Anthropic’s 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
Anthropic seeks a Technical and Developer Communications Lead to shape our strategy across developer relations, AI infrastructure, research, and technical initiatives. You'll translate our complex innovations into compelling narratives for technical audiences while advancing our position as a leader in responsible AI development.
Success in this role requires exceptional writing and judgment, with proven ability to make complex AI concepts accessible to diverse technical audiences. You should bring extensive experience in crisis management, proactive issue identification, and rapid response coordination. Deep familiarity with developer forums and social media platforms, combined with expertise in risk assessment and reputation management, is essential.
Reporting to the Head of Product Communications, you'll work closely with our product and engineering teams to communicate breakthrough developments in AI systems. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape technical discourse around cutting-edge AI technology.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute a comprehensive communications strategy targeting developer communities, engineers and ML/AI practitioners, AI infrastructure specialists, researchers, and security professionals
- Work closely with the developer relations team, creating compelling narratives around Anthropic's API, tools, and technical capabilities
- Influence communications strategy for AI hardware, translating complex technical achievements into accessible stories
- Manage public-facing issues and sensitive situations to mitigate potential risks
- Coordinate rapid response issue management and crisis management. Identify potential issues before they become crises and develop early warning systems
- Develop a proactive product security communications narrative, including trust and data, vulnerability disclosures, security features, and best practices
- Build and maintain relationships across community forums like Reddit and Hacker News, technical journalists, developer-focused media, and influential voices in the AI/ML community
- Create technical content including blog posts, speaking proposals, messaging, etc.
- Tailor the technical spokesperson bench for media engagements, speaking opportunities, and developer events
- Collaborate with Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Research teams to identify and develop compelling technical stories
You may be a good fit if you have:
- 10+ years of experience in technical communications, with significant focus on developer relations, infrastructure technology, or security communications
- Demonstrated track record of building authentic developer relationships across multiple channels (social media, newsletters, technical forums) with proven ability to make quick-turnaround decisions on sensitive communications while maintaining high editorial standards
- Deep understanding of AI/ML technologies, development frameworks, and the broader technical ecosystem
- Very strong relationships with technical influencers and media outlets, with proven experience placing stories in developer-focused publications
- Deep understanding of how and where technical communities consume information across digital and real-world channels and communities
- Proven track record of translating complex technical concepts into compelling narratives for diverse technical audiences
- Experience managing security-sensitive communications and coordinating with technical stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with engineers, researchers, and technical leaders
- Strong technical writing skills with experience creating developer-focused content
- Track record of building successful technical communications programs in fast-paced environments
- Experience developing and executing developer relations strategies
- Understanding of AI infrastructure, including hardware/chips and computing platforms
- Excellent project management skills and ability to manage multiple technical initiatives
- Background in computer science, engineering, or related technical field preferred
- Passion for Anthropic's mission and commitment to responsible AI development
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
The expected salary range for this position is:
Annual Salary:
$285,000—$325,000 USD
Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's 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 aren't 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 you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're 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 we're 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. We're 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.
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What We Do
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
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