# Head of Policy Design, Societal Harms at Anthropic

- Company: Anthropic
- What the company does: Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Backed by Accel, Bessemer and General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://www.anthropic.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5407418008?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/anthropic-head-of-policy-design-societal-harms/

## About the role

Anthropic's Safeguards organization builds the policies, evaluations, and detection and enforcement systems that define and hold the limits on how Claude can be used. In this role, you'll lead our policy design team, managing the teams responsible for radicalization, child safety, user well-being, harmful manipulation, and election integrity, among other harm areas. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Experience leading teams — including managing managers or senior specialists — in AI safety, product policy, or a related field
- Deep, applied familiarity with consumer harm areas such as child safety, mental health and well-being, manipulation, or election integrity, and good judgment about how these harms differ in mechanism, severity, and mitigation
- A track record of exceptional cross-team collaboration: building durable working relationships with teams you don't control, and getting to shared decisions where ownership is genuinely distributed
- Experience translating policy positions into mechanisms that can be enforced and measured, and communicating the reasoning to technical and non-technical audiences, including executives
- Sound judgment in ambiguous, high-consequence decisions, and comfort making a call and escalating appropriately on incomplete information
- Subject-matter depth in one or more of the portfolio's harm areas, from academia, clinical practice, civil society, government, or trust & safety work

Tags: Safeguards (Trust & Safety)

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