Executive Communications Writer

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.

Anthropic is seeking an experienced Executive Communications Writer to support and scale the ways our leaders tell our this role you will work closely with the Head of Executive Communications and other organization leaders to reach priority audiences in ways that compellingly communicate Anthropics position at the AI research frontier market-leading commercial posture and industry-leading commitment to public benefit.

In this role a given day might include drafting editing brainstorming on-site event support and coordinating executive response to breaking news all in close collaboration with the External Communications team and other leaders. The ideal candidate will be an adept storyteller an experienced partner to leaders and a flexible collaborator able to navigate ambiguous situations with sound judgment. When circumstances dictate you should also be capable of shaping highly technical materials that reach sophisticated audiences with deep domain experience. Because a company like Anthropic and a technology like advanced AI are unprecedented in nature were looking for proactive visionary candidates who offer fresh perspectives on what executive communications might look like in the AI era.

We are particularly interested in candidates with experience and expert capability in at least one domain relevant to Anthropics roster of executives. These include: science and research; products and AI architecture; enterprise and commercial strategy; and visual storytelling and brand among others.

• Originate and shape exceptional executive communications that span a wide array of written and rhetorical formats and platforms
• Work cross-functionally with External Communications colleagues and other subject matter experts to drive consequential communications moments that serve strategic goals
• Support senior leaders in developing their areas of communications focus and in their preparation for major communications moments
• Balance a collaborative ethic with a strategic point of view

• Have 8 years of high level executive communications experience ideally at a high-tempo industry-shaping organization
• Are an exceptional writer and communicator both on the page and in high-stakes fast-moving environments
• Are high agency and low ego
• Demonstrate comfort and experience in supporting senior leaders
• Have a point of view on how forces of change are reshaping traditional communications disciplines including executive communications
• Display strong operational capabilities
• Are self-driven with a bias to action
• Show excellent judgment and instincts in navigating ambiguous situations
• Maintain epistemic humility while making informed decisions
• Bring an open and curious mindset to deeply understand technical concepts

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.

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 youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were 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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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. Were 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.

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 aboutour policy for using AI in our application process.