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 External Affairs lead to guide and execute our strategic engagements primarily in Germany, but also supporting the work of the wider EMEA team, particularly in central and eastern Europe. Working as part of the International Policy Team, based in the US, and the EMEA policy team, this role will help to shape Anthropic's approach to policy and regulatory developments in Germany and central Europe during a critical period in AI development and governance. You will be the day to day point of contact for the German government and its partners, ensuring that Anthropic’s leadership understands their priorities, and translating technology and policy developments within Anthropic for government and public sector policy partners. You will also work closely with our EMEA public sector sales team to support public sector deployment of Claude in high-leverage use cases that strengthen our mission, enhance government efficiency, and improve situational awareness of AI and emergent capabilities. This role is based in Berlin/Munich.
As part of the EMEA Policy Team, in this role you will
- Lead policy engagement with the German and local governments and public sector partners on issues related to government policy and regulatory implications for frontier labs
- Engage key policy stakeholders (e.g., via briefings, consultations, demos, roundtables), in coordination with the wider EMEA policy team
- Partner with the EMEA GTM team to support commercial efforts as appropriate
- Support and promote public-private research collaborations
- Build a coalition of government agencies, nonprofits, safety institutes, and academics in Germany and central Europe to share knowledge around AI policy and regulation
- Collaborate with technical teams to translate Anthropic research into concrete policy proposals, stakeholder education, and thought leadership opportunities
- Lead policy engagement with the German and local governments and public sector partners on issues related to government policy and regulatory implications for frontier labs
- Engage key policy stakeholders (e.g., via briefings, consultations, demos, roundtables), in coordination with the wider EMEA policy team
- Partner with the EMEA GTM team to support commercial efforts as appropriate
- Support and promote public-private research collaborations
- Build a coalition of government agencies, nonprofits, safety institutes, and academics in Germany and central Europe to share knowledge around AI policy and regulation
- Collaborate with technical teams to translate Anthropic research into concrete policy proposals, stakeholder education, and thought leadership opportunities
You may be a good fit if you
- Have 10+ years of experience working in public policy, corporate affairs, or a combination of government and related private sector experience
- Are high-agency, able to develop and execute strategy independently, taking account of dependencies with other cross-functional teams within Anthropic (including but not limited to policy, go-to-market, trust and safety, legal, product, research, comms, and marketing).
- Possess strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly when briefing policymakers and government officials
- Have demonstrated interest and experience in AI and the associated policy and regulatory questions that it poses (cybersecurity, copyright, skills, data protection, etc.)
- Have had experience of working in or with the German governmental system
- Are willing/able to engage with national governments across central Europe as Anthropic grows its presence in EMEA.
- Have 10+ years of experience working in public policy, corporate affairs, or a combination of government and related private sector experience
- Are high-agency, able to develop and execute strategy independently, taking account of dependencies with other cross-functional teams within Anthropic (including but not limited to policy, go-to-market, trust and safety, legal, product, research, comms, and marketing).
- Possess strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly when briefing policymakers and government officials
- Have demonstrated interest and experience in AI and the associated policy and regulatory questions that it poses (cybersecurity, copyright, skills, data protection, etc.)
- Have had experience of working in or with the German governmental system
- Are willing/able to engage with national governments across central Europe as Anthropic grows its presence in EMEA.
- This role is based in Berlin/Munich. This job will also require travel in EMEA (once or twice per quarter) and occasionally to the United States.
How we're different
- We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
- The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
