# Tabletop Exercise Lead, The Anthropic Institute

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $295,000-$295,000 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

## Job Description

You will build and lead the Institute's tabletop exercise program and the team that runs it. Based on trends visible in the exponential and in consultation with technical experts, you will set the research agenda: which questions the exercises should answer, which scenarios to run, with which audiences, and what each run is meant to test.

You will own the methods that make results comparable across runs and turn them into findings people outside the room can use. You will hire and manage a team plus a bench of facilitators, and you will be the program's public voice.

## Key Responsibilities

- Set the program's research agenda: the questions exercises should answer, the scenarios to run, and the audience for each

- Design exercises as empirical studies: define what each run tests, standardize scenarios and data capture so results are comparable, and use repeated play to map the range of outcomes

- Build the program's measurement: pre- and post-exercise assessments, decision logs, transcript analysis and after-action reports

- Turn results into findings: publish on what the exercises show, and brief senior people inside and outside Anthropic on the gaps they expose

- Hire, manage and develop a team and a bench of facilitators

- Make the program scalable: maintain a library of tested scenarios that the team reuses most of the time, refreshed on a regular cadence so they stay timely

- Build a facilitator kit ("TTX in a box") so other internal teams or external partners can run exercises to the same standard

- Create and direct the tools behind the exercises, including Claude-driven simulations that generate a live outside-world feed during play

## Requirements

- Have designed and run tabletop exercises, wargames, or simulations for senior decision-makers and published on the subject

- Have training in a discipline that uses simulation, experimental methods or structured analysis

- Have 10+ years of experience in national security, government, technology policy, or strategy

- Can keep the scenarios technically grounded with a strong grasp of AI capabilities and safety research

- Have managed a team, including hiring, setting direction, giving feedback and developing people

- Use Claude and other AI tools extensively in your own work

- Care about AI safety and Anthropic's public benefit mission

## Benefits

- Competitive compensation and benefits

- Optional equity donation matching

- Generous vacation and parental leave

- Flexible working hours

- Lovely office space

## Skills

### Required
- tabletop exercises
- wargames
- simulations
- AI safety
- team management

### Nice to have
- published research on wargaming methods
- simulation or crisis decision-making
- AI agents or language models as players, adjudicators or analysts in simulations

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