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Head of Policy Design, Societal Harms

Anthropic· Safeguards (Trust & Safety)
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San Francisco, CA$330k - $395kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Leadership role overseeing policy design for societal harm areas within Anthropic's Safeguards organization, partnering with research, product, and engineering to define and enforce mitigations for risks associated with Claude and related products.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, develop, and grow the managers and teams responsible for the consumer harms portfolio, including child safety, user well-being, harmful manipulation, and election integrity
  • Coordinate policy decisions across the portfolio, and build the mechanisms that keep them tracked, consistent, and legible — so stakeholders know what was decided, why, and who owns what
  • Set the strategy for how mitigations built on top of the model — policies, detection and enforcement systems, and product interventions — complement what is trained into the model itself, partnering closely with the alignment training team that owns Claude's character
  • Prioritize across harm areas competing for the same resources, and make those tradeoffs and their rationale clear to leadership
  • Serve as the escalation point for high-severity and ambiguous consumer harms decisions, including rapid response to emerging risks
  • Partner with engineering, data science, product, legal, and research across the model development cycle so consumer harms considerations are represented from training through launch, on every surface where Claude is deployed
  • Engage external experts, civil society organizations, and regulators, and translate that engagement into stronger policy and enforcement
  • Spend time developing leads who own each harm area while addressing policy questions

Qualifications

  • Experience leading teams — including managing managers or senior specialists — in AI safety, product policy, or a related field
  • Deep, applied familiarity with consumer harm areas such as child safety, mental health and well-being, manipulation, or election integrity
  • Track record of exceptional cross-team collaboration and distributed ownership
  • Working understanding of how frontier models are developed and deployed — training, fine-tuning, evaluations, launch processes; varies by model environments
  • Experience translating policy positions into enforceable mechanisms and communicating reasoning to technical and non-technical audiences, including executives
  • Sound judgment in ambiguous, high-consequence decisions and comfort making calls with incomplete information

Skills

Required:Leadership of complex policy teamsCross-functional collaborationFrontier model understandingPolicy-to-enforcement translation
Nice to have:Stakeholder engagement

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Lovely office space in San Francisco (onsite)
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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