Research Operations, Economic Research

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 strong operator to serve as the operational backbone of Anthropic's Economic Research team. Your overarching mandate is twofold: 1) “clear the brush” so our researchers can efficiently execute on key research priorities, and 2) ensure research aspirations and findings translate into concrete policy and commercial outcomes. In practice this means you will be the person who keeps the team's operating rhythm tight, synthesizes information so leadership can make good decisions quickly, and represents the team in cross-functional settings when researchers are heads-down.

Delivering on these mandates will require strong operational rigor, a broad understanding of Policy, Research, and Communications ecosystems, and a knack for forming effective partnerships both within and outside of Anthropic.

In this role, you will:

• Drive execution on the team’s research initiatives, e.g., economic index releases, economic briefs and working papers, agents research, Clio observability analyses, Anthropic interviewer deployments. This will involve a lot of information gathering and reporting while researchers are “out in the wilderness”

• Work backward from business deadlines to set research deadlines/milestones and plan out team capacity 

• Ensure smooth operating cadence and relationship touchpoints with our research ecosystem (e.g., academic collaborators, commissioned research vendors, research grantees, advisory councils)

• Partner with colleagues on Research, Public Policy, Communications, and GTM to organize briefings and campaigns that amplify key research findings

• Support the team lead in setting quarterly research priorities and resource allocation; draft monthly updates to the Policy org and broader company

• Help the team effectively grow and onboard by supporting with recruitment, onboarding, and team integration, as needed (e.g., filtering resumes, revamping onboarding materials, planning team offsites)

• Create and manage Economic Research engagement calendars to ensure strategic alignment with our policy objectives and optimal use of leadership time. Support researcher engagements at high-touch events and summits

• Maintain key information repositories that compile and organize our research results

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have a 5+ year track record managing and delivering on business-critical, cross-functional initiatives

• Have ability to quickly gain state on technical domains and “know enough” to be effective, without being a subject matter expert

• Are skilled at navigating organizational complexity, building relationships, and influencing without authority 

• Can “see around corners” and anticipate needs when supporting leaders in executing their vision, and ensuring they have the necessary resources and information to succeed

• Are highly organized with the ability to prioritize multiple tasks while maintaining a high attention to detail

• Are passionate about the intersection of frontier AI development, economic research, and policy frameworks

Sample projects:

• Build a living tracker for critical research workstreams (e.g., economic index releases, economic briefs, Anthropic Interviewer) and use it as the source of truth for last steps / next steps on p0 team projects

• Manage contracting and vendor relationships for commissioned research projects, including scoping proposals, coordinating with Legal and Procurement, and tracking deliverables through the research pipeline

• Coordinate cross-functional alignment for a major academic research partnership (e.g., an RCT studying AI adoption in firms), ensuring the right stakeholders across GTM, Product, Policy, and Comms are involved and aligned on scope, data access, and publication strategy

• Work backward from a policy campaign or research publication deadline to organize research milestones and deliverables (i.e., coordinating an Economic Index release with our Comms team)

• Support operations for research grantmaking programs, including managing application review processes, coordinating with grant recipients on contracting, and tracking disbursement and reporting timelines

• Work across the Policy org, Communications, and with executive teams to organize and plan Research presence at key external events and convenings — for example, agenda, objectives, scheduling, and logistics for an Economic Index campaign or research showcase

• Build Economic Research onboarding documentation and curriculum to support team growth; better surface key artifacts and content (as is allowable) to the broader company, for those who are interested in keeping up-to-date with Research progress

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