Platform and Technical Communications Lead

About Anthropic

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.

Note: This role requires a background in communications/public relations with deep technical fluency.

About the Role

Anthropic seeks a Platform and Technical Communications Lead who brings both communications expertise and deep technical fluency. This role requires more than standard tech industry communications experience we need someone with proven understanding of technical topics that include machine learning (ML) AI systems platform architecture developer tooling compute and infrastructure open source and API ecosystems.

Youll drive strategic communications that resonate with highly technical communities from ML practitioners and infrastructure engineers to developer evangelists and open source contributors. Success requires the ability to deeply understand and credibly communicate about complex technical concepts architecture decisions and engineering challenges.

Reporting to the Head of Product Communications youll work closely with engineering product and research teams to shape technical discourse and engagement with technical communities. This includes building relationships with key media and within developer forums technical conferences open source communities and infrastructurefocused events where practitioners discuss the nuts and bolts of AI systems and platform technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Build and execute comprehensive communications strategies for technical audiences including developers ML/AI practitioners infrastructure specialists and researchers
• Drive media relations and thought leadership around our platform APIs developer tools and technical capabilities
• Manage proactive and reactive communications around technical launches security matters and platform updates
• Build relationships with media technical influencers developer communities and specialized media
• Lead crisis and issues management for technical matters including rapid response coordination
• Create technical content spanning blog posts documentation speaking materials and messaging frameworks

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 10 years in technical communications/PR with proven experience in:
• Platform/developer communications
• ML/AI technologies and ecosystem
• Infrastructure and DevOps communications
• Open source community engagement
• API and SDK launches
• Security communications
• Strong technical foundation with ability to understand and communicate complex concepts in ML AI and platform technologies
• Demonstrated track record building authentic relationships with technical communities and influencers
• Experience managing sensitive technical communications and coordinating with engineering and product stakeholders
• Proven ability to translate technical concepts into compelling narratives for diverse technical audiences
• Background working with engineering and product teams on technical launches and ongoing communications
• Experience developing and executing developer relations strategies

Strong candidates may have:

• Communications or PR background with progressive experience in technical domains
• Experience leading communications for platform companies or developerfocused products
• Technical degree or equivalent practical experience
• Deep understanding of ML/AI ecosystem and emerging trends
• Proven track record of building technical communications programs in fastpaced environments

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

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Locationbased 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.

How were different

We believe that the highestimpact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few largescale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our longterm 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 highestimpact 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: GPT3 CircuitBased 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.