Head of Policy Design, Societal Harms

Job Overview

You will lead Anthropic's policy design team within the Safeguards organisation, focusing on societal harms. This role involves managing teams responsible for various harm areas, such as radicalization, child safety, and election integrity.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and grow managers and teams for the consumer harms portfolio.
• Coordinate policy decisions and build mechanisms for tracking and consistency.
• Set strategies for mitigations and partner with teams to implement them.
• Prioritize harm areas, make tradeoffs, and communicate rationale to leadership.
• Serve as an escalation point for high-severity consumer harms decisions.
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, product, legal, and research teams.
• Engage external experts, civil society organisations, and regulators.

Requirements

• Experience leading teams in AI safety, product policy, or a related field.
• Familiarity with consumer harm areas such as child safety and election integrity.
• Track record of cross-team collaboration and building working relationships.
• Understanding of how frontier models are developed and deployed.
• Experience translating policy positions into enforceable mechanisms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Subject-matter depth in harm areas like child safety or election integrity.
• Experience with generative AI safety systems.
• Background in academia, clinical practice, civil society, government, or trust & safety work.

Logistics

• Annual salary: $330,000 - $395,000 USD.
• Hybrid work policy: 25% office time.
• Visa sponsorship available.