External Affairs, US Federal

Overview

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 Federal Affairs professional to drive public policy outcomes that advance Anthropic's mission helping the world safely make the transition to powerful AI. This role will build advocacy campaigns and relationships with Members of the Congress, specifically focused on the Democratic party in the House of Representatives.

• Advise internal stakeholders to help inform and develop public policy positions that advance Anthropic's mission
• Translate complex policy issues into effective advocacy strategies, executing campaigns across issue sets while managing diverse stakeholder groups and leveraging communications, third-party groups, political engagement, and internal and external resources
• Build and maintain key relationships with Members of the Democratic party in the House of Representatives.
• Identify targets, cement relationships, and align them to Anthropic's policy priorities through proactive, substantive engagement—leading with substance, not just relationships
• Work in tandem with Federal Affairs partners to share information, align on strategy, and execute; support the integration of the federal affairs team with key internal stakeholders across policy, communications, legal, and executive functions
• Maintain accountability in driving outcomes, working with leadership to align on key results and track execution against strategic objectives with measurable milestones
• Synthesize complex political dynamics into clear strategic recommendations for leadership, managing up effectively and building confidence through transparency on progress and risk

• Align with our mission and embrace the imperative of policy impact and change
• Have 10+ years of experience working on policy within government or as a policy advocate, thriving in dynamic environments with demonstrated success winning on legislative and regulatory outcomes in contested policy areas
• Have strong, established relationships as well as proven track record in building relationships with key policymakers and officials within the House Democratic conference. Experience in the following areas preferred:
  Energy and Commerce;
  Financial Services, Ways and Means; or Education and Workforce
• 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 to senior leadership
• Can manage across multiple substantive policy domains without deep expertise in each area; you have intellectual curiosity and enough substantive ability to validate work, ask incisive questions, inform strategy, and execute.
• Have experience in technology policy, emerging technology regulation, or policy areas affected by rapid innovation and technological change; you understand how to navigate the policy gaps that disruptive change creates
• Synthesize complex policy dynamics into clear strategic counsel for leadership and internal stakeholders, as well as manage internal stakeholders effectively, building trust, confidence, and partnership
• Thrive in translating complex technical topics into politically viable policy positions and messaging, often in environments where there is significant institutional resistance or uncertainty
• 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

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—$265,000…