Public Policy, Strategic Advisory

About the role

We're hiring a strategic advisor on our Central Policy team. This is an individual contributor role at the strategic heart of Anthropic's policy function — designed for an operator 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.

The Central Policy team sits at the operational heart of Anthropic's policy function — 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.

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.

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.
• Hold at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field.

Preferred qualifications

• Have 8+ 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.

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.