Social Media Lead, Anthropic

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.

About the role

Were seeking an exceptional Social Media Lead to further elevate Anthropics presence across digital this high-impact role youll be responsible for devising publishing and monitoring all social activity related to Anthropics brand making complex AI concepts accessible and engaging for diverse audiences worldwide.

Youll work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research product innovation and cultural communication partnering closely with our communications brand marketing and creative teams to serve key constituents with valuable content and experiences. This role requires someone who can apply exceptional knowledge of the social media landscape and astute observation of cultural trends to identify both opportunities for engagement and points of contention that require clarification.

The ideal candidate brings a unique combination of strategic thinking creative excellence and crisis management expertise. Youll need to be equally comfortable creating viral content moments and managing sensitive communications with the judgment and nuance.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute comprehensive social media strategy across all major platforms (X/Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Instagram and emerging channels)
• Establish and maintain content calendars aligned with research publications product releases and company milestones
• Partner with creative and editorial teams to produce compelling multimedia content that educates and engages
• Translate complex technical and scientific material for general audiences.
• Monitor social sentiment and cultural conversations to identify opportunities and potential issues in real-time
• Lead reactive and crisis communications responses on social channels with sound judgment and strategic thinking
• Build and nurture online communities around Anthropics mission and Claudes capabilities
• Analyze performance metrics and translate insights into actionable strategy improvements
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product research policy and legal to ensure aligned messaging
• Identify and engage with key influencers and thought leaders in the AI space
• Establish Anthropics voice and presence on emerging platforms as the social landscape evolves

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 7 years of social media management experience ideally at a company that has meaningfully broken through in culture and/or is a high-growth technology company
• Possess a proven track record of growing social media presence and engagement at scale
• Excel at translating complex technical concepts into accessible engaging content
• Have exceptional writing skills with the ability to adapt tone and voice for different platforms and audiences
• Have experience managing social media during product launches and crisis situations
• Show excellent judgment in high-pressure situations requiring rapid response
• Demonstrate deep understanding of internet culture memes and online communities
• Bring strong media relationships and understand the interplay between owned and earned channels
• Are experienced with social media management platforms and analytics tools
• Thrive in fast-paced environments and can manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Care about ensuring that transformative AI systems are developed and communicated about responsibly

Strong candidates may have:

• Experience in AI machine learning or emerging technology sectors
• Background in journalism communications or creative fields
• Experience managing social media for developer or technical audiences
• Understanding of AI ethics and responsible technology communications
• Video editing and multimedia production skills
• International social media experience

Logistics

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

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.

How were 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. 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.

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 aboutour policyfor using AI in our application process