Communications Manager, The Anthropic Institute
About The Position
The Communications Manager will bring The Anthropic Institute’s research to the public, helping policymakers, researchers, journalists, and the broader public understand AI’s current effects and prepare for what may come. The role provides dedicated communications coverage for Economic Research—which studies AI’s effects on jobs, wages, and the broader economy—and Societal Impacts—which examines how Claude is used, including workplace impacts, personal guidance, Claude’s values, and frontier agent use. The manager will also support Special Projects and the Frontier Red Team. The position leads research tracking, publication strategy, launch planning, and reactive press across both portfolios. It works closely with research teams, the Deputy Communications Lead, and Anthropic’s communications, policy, and editorial teams, aligning messaging while maintaining the Institute’s distinct voice. The role includes planning and executing releases such as quarterly Anthropic Economic Index updates, labor market analyses, and the Economic Research Fund, and developing repeatable communications processes for a growing research portfolio. Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. The company describes its mission as creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. The role has a location-based hybrid policy: staff are currently expected to be in an office at least 25% of the time, with some roles potentially requiring more. The stated minimum education is a bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience, in a field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience. Years of experience required correlate with internal job-level requirements.
Requirements
- Deep communications experience, with significant depth in research, science, economics, or policy communications.
- A track record of translating complex, technical, or academic research into public narratives that reach audiences beyond specialist communities.
- Comfort reading and interrogating quantitative research and engaging substantively and credibly with the researchers who produce it.
- Strong, active media relationships.
- Ability to move between long-lead strategic messaging and fast-turnaround tactical execution while maintaining quality.
- Experience leading multi-channel rollouts spanning strategy, digital, press, and cross-functional approvals.
- Intellectual curiosity about AI’s impact on the economy, society, and the future of work, and comfort with uncertainty and unexpected developments.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift and ambiguity is common.
- Interest in Anthropic’s mission to develop AI that is safe and beneficial.
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
- A field of study relevant to the role, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Required years of experience correlate with the internal job-level requirements for the position.
Nice To Haves
- Experience at a research institution, think tank, economics publication, or policy organization communicating quantitative findings.
- Familiarity with the AI policy landscape and debates around AI’s labor market and societal impacts.
- Experience establishing communications processes or playbooks on a small, growing team.
- A background working directly with economists, social scientists, or academic researchers on publication strategy.
- Experience managing sensitive or high-scrutiny press moments, including deciding what to say, when, and how.
- Enthusiasm for using AI tools in personal workflows to multiply what a small team can do.
Responsibilities
- Drive day-to-day communications for the Economic Research and Societal Impacts teams, including research tracking, publication planning, and reactive press.
- Lead communications planning and launch execution for the Anthropic Economic Index, recurring labor market analyses, and new research initiatives such as the Economic Research Fund.
- Develop narratives that translate technical and quantitative research for audiences beyond specialist communities.
- Build and maintain relationships with reporters across economics, labor, technology, research, and general-interest outlets, as well as academic economists and think tank researchers.
- Draft communications plans, briefing documents, talking points, press materials, and social content.
- Manage reactive press on sensitive findings in partnership with the Communications Lead, Deputy Communications Lead, and policy team.
- Partner with policy and editorial teams on publishing strategy across the Anthropic blog, the Institute’s site, microsites, interactive experiences, video, and audio.
- Present researchers for media interviews, podcast appearances, and speaking engagements, and prepare them for those engagements.
- Partner with Institute communications leadership on major announcements and milestone engagements.
- Build repeatable rollout playbooks and processes so a lean team can cover a growing research portfolio.
- Track both teams’ research agendas to shape findings early and plan publications months in advance.
- Support The Anthropic Institute’s other teams, including Special Projects and the Frontier Red Team.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits.
- Optional equity donation matching.
- Generous vacation and parental leave.
- Flexible working hours.
- Office space for collaboration with colleagues.
- Visa sponsorship, with reasonable efforts to obtain a visa for candidates receiving an offer and support from an immigration lawyer.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
