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Head of Policy Design, Societal Harms

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,

Company

Anthropic

Location

San Francisco, CA

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-28T19:56:10+00:00

Anthropic is hiring a Head of Policy Design, Societal Harms to lead the Safeguards policy design team. The role manages groups covering child safety, well-being, manipulation, and election integrity. Duties include setting mitigation strategy across model training, enforcement systems, and product interventions; coordinating policy decisions; and partnering with engineering, product, legal, research, and external experts. The posting asks for leadership experience in AI safety or product policy, applied familiarity with consumer harms, and knowledge of frontier model development. Work is onsite in San Francisco and includes exposure to explicit content.