Head of Recruiting, Communications, Brand, & Marketing

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.

Anthropics Communications Brand and Marketing teams shape how people inside the company and around the world understand AI its risks and its benefits. They move fast often through moments that make headlines. Were looking for a recruiting leader to run the team that hires for them.

In this role you will lead a team of experienced recruiters and be the main recruiting partner to the leaders of these functions and their operations partners. The team is seasoned and each recruiter brings deep context on the business. From day one you have two first priorities: the team you manage and the leaders you support. You might spend one hour coaching a recruiter through a hard search and the next working with a senior leader on how their organization needs to grow.

• Lead coach and retain a team of senior recruiters with a focus on fast and timely feedback
• Build deep trust with the leaders of Communications Brand and Marketing. Learn what they need raise hiring risks early and push back when the plan and the market dont match.
• Run a tight operation. Own headcount plans pipeline data and reporting and keep them accurate enough that leaders and operations partners can plan from them.
• Use data to show where each search stands where it is stuck and what it will take to close.
• Work with the operations partners for these teams on headcount planning and priorities and treat them as true partners.
• Set one consistent process across the team: how a search runs how interviews are structured how data stays clean and how recruiters use our systems and Claude workflows.
• Hire recruiters onto your own team including specialists in communications and brand hiring.
• Partner with Compensation Finance People Partners and Recruiting Operations so that candidates and hiring teams get a clear fair process.

• You have managed recruiters including senior recruiters and maintained a strong team culture
• You have been the trusted recruiting partner to senior executives and you can explain how you earned that trust.
• You run recruiting operations with rigor. You know your numbers and your headcount and pipeline data hold up when someone checks them.
• You stay steady at a high pace for long stretches and you keep your team steady too.
• You give and take direct feedback and you handle hard conversations with care.
• You keep sensitive information confidential and use good judgment on sensitive searches.

• 10 years of recruiting experience including 5 years managing recruiters or recruiting managers.
• Experience leading an executive search function or owning a recruiting portfolio for Communications Brand Corporate Affairs or Marketing.
• Experience supporting leaders whose work is public and high-stakes.
• Experience scaling a recruiting team at a fast-growing company.
• Fluency with recruiting systems and AI tools and a record of teaching recruiters to use them well.

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.