External Affairs, France

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
We are looking for an External Affairs and Policy Lead to guide our strategic engagements primarily in France, but also supporting the work of the wider EMEA team, including Southern Europe and Africa. Working closely with the International policy team, based in the US, and the EMEA policy team, this role will help to shape Anthropic's approach to policy and regulatory developments in France and southern Europe during a critical period in AI development and governance. You will be the day to day point of contact for the French government and its partners, ensuring that Anthropic's leadership understands their priorities, and translating technology and policy developments within Anthropic for government and public sector policy partners. You will also work closely with our EMEA public sector sales team to support public sector deployment of Claude in high-leverage use cases that strengthen our mission, enhance government efficiency, and improve situational awareness of AI and emergent capabilities. This role is based in Paris.

In This Role, You Will

• Lead policy engagement with the French and other regional governments and public sector partners on issues related to government policy and regulatory implications for frontier labs
• Engage key policy stakeholders (e.g., via briefings, consultations, demos, roundtables), in coordination with the wider EMEA policy team
• Partner with the EMEA GTM team to support commercial efforts
• Support and promote public-private research collaborations
• Build a coalition of government agencies, nonprofits, safety institutes, and academics to in Europe to share knowledge around AI policy and regulation
• Collaborate with technical teams to translate Anthropic research into concrete policy proposals, stakeholder education, and thought leadership opportunities

You May Be a Good Fit If You

• Have 10+ years of experience working in public policy, corporate affairs, or a combination of government and related private sector experience
• Are high-agency, able to develop and execute strategy independently, taking account of dependencies with other cross-functional teams within Anthropic (including but not limited to policy, go-to-market, trust and safety, legal, product, research, comms, and marketing).
• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly when briefing policymakers and government officials
• Have demonstrated interest and experience in a complicated technical subject and the associated policy and regulatory questions that it poses (ideally, AI, but other examples could be quantum computing, cryptography, fusion power, etc.)
• Have had experience of, or led, campaign efforts to shape or create policy change in France
• Are willing/able to engage with national governments across Southern Europe as Anthropic grows its presence in EMEA.

This role is based in Paris. This job will also require travel in EMEA (once or twice per quarter) and occasionally to the United States.

The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.

Annual Salary
€215.000—€ EUR

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.
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