Policy Partnerships & Convenings Lead, Central Policy

Key Responsibilities

• Own Anthropic's global partnerships strategy, coordinating across internal teams to translate the company's policy campaigns into a coherent, rigorously tracked portfolio of coalitions, alliances, memberships, and third-party relationships across regions.
• Scope and execute policy partnerships programs, including in regions of the world where Anthropic is newly expanding its footprint and relationships, vendors, or precedents may not yet exist.
• Manage the policy events portfolio, including Anthropic-hosted tentpole programs and Anthropic's presence at partner conferences.
• Build and maintain relationships with key third-party stakeholders, including civil society, academic, and private-sector leaders, and represent Anthropic and its policy positions directly in those settings.
• Create and maintain the systems that track, measure, and optimize the partnerships and convenings portfolio, including how the team reports impact to Anthropic's leadership.
• Manage, develop, and retain a small team: setting priorities, clarifying scope, and holding a high bar for judgment and execution.
• Build the playbooks, templates, and delegation model that allow regional policy teams to execute partnership and event programs consistently without central bottlenecks.

Minimum Qualifications

• Have directly managed people doing substantive external-facing policy work, and can point to colleagues whose careers advanced under you.
• Have stood up credible programs in unfamiliar markets on compressed timelines — entering a country or region with no existing relationships and producing meaningful policy outcomes quickly.
• Excel at cross-functional project and program management, with a proven track record managing complex programs spanning research, policy, legal, and communications teams with competing priorities.
• Are comfortable making judgment calls in ambiguous situations — able to synthesize incomplete information from multiple teams, identify blockers, and drive decisions when strategic direction is evolving.
• Exercise sound judgment on prioritization, managing stakeholder expectations with clarity and directness, including when the answer is no.
• Understand U.S. federal, state, and local policy dynamics and can orient quickly in new jurisdictions.
• Are comfortable with budget ownership and financial accountability.

Preferred Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience building and leading partnerships efforts at leading technology companies, advocacy organizations, or government, including 3+ years managing high-performing teams.
• Track record of effective, information-rich advocacy with third-party and policy audiences.
• Experience building and leveraging coalitions, including industry and civil society stakeholders, to inform and influence policy actors.
• Experience working with communications teams to craft media and messaging campaigns for policy.
• Ability to hold a high bar on events — know the difference between a convening that moves policy and one that merely happens.
• Experience educating policy audiences about AI/ML or other complex technical topics.
• Experience leading policy or partnerships work outside the United States, particularly in markets where a company is establishing its first presence.
• Experience in high-growth technology companies, or as an early functional hire building a team from one person to several.

Compensation & Logistics

• Annual Salary: $295,000–$345,000 USD
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• 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.
• This role requires approximately 25% travel, including international travel to priority regions and travel to Anthropic offices for alignment and planning sessions.