Political Programs Manager

Anthropic’s Mission
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 a Political Programs Manager to manage AnthroPAC, Anthropic’s employee-funded political action committee, and our broader political giving programs. You will work closely with our government relations team to ensure our political contributions strategy is executed effectively and in full compliance with federal and state law.

In this role, you will own the day-to-day operations of AnthroPAC—managing contributions, ensuring compliance with FEC regulations and contribution limits, serving as primary staff to the PAC’s bipartisan Steering Committee and Advisory Board, and tracking the political landscape to inform contribution strategy.

You will also manage Anthropic’s broader political giving programs, including corporate contributions where permitted, political education and disclosure, and coordination with external political organizations. You will work closely with government relations leadership to ensure our political spending aligns with our policy priorities.

Successful candidates will demonstrate experience managing a PAC, political contributions program, or political fundraising operation—with specific examples of maintaining compliance across complex regulatory environments, building effective fundraising operations, and executing contribution strategies that support broader political and policy objectives. Corporate PAC experience is preferred, but strong candidates coming out of campaign fundraising are welcome.

Anthropic is equal parts research lab, policy think-tank, and technology startup. We care deeply about safe development of AI systems and build partnerships with governments through proactive, opinionated, substantive policy conversations. We recognize that our approach to AI policy is distinctive—grounded in honest assessment of technological trajectories and authentic concern for safe scaling—and we need a Political Programs Manager who can ensure our political giving programs reflect and reinforce that positioning.

This role offers an opportunity to build a well-run, strategically effective political giving operation at a critical moment for AI governance.

Responsibilities
Manage day-to-day operations of AnthroPAC, including contribution tracking, disbursement processing, compliance with FEC regulations and contribution limits, and regular reporting to the PAC’s bipartisan Steering Committee and Advisory Board

Develop and execute PAC contribution strategy in coordination with government relations leadership, identifying priority races and candidates from both parties aligned with Anthropic’s policy objectives and recommending contribution decisions

Ensure full compliance with federal and state campaign finance laws, including contribution limits, disclosure requirements, and reporting obligations; maintain systems and processes that make compliance operationally reliable

Build and manage AnthroPAC’s fundraising operations, coordinating with employees and leadership to drive participation while rigorously protecting the voluntary nature of employee contributions and ensuring solicitation practices meet federal requirements

Manage Anthropic’s broader political giving programs, including corporate contributions, issue-based spending, and coordination with outside political organizations and advocacy groups

Track elections, campaigns, and the political landscape to inform PAC contribution strategy; provide analysis and recommendations to government relations leadership

Coordinate with outside counsel to ensure ongoing compliance with campaign finance law and serve as a primary point of contact for regulatory inquiries or audits

Coordinate cross-functionally with policy, communications, and executive teams to ensure political giving programs align with company-wide positioning and policy priorities

Build and maintain operational infrastructure for consistent, compliant political giving—including tracking systems, internal approval workflows, and reporting processes

Support government relations leadership by providing ground-level intelligence on the political landscape, candidate assessments, and stakeholder dynamics

You May Be a Good Fit If You:
Have 7+ years of experience managing a PAC, corporate political contributions program, or political fundraising operation

Possess strong working knowledge of FEC regulations, federal and state campaign finance law, contribution limits, and reporting requirements

Have a track record of building and managing fundraising operations and driving participation

Understand how political contribution strategy connects to broader government relations and policy objectives

Have experience working with outside counsel on campaign finance compliance

Demonstrate strong operational and organizational skills in compliance-sensitive environments

Have experience tracking elections, campaigns, and the political landscape and translating that into actionable recommendations

Can manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-moving political environment

Have exposure to technology policy or political engagement in the tech sector

Are drawn to working with an organization that approaches AI policy with intellectual honesty and distinctive positioning

Compensation
Annual Salary:
$230,000 – $230,000 USD

Logistics
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Field of study: Relevant to the role

Experience: Based on internal job level requirements

Hybrid policy: Staff expected in-office at least 25% of the time

Visa sponsorship: Available for some roles; Anthropic will make reasonable efforts to secure a visa if an offer is made

Anthropic encourages applications even from candidates who do not meet every qualification. Representation and diverse perspectives are important to us.

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How We’re Different
We believe the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic, we work as a single cohesive team on a few large-scale research efforts. We value impact—advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI—over smaller, isolated projects.

We view AI research as an empirical science, with much in common with physics and biology. We are highly collaborative and host frequent research discussions to ensure we pursue the highest-impact work.

Our research directions continue work our team contributed to prior to Anthropic, including:

GPT‑3

Circuit-Based Interpretability

Multimodal Neurons

Scaling Laws

AI & Compute

Concrete Problems in AI Safety

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 collaborative office environment.