Policy Advocacy Political Research

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.

We are seeking an experienced public opinion researcher to build and expand Anthropics in-house polling and research function. This role will be fundamental to understanding how key audiences from policymakers and third-party groups to the general public perceive and respond to Anthropics policy positions messages and campaigns. This is a foundational role: youll establish the research function from the ground up with high autonomy and limited precedent.

The Central Policy team sits at the operational heart of Anthropics policy function distinct from government relations and communications but essential to enabling both. Youll work cross-functionally to ensure our policy and communications strategy is grounded in a rigorous understanding of stakeholder sentiment. The polling insights you generate will directly feed into high-visibility campaigns and will be a key asset in our policy efforts in Washington and beyond.

Anthropic is equal parts research lab policy think-tank and technology startup. We care deeply about the safe development of AI systems and build partnerships with governments through proactive opinionated substantive policy conversations. This role offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of AI policy bringing rigorous research discipline to policy strategy.

Success in this role means establishing trusted relationships with leading polling firms around the world delivering high-quality research on a regular cadence and becoming the internal expert on how key audiences perceive AI Anthropic and Anthropics positions and messages. Youll translate polling insights into strategic recommendations that measurably improve campaign effectiveness and build scalable processes that allow the function to grow efficiently as demand increases.

• Develop a comprehensive strategy for our in-house political research function that aligns with Anthropics policy goals

• Identify evaluate and establish relationships with leading research and polling firms ensuring coverage across demographics geographies and political perspectives

• Conduct detailed proactive research to test core messages policy proposals and campaign themes and to evaluate Anthropics brand perception and performance

• Execute rapid-response polling to quickly assess Anthropics messaging strategy in response to external events policymaker actions competitive developments or emerging opportunities

• Work with external affairs colleagues (federal state and international) and policy communications to identify research priorities interpret findings and translate insights into actionable strategic recommendations

• Develop and maintain a knowledge management system for polling data insights and recommendations that ensures findings are accessible and actionable

• Manage polling vendors at scale including vendor performance management

• Participate in strategy sessions and provide thought partnership on the design of messages policy proposals and campaigns ahead of polling and testing

• Create clear compelling deliverables that distill polling findings into insights and recommendations

• Identify opportunities to build and scale the polling function over time including staffing needs process improvements and capability expansion

• Track and report on the impact and utility of research measuring how insights translate into more effective campaigns and strategic decisions

• Experience designing and executing public opinion research including survey and questionnaire design sampling approaches and message testing

• Ability to analyze quantitative and qualitative polling data and translate findings into clear decision-ready written recommendations

• Experience selecting briefing and managing external polling or research vendors

• Strong writing and presentation skills including distilling complex research for senior non-technical audiences

• 8 years of professional experience in political or public opinion research ideally spanning multiple campaign cycles and policy environments

• Corporate public affairs experience ideally in a highly scrutinized or regulated industry

• Strategic thinking that spots emergent issues identifies and tests the right messages and translates those insights into tactical recommendations

• A track record of building relationships with vendors external experts and complex stakeholder ecosystems

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously maintain clear priorities and deliver on tight timelines

• Comfort operating in ambiguous environments taking ownership of problems and proactively driving initiatives with limited precedent

• A resourceful collaborative working style and genuine commitment to being a strong teammate

• Passion for AI policy and alignment with Anthropics safety mission and commitment to responsible AI development

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.