Political Programs Lead

<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><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>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 our engagement with candidates and causes at all levels of government.</p> <p>You will report to the head of Political Programs, Campaigns &amp; Coalitions, who sets political strategy with company leadership. Your job is to help shape that strategy, turn it into programs, and run those programs day to day. This is a foundational role: you will design the programs, do much of the early work yourself, and hire as they grow.</p> <p>Anthropic's political participation is bipartisan, disclosed, and governed by written criteria with oversight. Anthropic and/or its political action committees support elected officials and candidates in both parties who share a commitment to the safe development of AI and to democratic governance. Employee participation is always voluntary. We hold ourselves to a standard above what the law requires, and this role carries that standard every day.</p> <p>Anthropic is equal parts research lab, policy think tank, and technology company. Decisions made over the next two years will shape the future enormously. We want every serious candidate and elected official, in both parties, to understand the technology and the case for governing it well.</p> <h2><strong>Key responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li> <p>Build and run Anthropic's presidential engagement program for the 2028 cycle: map the prospective fields in