# Policy Advocacy - Political Research

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $230,000-$265,000 USD
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

## Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced public opinion researcher to build and expand Anthropic's in-house polling and research function. This role will be fundamental to understanding how key audiences perceive and respond to Anthropic's policy positions, messages, and campaigns.

## Key Responsibilities

- Develop a comprehensive strategy for our in-house political research function that aligns with Anthropic's policy goals

- Identify, evaluate, and establish relationships with leading research and polling firms

- Conduct detailed, proactive research to test core messages, policy proposals, and campaign themes

- Execute rapid-response polling to quickly assess Anthropic's messaging strategy in response to external events

- Work with external affairs colleagues and policy communications to identify research priorities and translate insights into actionable strategic recommendations

- Develop and maintain a knowledge management system for polling data, insights, and recommendations

- Manage polling vendors at scale

- Participate in strategy sessions and provide thought partnership on the design of messages, policy proposals, and campaigns

- Create clear, compelling deliverables that distill polling findings into insights and recommendations

- Identify opportunities to build and scale the polling function over time

- Track and report on the impact and utility of research

## Requirements

- Experience designing and executing public opinion research

- Ability to analyze quantitative and qualitative polling data and translate findings into clear, decision-ready written recommendations

- Experience selecting, briefing, and managing external polling or research vendors

- Strong writing and presentation skills

## Preferred Qualifications

- 10+ years of professional experience in political or public opinion research

- Corporate public affairs experience

- Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills

- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

- Comfort operating in ambiguous environments

- Passion for AI policy and alignment with Anthropic's safety mission

## Skills

### Required
- public opinion research
- polling data analysis
- strategic thinking
- writing and presentation skills

### Nice to have
- political research
- corporate public affairs
- strategic problem-solving
- organizational skills

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