# Policy Partnerships & Convenings Lead, Central Policy

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Washington, DC
**Role:** Partnerships
**Salary:** $295k – $345k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** policy partnerships, coalition building, Stakeholder Management, cross-functional program management, policy events, Team Management, Budget Management, ai policy, global policy strategy, advocacy, Strategic Planning, performance tracking
**Posted:** 2026-07-24

> Lead Anthropic's global policy partnerships and convenings function, building coalitions with civil society, industry, and third parties while managing a team of partnerships and events experts. Requires 12+ years building partnerships programs, team management experience, and strong cross-functional project skills in policy, research, and communications.

## Job Description

## 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.

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