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Communications Lead, The Anthropic Institute

San Francisco, CA

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 Anthropic Institute

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation building some of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence systems. That work yields unique insights but also creates unique responsibilities. The Anthropic Institute (TAI) is a new function within Anthropic that will work to advance the public conversation around AI.

The Anthropic Institute is comprised of research teams tackling some of AI’s most consequential societal challenges: the Frontier Red Team, which stress tests our systems against catastrophic risks; Societal Impacts, which studies how Claude is used by millions of people; and Economic Research, which tracks AI’s impact on people’s jobs and the larger economy.  

The Institute’s mission is to reduce information asymmetries between Anthropic and the outside world, find and name the hard questions implied by powerful AI systems, and publish these findings so that policymakers, researchers, technology leaders, and the public can reckon with what’s here and what’s ahead.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced communications professional to serve as a dedicated communications partner to the Head of Public Benefit. This is a rare opportunity to work alongside an executive leading some of the most consequential research of our time—work on the economic impacts of AI, the implications of self-improving systems, the changing offense and defense balance, and the societal effects of powerful AI on real people and communities.

This role sits at the intersection of executive communications, brand strategy, and portfolio management. You will be the single point of contact and dedicated communications advisor for Jack Clark, managing day-to-day communications requests  and strategic engagements across his full portfolio. Working closely with the Institute's communications, policy, and research teams, you will ensure that the Institute's work is coordinated, consistent, and lands with the audiences it deserves—far beyond the AI and policy communities.

You will also lead the creation and execution of Jack's personal brand platform. Jack is one of the most prominent voices in AI—the founder of Import AI and a co-founder of Anthropic—and this role will involve shaping how he shows up across media, speaking engagements, written platforms, and public conversations as he leads this new chapter.

Key Focus Areas

Executive Communications and Brand Platform for Jack Clark

  • Serve as the single point of contact and dedicated communications advisor to Jack Clark, Anthropic’s Head of Public Benefit and leader of The Anthropic Institute
  • Lead the creation and execution of Jack’s personal brand platform, defining how he shows up across media interviews, podcasts, speaking engagements, written commentary, and social media
  • Assist in preparing Jack for high-profile media engagements and public speaking, developing talking points, briefing materials, and post-engagement analysis
  • Identify and secure strategic media opportunities, panel placements, and speaking engagements that advance both Jack’s platform and the Institute’s mission

Support for Anthropic Institute Communications

  • Work with communications colleagues to develop an overarching communications strategy for The Anthropic Institute, tracking key areas of work across the Economic Index, Societal Impacts Research, and beyond
  • Work with members of the policy and editorial teams to design the Institute's publishing and content strategy, ensuring outputs reach the largest possible audience—whether through the Anthropic blog, the Institute's own site, microsites, interactive experiences, video, audio, or other formats
  • Translate complex research across economics, societal impacts, frontier red teaming, and AI safety into compelling public narratives that reach audiences beyond the AI and policy communities
  • Build and maintain relationships with media, researchers, and thought leaders across economics, labor, national security, and general interest outlets—not just technology press
  • Lead communications for select Institute publications and projects
  • Coordinate with Anthropic’s broader communications, editorial, and policy teams to keep messaging aligned while maintaining the Institute’s distinct voice and mission

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the single point of contact for Jack Clark across all communications needs, managing intake, prioritization, and day-to-day logistics for his portfolio
  • Coordinate across the Institute’s communications team, policy team, and editorial team to ensure Jack’s priorities are represented and his voice is consistent across all external moments
  • Lead the creation and ongoing execution of Jack’s brand platform across all channels
  • Translate technical research on economics, societal impacts, AI safety, and frontier capabilities into narratives accessible to diverse audiences, in partnership with the Institute’s research communications team
  • Prepare Jack and other Institute leaders for media interviews, podcast appearances, congressional hearings, and speaking engagements
  • Build and maintain relationships with media across technology, economics, national security, labor, and general interest verticals
  • Create high-quality content across formats—blog posts, research summaries, briefing documents, talking points, social content, and innovative digital formats
  • Build repeatable playbooks and processes that allow a lean team to punch well above its weight

You May Be a Good Fit If You

  • Have 10+ years of experience in communications, with significant depth in executive communications, thought leadership, or public interest/policy communications
  • Have a track record of translating complex, technical, or academic research into public narratives that reach audiences well beyond specialist communities
  • Can embrace the “weird” - AI is a new field where the unexpected and unusual happens all the time.  
  • Have built and executed brand platforms for senior executives, thought leaders, or public intellectuals—and have managed their day-to-day communications logistics
  • Are equally comfortable crafting high-level messaging strategy and producing content under deadline
  • Have strong media relationships across a range of verticals—technology, economics, national security, policy, and/or general interest
  • Can move between strategic messaging and fast-turnaround tactical execution without losing quality
  • Are intellectually curious about AI’s impact on the economy, society, national security, and the future of work—and can engage substantively with researchers working on these problems
  • Are excited about using AI tools in your own workflows to multiply what a small team can do
  • Care deeply about AI safety, responsible technology development, and Anthropic’s public benefit mission

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:

$255,000 - $320,000 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.

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 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 for using AI in our application process

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