Regional State and Local Affairs Lead, Southern States

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2>
<p>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.</p></div><h2 class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="1:1-1:19;0-18"><strong>About the role</strong></h2>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="3:1-3:314;20-333">We are looking for a State and Local Affairs Lead to lead Anthropic's engagement with state and local governments across the Southern United States, advancing AI policy, legislation, and regulation that supports Anthropic's mission of ensuring that the world safely makes the transition through transformative AI.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="5:1-5:454;335-788">In this role, you will work closely with Anthropic's Southern Regional State and Local Lead, as well as coordinate with our Policy leadership, Communications, and Legal teams. You will own Anthropic's relationships and legislative and regulatory work across the South—engagement with state legislatures, governors' offices, attorneys general, state agencies, and local governments. You will be based in Texas and will travel regularly across the region.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="7:1-7:362;790-1151">Successful candidates will demonstrate a track record of political strategy and execution—with specific examples of how you have contributed to complex policy campaigns, built durable relationships with elected officials and community leaders, supported legislative and regulatory outcomes, and executed with accountability and focus in fast-paced environments.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="9:1-9:524;1153-1676">Anthropic is equal parts research lab, policy think-tank, and technology startup. We care deeply about safe development of AI systems, and build partnership with governments through proactive, opinionated, substantive policy conversations. We recognize that our approach to AI policy is genuinely distinctive in the marketplace—grounded in honest assessment of technological trajectories and authentic concern for safe scaling—and we need a regional lead who can bring that positioning to life at the state and local level.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="11:1-11:320;1678-1997">This role offers an opportunity to be part of building a high-impact state affairs operation at a critical moment for AI policy. You will be responsible for executing on strategic priorities across your region, building relationships with government stakeholders, and contributing to the broader state affairs function.</p>
<h2 class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="13:1-13:25;1999-2023"><strong>Key responsibilities</strong></h2>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="15:1-15:186;2025-2210">Serve as Anthropic's lead for state and local government affairs across the Southern United States, working in close coordination with the other Regional State and Local Affairs Leads</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="16:1-16:161;2211-2371">Build and maintain relationships with state legislators, legislative staff, governors' offices, attorneys general, and state agency leaders across your region</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="17:1-17:154;2372-2525">Engage directly with local officials whose decisions affect Anthropic's work—mayors, city councils, county commissions, and economic development boards</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="18:1-18:201;2526-2726">Track state and local legislation and regulatory proceedings affecting AI and the technology sector, provide analysis and intelligence to inform company strategy, and represent Anthropic's positions</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="19:1-19:185;2727-2911">Build durable partnerships with local and regional organizations, including chambers of commerce, economic development groups, labor organizations, universities, and school districts</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="20:1-20:132;2912-3043">Represent Anthropic at legislative hearings, regional events, and public forums, including with audiences who are skeptical of AI</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="21:1-21:103;3044-3146">Work with the Communications team to develop clear, accurate messaging for regional policy campaigns</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="22:1-22:141;3147-3287">Translate Anthropic's technical research and policy positions into engagement strategies tailored to Southern state political environments</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="23:1-23:99;3288-3386">Manage the outside advisors and registered lobbyists who support Anthropic's work in your region</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="24:1-24:151;3387-3537">Coordinate with Anthropic's policy, communications, legal, and executive teams to ensure that regional activity aligns with company-wide positioning</li>
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<h2 class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="26:1-26:27;3539-3565"><strong>Minimum qualifications</strong></h2>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="28:1-28:80;3567-3646">Align with our mission and embrace the imperative of policy impact and change</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="29:1-29:177;3647-3823">Have experience in state and local government affairs, political strategy, or legislative roles, with demonstrated success contributing to legislative and regulatory outcomes</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="30:1-30:105;3824-3928">Are based in Texas, or are willing to relocate, and are prepared to travel regularly across the region</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="31:1-31:191;3929-4119">Have existing relationships with state and local leaders in Texas and other Southern states, including legislators, governors' offices, attorneys general, or county and municipal officials</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="32:1-32:208;4120-4327">Understand how state legislatures and executive branches work—committee processes, legislative and regulatory procedures, and how to move policy forward—and understand where local authority begins and ends</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="33:1-33:122;4328-4449">Have a track record of executing on strategic objectives and delivering measurable outcomes in government affairs roles</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="34:1-34:167;4450-4616">Have experience building partnerships with external organizations including chambers of commerce, economic development groups, labor organizations, and universities</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="35:1-35:120;4617-4736">Demonstrate understanding of how to build coalitions and identify aligned constituencies to advance shared objectives</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="36:1-36:133;4737-4869">Can manage multiple priorities and stakeholder relationships across different states and adapt to different political environments</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="37:1-37:104;4870-4973">Have the ability to work under time pressure and manage competing demands in high-stakes environments</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="38:1-38:110;4974-5083">Can translate complex technical topics into clear, accessible language for policymakers and residents alike</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="39:1-39:104;5084-5187">Have experience working with communications teams to develop effective messaging for policy campaigns</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="40:1-40:97;5188-5284">Are comfortable being honest about tradeoffs, including in rooms where people disagree with us</li>
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<h2 class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" data-sourcepos="42:1-42:29;5286-5314"><strong>Preferred qualifications</strong></h2>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="44:1-44:105;5316-5420">8+ years of experience in state and local government affairs, political strategy, or legislative roles</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="45:1-45:168;5421-5588">Exposure to technology policy or emerging technology regulation, and an understanding of the unique challenges of navigating policy for rapidly evolving technologies</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2" data-sourcepos="46:1-46:106;5589-5694">Drawn to working with an organization that approaches AI policy with intensity and intellectual honesty</li>
</ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. </p>
<p>For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.</p></div><div class="title">Annual Salary:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$230,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$265,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><h2><strong>Logistics</strong></h2>
<p><strong>Minimum education: </strong>Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience</p>
<p><strong>Required field of study: </strong>A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience</p>
<p><strong>Minimum years of experience: </strong>Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position</p>
<p><strong>Location-based hybrid policy:</strong> 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.</p>
<p><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Visa sponsorship:</strong> 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.</p>
<p><strong>We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.</strong> 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.<br><br><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Your safety matters to us.</strong> To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit <u data-stringify-type="underline"><a class="c-link c-link--underline" href="http://anthropic.com/careers" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="http://anthropic.com/careers" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">anthropic.com/careers</a></u> directly for confirmed position openings.</p>
<h2><strong>How we're different</strong></h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h2><strong>Come work with us!</strong></h2>
<p>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. <strong data-stringify-type="bold">Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage:</strong> Learn about <a class="c-link" href="https://www.anthropic.com/candidate-ai-guidance" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://www.anthropic.com/candidate-ai-guidance" data-sk="tooltip_parent">our policy</a> for using AI in our application process.</p></div>