Role at a glance
- Salary
- $265K/yr
- Location
- DC, Washington, United States District of Columbia, Washington, United States
- Work arrangement
- Hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Education
- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Visa support
- We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate.
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Role Summary
The Federal Policy partner will lead and operationalize Anthropic’s engagement with Senate Republicans and related stakeholders to advance federal AI policy. The role partners with government affairs, policy, communications, legal, executive, and other internal teams to develop policy positions, execute advocacy campaigns, and shape AI governance.
What You'll Do
- Advise internal stakeholders on public policy positions that advance Anthropic’s mission
- Translate complex policy issues into advocacy strategies and execute campaigns across issue sets
- Build and maintain relationships with Members of the Senate Republican conference
- Identify targets and align policymaker relationships with Anthropic’s policy priorities through substantive engagement
- Coordinate with Federal Affairs partners and internal stakeholders across policy, communications, legal, and executive functions
- Track execution against strategic objectives, measurable milestones, progress, and risk
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Experience working on policy within government or as a policy advocate, with demonstrated success winning legislative and regulatory outcomes in contested policy areas; established relationships with key policymakers and officials in the Senate; legislative and regulatory analysis, policy memos and position papers, advocacy messaging, and briefing materials for senior leadership; experience executing multi-dimensional policy campaigns; ability to translate strategic objectives into executable plans with clear milestones and measurable outcomes; ability to manage across multiple substantive policy domains; based in or willing to relocate to Washington, DC.
Required
- Experience working on policy within government or as a policy advocate, with demonstrated success winning legislative and regulatory...
- Established relationships with key policymakers and officials in the Senate
- Legislative and regulatory analysis, policy memos and position papers, advocacy messaging, and briefing materials for senior leadership
- Experience executing multi-dimensional policy campaigns, including managing outside counsel, coalitions, third-party groups, and...
- Ability to translate strategic objectives into executable plans with clear milestones and measurable outcomes
- Ability to manage across multiple substantive policy domains
- Based in or willing to relocate to Washington, DC
Preferred
- Experience in technology policy, emerging technology regulation, or policy areas affected by rapid innovation and technological change
- Experience thinking in terms of leading indicators and articulating progress toward policy wins to senior leadership
- Experience synthesizing complex policy dynamics into clear strategic counsel for leadership and internal stakeholders
- Experience translating complex technical topics into politically viable policy positions and messaging
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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 Policy partner to lead and operationalize Anthropic's engagement with Senate Republicans and related stakeholders to drive AI policy that advances Anthropic's mission of ensuring that artificial intelligence systems are developed safely and benefit humanity.
In this role, you will work closely with the government affairs team and the broader organization to translate strategic objectives into executable federal policy campaigns that shape the policy infrastructure. You will advise internal stakeholders, shape policy positions, develop advocacy strategies, and build and manage policymaker relationships to advance our policy goals.
Anthropic is equal parts research lab, policy think-tank, and technology startup. We care deeply about the safe development of AI systems, and build partnerships with governments through proactive, opinionated, substantive policy conversations. Our approach to AI policy is genuinely distinctive — grounded in honest assessment of technological trajectories and authentic concern for safe scaling — and we need federal affairs professionals who understand how to operationalize that positioning creatively and strategically.
This role offers a rare opportunity to shape AI governance at a critical moment. Federal AI policy is being written right now, and this is the most consequential technology policy debate in a generation. The decisions made in the next 2-3 years will shape how AI develops globally. You will work alongside leadership who are deeply engaged on policy and serve as partners in this work.
Key responsibilities
- 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 Senate Republican conference
- 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
Minimum qualifications
- Experience working on policy within government or as a policy advocate, with demonstrated success winning legislative and regulatory outcomes in contested policy areas
- Established relationships with key policymakers and officials in the Senate, and a demonstrated track record of building substantive relationships with senior policymakers
- Policy drafting and analysis skills: legislative and regulatory analysis, policy memos and position papers, advocacy messaging, and briefing materials for senior leadership
- Experience executing multi-dimensional policy campaigns, including managing outside counsel, coalitions, third-party groups, and communications resources
- Ability to translate strategic objectives into executable plans with clear milestones and measurable outcomes
- Ability to manage across multiple substantive policy domains without deep expertise in each area, including validating others' work and asking incisive questions to inform strategy
- Based in or willing to relocate to Washington, DC
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in technology policy, emerging technology regulation, or policy areas affected by rapid innovation and technological change, with an understanding of how to navigate the policy gaps that disruptive change creates
- Experience thinking in terms of leading indicators and articulating progress toward policy wins to senior leadership
- Experience synthesizing complex policy dynamics into clear strategic counsel for leadership and internal stakeholders, and managing internal stakeholders to build trust, confidence, and partnership
- Experience translating complex technical topics into politically viable policy positions and messaging in environments with significant institutional resistance or uncertainty
- Alignment with our mission and enthusiasm for the imperative of policy impact and change
- Drawn to working with an organization that approaches AI policy with intensity and intellectual honesty, and able to operationalize and leverage that positioning as a competitive advantage
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
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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 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.
About the company
Anthropic
Startup
Anthropic is an artificial intelligence safety and research company founded in 2020, dedicated to advancing AI technology while prioritizing ethical considerations and safety measures. The organization focuses on developing AI systems that are interpretable, reliable, and aligned with human values. With a team of experts in machine learning, philosophy, and policy, Anthropic aims to address the challenges posed by increasingly sophisticated AI, fostering a responsible approach to technology that can benefit society as a whole.
Anthropic is an artificial intelligence safety and research company founded in 2020, dedicated to advancing AI technology while prioritizing ethical considerations and safety measures. The organization focuses on developing AI systems that are interpretable, reliable, and aligned with human values. With a team of experts in machine learning, philosophy, and policy, Anthropic aims to address the challenges posed by increasingly sophisticated AI, fostering a responsible approach to technology that can benefit society as a whole.