Political Programs Lead at Anthropic

On-site - Washington, DC, USA

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Anthropic is hiring a Political Programs Lead to build and run the programs through which Anthropic, its political action committees, and its employees take part in the political process, including engagement with candidates and causes at all levels of government. The role reports to the head of Political Programs, Campaigns & Coalitions, shaping strategy, turning it into programs, and running them day‑to‑day. It involves designing programs, doing much of the early work yourself, and hiring as they grow.

Salary

R$ 295,000 - 345,000

Requirements

Skills

  • Experience in campaigns, party committees, political organizations, or corporate or association political programs, including at least one role where you ran a program or budget and answered for its results
  • Working knowledge of the ways a company and its employees can lawfully take part in politics (PACs, individual giving, 501(c)(4) and trade association engagement, grassroots and grasstops, candidate education) and the campaign finance, lobbying, and gifts and ethics rules that govern each
  • Experience advising senior executives on political matters
  • 12+ years in campaigns, party committees, political organizations, or corporate or association political programs
  • Senior-level experience in national politics: on a presidential campaign, at a major party committee, or at a national political organization with programs across the country, with knowledge of how candidate fields form, how campaign policy operations work, and how early-state and platform processes shape what candidates commit to
  • A record of working credibly with both parties
  • Experience building or running grassroots or grasstops organizing programs
  • Federal and state experience, including familiarity with governors, attorneys general, and state legislators as well as federal candidates
  • Experience building a program, team, or approach that did not exist before, and still enjoying doing the work yourself
  • Sound judgment and discretion in reputationally sensitive work, treating legal and ethical limits as part of program design
  • Credibility at the leadership table
  • Belief in Anthropic's mission, and interest in helping candidates and officials in both parties understand the stakes of AI governance

Responsibilities

  • Build and run Anthropic's presidential engagement program for the 2028 cycle: map prospective fields in both parties, offer AI policy education to candidates and their advisors on equal terms, prepare Anthropic's executives for those conversations, and plan ahead for the platform, convention, and transition periods
  • Build a candidate outreach and education program for federal, state, and local races: introduce Anthropic to candidates in both parties, and brief them and their advisors on AI and AI policy on equal terms
  • Build Anthropic's field programs: grassroots and grasstops organizing on AI policy in priority states and districts
  • Run the day-to-day of Anthropic's political giving as one portfolio: the employee-funded PAC at the federal level and in certain states, voluntary employee participation programs, and corporate contributions where the law permits
  • Develop, in partnership with the government relations teams, recommendations for the PAC board and company leadership on which candidates and committees to support, applying our written criteria on AI safety and democratic governance
  • Build Anthropic's political intelligence: a current read of races, committees, states, and the presidential fields that informs leadership decisions and helps our government relations teams plan
  • Design the education and events that help employees who choose to participate in politics do so in an informed way
  • Build senior relationships in both parties, and represent Anthropic credibly in that community
  • Support the head of the function in advising Anthropic's leadership on political risk and opportunity
  • Design and run every program and communication with Legal and outside counsel so that it operates within campaign finance, lobbying, and gifts and ethics rules, and maintain the separations those rules require
  • Work closely with the Federal, State and Local, Policy, and Communications teams so political programs fit Anthropic's policy positions and public voice
  • Report on what the programs do, internally and as part of Anthropic's public disclosure
  • Hire and manage a small team as the programs grow

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