San Francisco, CA /

Leadership Support /

Full-time

/ Hybrid

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We are looking for a Chief of Staff to support Anthropic's CSO Jared Kaplan. Reporting to the Chief Science Officer, the Chief of Staff to the CSO serves as a force multiplier, strategic advisor, special projects person, and oversees key operations for the research organization. This critical role helps allocate the CSO’s time and attention, helps manage complex technical projects, builds seamless systems, and ensures the CSO has real-time visibility into progress and risks. The CoS will work directly with the leadership team to ensure Anthropic runs smoothly and will work on a variety of projects across all aspects of company affairs.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our customers and for society as a whole. Our interdisciplinary team has experience across ML, physics, policy, business and product.

Responsibilities:

• Help the CSO prioritize and ensure his time allocation reflects his priorities
• Help the CSO manage, prioritize, and respond to inbound requests
• Work closely with the CSO to synthesize his vision and priorities into an executable technology roadmap and key initiatives
• Translate strategy into tactical plans
• Oversee timelines for technical projects (e.g. new model development, collecting specific types of human feedback, evaluating models for safety properties), and provide project management, updates to the CSO, and identify and remove blockers
• Serve as “eyes and ears” for the CSO, Ensuring the CSO has the information needed to make important decisions, and that information travels from the CSO and Anthropic’s leadership team to relevant parts of the organization
• Ensure the CSO has visibility into key projects across the organization
• Own high-priority meetings for the CSO: e.g., structuring the agenda and attendee lists, scoping and reviewing meeting materials, and following up on post-meeting tasks
• Proactively surface emerging resourcing constraints, technical bottlenecks, or roadblocks to the CSO before issues arise
• Staff and prep the CSO for external speaking engagements
• Operate as a thought partner for the CSO, and as a source of objective counsel and feedback
• Identify opportunities for operational improvements as Anthropic expands its team and work

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have experience in research organizations and the ability to grasp technical concepts quickly
• Are a clear and superb written and verbal communicator
• Are extraordinarily execution-oriented and have a bias towards action and iteration
• Have high emotional intelligence, and are able to deftly navigate complex cross-team projects and help accelerate decisions in a fast-moving environment
• Quickly synthesize information from meetings and other sources to provide recommendations
• Are proactive, and can identify emerging opportunities and risks that merit Anthropic leadership’s attention
• Have experience with artificial intelligence, machine learning or another scientific discipline
• Enjoy working cross-functionally with highly technical colleagues across the organization
• Are results-oriented, with a bias towards flexibility and impact
• Are deeply motivated by our mission Have experience in technology operations, program management, or engineering management
• Have project management skills with ability to manage complexity and drive results through cross-functional collaboration
• Are a strategic thinker with analytical skills to translate vision into executable plans

Annual Salary (USD)

• The expected salary range for this position is $130k-$190k USD

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.

Compensation and Benefits *

Anthropic’s compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits. We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates.

Equity - On top of this position's salary (listed above), equity will be a major component of the total compensation. We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.

Benefits - Benefits we offer include:

- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.

- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.

- 401(k) plan with 4% matching.

- 21 weeks of paid parental leave.

- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!

- Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness.

- Fertility benefits via Carrot.

- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.

- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.

* This compensation and benefits information is based on Anthropic’s good faith estimate for this position, in San Francisco, CA, as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors, including where you place on our internal performance ladders, which is based on factors including past work experience, relevant education, and performance on our interviews or in a work trial.

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. We're trying to build a core of knowledge and intuition about the most robustly effective innovations in AI, and so thoroughly-documented null results are almost as valuable as positive discoveries. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both as needed.

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.

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation based 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.

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