/careers)
4. [Anthropic Jobs Board](https://www.anthropic.com/jobs?lang=us)

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