Head of Corporate Communications, EMEA

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

Anthropic seeks a highly skilled communicator to lead Anthropic's corporate communications across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. As our first communications hire in the region, you will develop and drive effective communications campaigns that advance Anthropic's position in our key EMEA markets. The role will report to our Head of Communications in the US.

The ideal candidate is a strategic leader with extensive experience crafting impactful communications strategies that resonate with diverse audiences—from startups and established enterprises to consumers, investors and policymakers. You'll bring a proven track record of delivering exceptional results, strong market knowledge, and excellent media relationships. As a natural builder, you excel at creating teams and strategies from scratch while skillfully navigating a complex and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities: 

• Partner with regional and global leadership to define and drive impactful communication strategies that advance Anthropic’s goals in our priority markets.
• Translate strategy into breakthrough campaigns, narratives and initiatives that resonate with relevant audiences.
• Handle major corporate announcements, executive interviews, speaking events and coach our executive bench.
• Build strong relationships with journalists and relevant influencers.
• Partner cross-functionally with a wide range of teams including sales, marketing, legal, research, policy and external partners.
• Provide communications counsel to a wide range of stakeholders across the company including leadership.
• Build a high-performing team of in-house and agency talent.
• Protect and advance Anthropic's reputation and brand.

You may be a good fit if you: 

• Have 15 years leading corporate communications at high-growth technology companies.
• A proven track record of building teams and brands from the ground up.
• Have experience managing communications across EMEA markets; comfortable driving proactive campaigns and handling reactive issues for both B2B and consumer audiences.
• Are excellent at media relations and issues management and have a deep understanding of the business, political and regulatory landscape across EMEA, especially in the EU and UK.
• Can translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
• Possess truly stellar written and verbal communication skills.
• Have a strong grasp on the evolving media landscape and its role in shaping culture.
• Display strong operational capabilities.
• Are self-driven with a bias to action.
• Show excellent judgment and instincts in navigating ambiguous situations.
• Bring an open and curious mindset to deeply understand technical concepts, and leave ego at the door.

Sample projects:

• Define a compelling communications strategy that advances Anthropic’s position and increases awareness/adoption of Claude in our priority EMEA markets
• Identify and drive strategic initiatives in partnership with our sales, product and marketing teams
• Manage fast-moving inbound press enquiries on complex issues
• Manage executive visits to the region
• Hire, onboard and manage a lean, high-performing team across the region.

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. 

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.