Policy Programs & Partnerships, Global Impact
Anthropic
About Anthropic
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's mission is to ensure the world safely makes the transition through transformative AI. That only works if the benefits of frontier AI reach the majority of the world's population — not as an afterthought, but on the same level and with the same agency as anywhere else.
Delivering on that in emerging markets takes more than government relations. It takes a coalition: governments, civil-society, NGO partners, multilateral institutions, and local implementers. We're hiring a Policy Programs and Partnerships Manager to build and work with these stakeholders in developing markets.
In this role, you will engage with governments directly; leading meetings with senior officials, shaping policy positions, representing Anthropic in regulatory conversations. You will also build the partnership portfolio that turns policy intent into delivered impact: identifying, structuring, and managing relationships with civil-society organizations, multilateral bodies, foundations, and in-country implementers.
You'll work closely with Public Policy, Beneficial Deployments, Commercial and GTM teams, Communications, and Legal.
What you'll do:
Government and policy
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Lead meetings with senior government officials, regulators, and multilateral bodies in priority markets — representing Anthropic independently.
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Own a set of priority-market government relationships from first meeting through to agreement and delivery.
Partnerships
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Develop strategy for engagement with multilateral institutions (UN agencies, development banks, regional bodies) on AI access, safety, and development.
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Build and manage a portfolio of civil-society, foundation and other regional partnerships and engagements; identifying the right organizations, structuring the collaboration, and working on the implementation plans.
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Design and stand up joint programs with partners: scope, deliverables, governance, and measurement.
Program execution
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Develop key initiatives as part of the Global Impact work-stream plan and drive execution across a globally distributed team.
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Contribute to Anthropic's presence at major multilateral summits and regional convenings.
You may be a good fit if you:
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Have 10+ years in international policy, development, diplomacy, or partnerships with clear evidence of operating internationally, not just advising on it.
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Have personally represented an organization to ministers, directors-general, or equivalent senior officials.
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Have built and managed partnerships with civil-society organizations, multilateral institutions, or foundations.
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Have worked directly with governments and implementing partners in emerging markets to drive impact.
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Combine external presence with operational rigor.
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Have high tolerance for ambiguity and operate with high autonomy across time zones.
Strong candidates may also have:
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Experience at a multilateral institution (UN system, development bank, regional body), a major foundation or international NGO, a foreign ministry, or the international/government-affairs function of a technology company.
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Substantive familiarity with AI policy topics including data sovereignty, compute access, local-language models, AI-for-development.
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A track record structuring multi-party coalitions or consortiums where government, civil society, and private sector had to work together.
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Working proficiency in a language relevant to priority markets.
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Experience inside a fast-growing technology company and comfort with the pace that comes with it.
Location and logistics
Ideally EMEA alongside the Global Impact Lead or SF with the HQ team. Expect meaningful international travel (30–40%) and working hours that bridge European and US Pacific time zones.
Logistics
Minimum education: Bachelor’s 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 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.
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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. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process
