Digital Campaigns, Policy Advocacy

Anthropics 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.

Were hiring a strategist to join the Policy Campaigns team within Anthropics Public Policy team. The Policy Campaigns team turns the companys policy priorities into active campaigns: research and polling messaging coalitions paid media and external execution. Were hiring a strategist to develop and execute paid media campaign strategy manage agencies and measure the success of our advocacy campaigns in the US and in priority markets abroad.

This is a strategy and program management role. Youll decide what a campaign needs to accomplish who needs to hear from us which messages and tactics will move them and then implement accordingly. Anthropic works on many policy issues at once across many markets and youll need to understand the full set of issues and find the right cross-cutting approaches to advance our goals. Youll direct the agencies that produce and place the work and bring Policy Communications Marketing Public Affairs and Legal to agreement on tight legislative timelines.

The role also carries a substantial project management load. Youll run several campaigns at once across time zones and agencies and keep each one on schedule and on budget. Youll report to the Head of Policy Campaigns.

• Design paid and digital campaign strategies for legislative and policy goals including objectives audiences messaging tactics phasing and budget
• Develop campaign messaging and tactics with the Campaigns team executives Public Affairs and Communications and make sure paid media carries the core message
• Spot where a campaign could conflict with Anthropics other policy commercial or international priorities and resolve those tensions before launch
• Direct creative and media-buying agencies: set strategy and briefs scopes and budgets hold timelines and hold the work to a high standard
• Run several campaigns at once across time zones and agencies: own the timelines workplans budgets and status reporting and keep partners in the US and abroad aligned
• Build rapid response capabilities with Policy Marketing Legal and Communications so campaigns can respond quickly in changing environments
• Set success measures before launch report results plainly and adjust strategy based on what works
• Work cross-functionally to find the stories and moments that make policy arguments concrete for policymakers and opinion formers

• Experience running digital content and paid media for a corporate affairs team political campaign advocacy organization public affairs firm or issue campaign including owning a media budget
• Experience managing creative and media-buying agencies including briefs scopes budgets and performance reviews
• Experience running campaigns aimed at policymakers key opinion formers or other influential audiences
• Experience managing several campaigns or projects at once with multiple agencies and stakeholders in different time zones
• Experience building campaign reporting in spreadsheets or dashboards

• Experience managing state or federal legislative campaigns
• Experience running campaigns inside a large organization or coalition with competing priorities
• Working knowledge of AI safety and technology policy issues
• Experience running campaigns in markets outside the US
• Hands-on familiarity with ad platforms and targeting such as Meta LinkedIn and programmatic buying

Minimum education: Bachelors 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 arent 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.

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