The posting, in Anthropic's own words
archived Oct 1, 2026About 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 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. You will report to the head of Political Programs, Campaigns & 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. 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. 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.
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Key responsibilities
Build and run Anthropic's presidential engagement program for the 2028 cycle: map the prospective fields in both parties, offer AI policy education to candidates and their advisors on equal terms, prepare Anthropic's executives for those conversations, and plan ahead for the platform, convention, and transition periods Build a candidate outreach and education program for federal, state, and local races: introduce Anthropic to candidates in both parties, and brief them and their advisors on AI and AI policy on equal terms Build Anthropic's field programs: grassroots and grasstops organizing on AI policy in priority states and districts Run the day-to-day of Anthropic's political giving as one portfolio: the employee-funded PAC at the federal level and in certain states, voluntary employee participation programs, and corporate contributions where the law permits Develop, in partnership with the government relations teams, recommendations for the PAC board and company leadership on which candidates and committees to support, applying our written criteria on AI safety and democratic governance Build Anthropic's political intelligence: a current read of races, committees, states, and the presidential fields that informs leadership decisions and helps our government relations teams plan Design the education and events that help employees who choose to participate in politics do so in an informed way Build senior relationships in both parties, and represent Anthropic credibly in that community Support the head of the function in advising Anthropic's leadership on political risk and opportunity Design and run every program and communication with Legal and outside counsel so that it operates within campaign finance, lobbying, and gifts and ethics rules, and maintain the separations those rules require Work closely with the Federal, State and Local, Policy, and Communications teams so political programs fit Anthropic's policy positions and public voice Report on what the programs do, internally and as part of Anthropic's public disclosure Hire and manage a small team as the programs grow