Communications Manager, Research

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 a strategic communications professional to join our team and drive external storytelling for Anthropics research and model training work. This role will be the primary external comms partner to our model research and training teams that cover areas like Interpretability and Alignment some of the most distinctive and technically deep research work happening in AI.

In this role youll craft compelling narratives that make frontier AI research and safety work more accessible and meaningful to journalists policymakers the broader research and safety community and the public.

The ideal candidate is a creative storyteller with strong proactive and reactive muscle has a genuine curiosity about science and research and the judgment to navigate nuanced novel topics with care. You should be able to move fast think critically and collaborate across a wide range of technical and non-technical teams.

This is a unique opportunity to shape how one of the worlds leading AI labs communicates about the fundamental science of AI safety at a crucial moment for the field.

What youll do

• Develop and execute communications strategies across our research portfolio including interpretability alignment model welfare and model training turning dense technical work into stories that resonate with distinct audiences.
• Lead launch moments for major research publications papers and milestones owning the narrative media strategy and cross-functional rollout.
• Create thought leadership opportunities for research executives to build their profiles as leading voices in AI safety through speaking engagements bylines conferences and media.
• Build and maintain relationships with key science and technology journalists research-focused outlets and influencers in the AI and ML space.
• Serve as a trusted comms partner to research leads and senior stakeholders

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 8 years of experience working in communications ideally with significant time spent on science research or deep-tech storytelling.
• Have a strong record of building proactive communications campaigns around technical or scientific work that resonated with a diverse range of audiences.
• Excel at translating complex technical concepts into compelling messaging.
• Are excellent at media relations including with reporters who cover tech science and research rather than just business or product news.
• Have experience working directly with researchers scientists or engineers on a variety of topics
• Are comfortable operating in areas of genuine uncertainty where the science is evolving the stakes are high and there may not be a right answer yet.
• Want to be part of a fast-paced small experienced and impactful team.
• Are results-oriented with a bias toward flexibility and impact.

Strong candidates may have

• Experience in science communications academic research communications or deep-tech comms
• Experience building executive brand and thought leadership programs positioning technical leaders as credible visible voices in their field through speaking media and owned content strategies.
• Background working directly with research teams academic labs or R&D functions at a technology company
• A track record of launching research papers scientific findings or technical reports to press and public
• Experience communicating about emerging or philosophically novel topics where public understanding is limited and the risk of misinterpretation is high
• Familiarity with the AI safety and alignment landscape

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.

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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