External Affairs, Southeast Asia

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 We are looking for an experienced Singapore-based Public Policy expert to lead Anthropic’s policy engagement in Singapore and across the region. In this role, you will advance practical AI governance and support Anthropic’s commercial expansion by building strategic relationships with Southeast Asian government authorities, developing substantive policy positions and papers, and engaging in regular outreach to drive progress in AI policy and AI safety. You will draw upon established relationships with key policymakers and their staff to shape how the region approaches AI regulation and safety during a critical period of governance development. As part of this role, you will collaborate with a dynamic, geographically distributed policy team on a variety of projects, including analyzing policy proposals, drafting submissions to requests for public comment, planning and executing policy campaigns in Southeast Asia, and providing policy advice to technical colleagues. This is a foundational hire — you will be building Anthropic’s policy presence in Singapore and the region from the ground up. In this role, you will: ・Conduct comprehensive mapping of key Southeast Asian AI policy stakeholders and build strategic relationships with government and regional multilateral officials, think tank researchers, and civil society leaders ・Brief a diverse set of policy and research actors looking to better understand AI safety and AI policy opportunities in the Southeast Asia context