Head of Production, Creative Studio

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.

The Creative Studio is Anthropics in-house creative team responsible for the brand expression across Anthropic and Claude. We care about craft making things by hand and using AI when it makes sense. The team is growing and were looking for people who do excellent work to join us. The stakes are real and theres room to shape what all this becomes.

About the role

The Head of Production sits at the intersection of creative excellence and operational rigor. Youll lead a team of producers design the production structures and workflows well rely on as we grow and build and manage an agency ecosystem that gives us access to world-class creative talent at every scale. Day to day youll be the person ensuring that ambitious creative projects move from concept to completion with the quality and efficiency Anthropics brands deserves while also thinking strategically about what our production capabilities need to look like a year or more from now. As Head of Production you will be a foundational leader in that effort responsible for building scaling and running the production organization that brings our creative vision to life across every discipline and format.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of producers across multiple creative disciplines setting clear expectations supporting professional growth and building a collaborative high-performing production culture

• Design and evolve the production teams structure hiring roadmap and operating model to meet Anthropics growing creative needs helping shape what our production organization looks like at scale

• Own production budgets including forecasting allocation and financial reporting across projects and the broader team ensuring resources are used effectively and strategically

• Manage contractor and freelance staffing across disciplines building a flexible resourcing model that can scale up and down in response to creative output demands

• Evaluate onboard and curate an agency ecosystem selecting partners that are aligned with Anthropics brand standards and can deliver consistently high-quality work and managing those relationships over time

• Establish and refine production best practices workflows and quality standards across the studio ensuring consistency and efficiency as the team and output grow

• Partner closely with creative leadership to translate creative briefs and ambitious project scopes into realistic production plans balancing creative ambition with timeline and budget realities

• Collaborate cross-functionally with brand marketing communications and product teams to understand project needs align on priorities and keep production moving smoothly across the organization

• Track production performance identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies and continuously improve the way we work from intake and scheduling through to delivery

• Identify tooling needs across the organization evaluating implementing and driving adoption of systems such as digital asset management (DAM) project delivery platforms and resourcing/utilization tracking tools

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 10 years of experience in creative production with a track record of leading production teams or functions ideally within a brand marketing or creative studio environment

• Have deep experience managing production budgets contractor staffing and agency relationships at scale

• Understand a wide range of creative disciplines and production formats from video and photography to digital experiential and print and can manage production across them

• Are a strong operator who can build systems processes and workflows that scale and who enjoys the challenge of bringing order and clarity to complex fast-moving creative work

• Can balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution moving fluidly between planning for the future and keeping current projects on track

• Are an excellent communicator who can work effectively with creative teams business stakeholders and external partners alike

• Thrive in fast-paced high-ambiguity environments and are comfortable shaping a function that is still being built

• Care about the quality and consistency of creative output and understand how production excellence contributes to a strong brand

Strong candidates may also have

• Experience building or scaling a production function from early stages including hiring and structuring a team

• A background in creative agency environments in-house brand studios or high-growth technology companies

• Familiarity with emerging production tools and workflows including AI-assisted production and comfort evaluating new technologies for the team

• Experience working on brand or marketing creative for companies in the technology or AI space

• A track record of building and managing strong agency or vendor relationships with a clear sense of how to evaluate and retain creative partners

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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you some cases we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money fees or banking information before your first day. If youre ever unsure about a communication dont click any linksvisit for confirmed position openings.

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