Safeguards Emerging Products, Policy and Enforcement Lead
Anthropic
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
As The Policy and Enforcement Lead for the Safeguards Emerging Products PA, you will drive our cross-functional efforts to identify, assess, and mitigate potential harms across our product portfolio, with particular focus on new product launches and model deployments. This role combines strategic leadership in policy development with hands-on safety evaluation management, working closely with Safeguards’ Product, Research and Engineering, and cross functional stakeholders.
Important Context: In this position, you may be exposed to and engage with explicit content spanning a range of topics, including those of a sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature. There is also an on-call responsibility approximately once a quarter.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and develop a team of policy and enforcement analysts focused on identifying emerging AI risks, and partnering with product and engineering to build mitigations
- Lead comprehensive safety evaluations and assessments for new product launches and model deployments
- Lead product policy risk assessments for all product launches, working closely with product teams to track launch timelines and provide comprehensive risk analysis
- Serve as the subject matter expert for AI safety and policy considerations, providing guidance across teams
- Design and implement systematic approaches to identifying potential harms, including cyber threats, misuse patterns, and emerging risks
- Partner with Safeguards’ Product and Engineering teams to develop and enhance safety testing frameworks
- Contribute to and improve on our policy frameworks that address both current and anticipated AI challenges
- Lead cross-functional initiatives to implement safety measures and monitoring systems
- Work with Safeguards’ Product and Engineering to define and track key metrics to measure the effectiveness of safety initiatives
- Develop and maintain documentation of safety protocols and assessment methodologies
You may be a good fit if you have:
- Proven ability to thrive in dynamic environments where priorities evolve rapidly and success requires adaptable planning and strong cross-team coordination
- Comfortable balancing hands-on technical work with management responsibilities, demonstrating both strong individual contribution and team leadership capabilities
- Combined 10+ years of experience in Policy, Product Safety, or related fields
- Excellent people management skills with experience leading technical teams
- Deep understanding of AI technology, its applications, and emerging trends
- Strong background in identifying and analyzing potential AI harms, including cyber security implications
- Experience with safety evaluations and risk assessments for technology products
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for various audiences
- Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders including product, engineering, legal, comms and public policy teams
- Excellent project management skills with ability to drive multiple concurrent initiatives
- Strong communication and presentation skills
The expected salary range for this position is:
Logistics
Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
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.
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.