Communications Lead, Claude Code

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, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

Anthropic is looking for a Communications Lead to own comms for Claude Code. You'll sit on the Product Communications team, working day-to-day with the Claude Code product team, developer relations, and marketing.

The media landscape for developer tools doesn't look like it did five years ago. We need someone who understands both traditional press and the channels where developers form opinions. You might have come up through an in-house comms team, or you might have run launches inside product marketing, handled press from a DevRel role, or found your way to this work from somewhere adjacent.

You should be a Claude Code user yourself and know the product well.

Responsibilities:

• Own communications for Claude Code, from the big launches to the steady rhythm of updates, community moments, and everything in between
• Build and maintain strong relationships with journalists, newsletter writers, podcasters, and creators covering dev tools and the AI ecosystem
• Lead cross-functional product launch communications, coordinating messaging across comms, marketing, developer relations, and product
• Advise leadership and DevRel when things move fast or catch fire, whether it’s an incident or a community thread
• Translate complex technical work into stories that land with developers and still make sense to broader audiences
• Develop messaging frameworks and content strategies that work across technical and non-technical audiences
• Prepare Claude Code engineers and product leads for external moments: podcasts, talks, press, etc.
• Think across channels (press, social, community, owned) and know which lever to pull for each moment
• Pay attention to what's actually working and build the program from there

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 8–12 years of experience in communications, PR, or developer marketing, with meaningful time focused on technical products or developer audiences
• Use Claude Code heavily and can talk specifically about how you use it in your day-to-day
• Are high-agency and low-ego, with a bias to action
• Write clearly and concisely, whether it's a launch post or a cross-functional update, a lot of context moves through this role and people need to be able to follow it
• Have a deep understanding of both traditional media channels and the emerging platforms where technical communities engage
• Are very online, follow the right people, know what's moving through Hacker News and developer social chatter, and catch things early
• Have real fluency in developer culture and know how trust gets earned there

Strong candidates may also

• Have experience at developer tools companies, infrastructure products, or open source projects
• Have an existing network in developer media, technical journalism, or the creator space
• Have experience managing communications for AI or ML products

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

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.

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: 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.

Visa sponsorship: 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.

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.

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How we're different

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.

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.

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 lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process