Program Manager, Communications

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2>About the role</h2> <p>As Program Manager on Anthropic's Communications team, you'll be the person the Communications team relies on when stakes are highest: product launches, major announcements, and fast-moving reactive situations. You'll turn complexity into clarity — structuring the work, orchestrating the people, and surfacing the right decisions to leadership at the right moments.</p> <p>This is a senior role for someone who deeply understands how communications teams operate — how campaigns come together, how crisis response actually unfolds, where things break down — and pairs that fluency with exceptional program management craft. You'll work across external, internal, and editorial communications and partner closely with comms leadership, serving as connective tissue across the organization.</p> <p>Communications is fluid: news breaks, plans change, launches move. The right person brings structure without rigidity, creating clarity under pressure and flexing to absorb a last-minute pivot.</p> <h2>Responsibilities:</h2> <ul> <li>Run the operating rhythm for major campaigns: planning, prioritization, status reporting that keeps leadership informed without slowing the team down, and retrospectives that produce real improvements</li> <li>Translate fast-changing, ambiguous projects into clear workstreams, owners, timelines, and decision points, so the comms team always knows what's happening, who owns what, and which decisions are needed when</li> <li>Serve as a strategic thought partner: bring recommendations, surface risks and tradeoffs early, and drive decisi