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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 a Political Programs Manager to manage AnthroPAC, Anthropic’s employee-funded political action committee, and our broader political giving programs, working closely with our government relations team to ensure our political contributions strategy is executed effectively and in full compliance with federal and state law. In this role, you will own the day-to-day operations of AnthroPAC—managing contributions, ensuring compliance with FEC regulations and contribution limits, serving as primary staff to the PAC's bipartisan Steering Committee and Advisory Board, and tracking the political landscape to inform contribution strategy. You will also manage Anthropic’s broader political giving programs, including corporate contributions where permitted, political education and disclosure, and coordination with external political organizations. You will work closely with government relations leadership to ensure our political spending aligns with our policy priorities. Successful candidates will demonstrate experience managing a PAC, political contributions program, or political fundraising operation—with specific examples of how you have maintained compliance across complex regulatory environments, built effective fundraising operations, and executed contribution strategies that supported broader political and policy objectives. Corporate PAC experience is preferred, but we welcome strong candidates coming out of campaign fundraising. Anthropic is equal parts research lab, policy think-tank, and technology startup. We care deeply about safe development of AI systems, and build partnership with governments through proactive, opinionated, substantive policy conversations. We recognize that our approach to AI policy is genuinely distinctive in the marketplace—grounded in honest assessment of technological trajectories and authentic concern for safe scaling—and we need a Political Programs Manager who can ensure our political giving programs reflect and reinforce that positioning. This role offers an opportunity to build a well-run, strategically effective political giving operation at a critical moment for AI governance.

In This Role, You Will

• Manage the day-to-day operations of AnthroPAC, including contribution tracking, disbursement processing, compliance with FEC regulations and contribution limits, and regular reporting to the PAC's bipartisan Steering Committee and Advisory Board
• Develop and execute PAC contribution strategy in coordination with government relations leadership, identifying priority races and candidates from both parties aligned with Anthropic’s policy objectives and recommending contribution decisions to the bipartisan Steering Committee
• Ensure full compliance with federal and state campaign finance laws, including contribution limits, disclosure requirements, and reporting obligations; maintain systems and processes that make compliance operationally reliable
• Build and manage AnthroPAC’s fundraising operations, coordinating with employees and leadership to drive participation while rigorously protecting the voluntary nature of employee contributions and ensuring solicitation practices meet both the letter and spirit of federal requirements
• Manage Anthropic’s broader political giving programs, including corporate contributions, issue-based spending, and coordination with outside political organizations and advocacy groups where appropriate
• Track elections, campaigns, and the political landscape to inform PAC contribution strategy; provide analysis and recommendations to government relations leadership on political opportunities and risks
• Coordinate with outside counsel to ensure ongoing compliance with campaign finance law, and serve as a primary point of contact for regulatory inquiries or audits related to political giving
• Coordinate cross-functionally with policy, communications, and executive teams to ensure political giving programs align with company-wide positioning and policy priorities
• Build and maintain the operational infrastructure that enables consistent, compliant political giving—including contribution tracking systems, internal approval workflows, and reporting and disclosure processes
• Support government relations leadership in developing political strategy by providing ground-level intelligence on the political landscape, candidate assessments, and stakeholder dynamics

You May Be a Good Fit If You

• Have 7+ years of experience managing a PAC, corporate political contributions program, or political fundraising operation; corporate PAC experience is preferred, but we welcome strong candidates coming out of campaign fundraising
• Have strong working knowledge of FEC regulations, federal and state campaign finance law, contribution limits, and disclosure and reporting requirements; you can translate complex regulatory requirements into reliable operational processes
• Have a track record of building and managing fundraising operations—whether for a corporate PAC, a campaign, or another political organization—with experience driving participation and meeting contribution targets
• Understand how political contribution strategy connects to broader government relations and policy objectives; you can help ensure political spending reinforces company positioning on key issues
• Have experience working with outside counsel on campaign finance compliance and can serve as an effective internal point of contact for regulatory matters
• Demonstrate strong operational and organizational skills—building systems, managing workflows, tracking contributions and deadlines, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks in a compliance-sensitive environment
• Have experience tracking elections, campaigns, and the political landscape, and can translate that intelligence into actionable recommendations on contribution strategy
• Can manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-moving political environment, particularly around election cycles and reporting deadlines
• Have exposure to technology policy or political engagement in the technology sector; you understand or are eager to learn the unique political dynamics and stakeholder considerations that come with operating in the AI space
• Are drawn to working with an organization that approaches AI policy with intellectual honesty and distinctive positioning; you understand how to ensure political giving programs reflect and reinforce that credibility

Annual Salary

$230,000—$230,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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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.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

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