Anthropic

Communications Manager, Claude Code

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY Full Time

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 seeking an exceptional communicator to own the communications program for Claude Code. This role sits within the Product Communications team, partnering closely with the Claude Code product team, developer relations, and marketing.

You will lead product launches, drive developer community narratives, and build the press and media relationships that make Claude Code impossible to ignore. The ideal candidate combines deep communications expertise with genuine technical fluency and an intuitive feel for how developer audiences discover, evaluate, and adopt tools.

We’re looking for a high-agency communicator who understands the new world order of media — where a well-timed Hacker News thread or a trusted developer newsletter can outperform a major media hit.

Claude is a prominent team member here, but this is a role for humans: people who are BS detectors, who carry context the model doesn’t have, who make judgment calls, read the room, and bring the kind of critical thinking that remains a genuine comparative advantage.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the end-to-end communications strategy for Claude Code: from major launches to the ongoing drumbeat of product updates and community moments
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with journalists, newsletters, podcasters, and creators covering developer tools and the AI ecosystem
  • Lead cross-functional product launch communications, coordinating messaging across comms, marketing, developer relations, and product
  • Translate complex technical capabilities into stories that resonate for developers and for broader audiences 
  • Engage authentically in developer communities — forums, Discord, HN, Reddit — as a credible voice
  • Develop messaging frameworks and content strategies that work across technical and non-technical audiences
  • Manage communications risks and provide sound counsel to leadership in fast-moving or sensitive situations
  • Track what’s resonating, raise the bar on craft and impact, and build the program over time

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
  • Possess truly stellar written and verbal communication skills
  • Have deep understanding of both traditional media channels and the emerging platforms where technical communities actually engage
  • Can fluently translate complex technical concepts for developer audiences without losing the broader narrative
  • Are high-agency and low-ego — you move fast, you own your work, and you don’t need a lot of hand-holding
  • Are self-driven with a bias to action — you spot an opportunity, scope it quickly, and ship
  • Display strong operational capabilities and can move from strategy to execution without losing altitude
  • Have real fluency in developer culture — you’ve spent time in these communities and know how to earn trust

Strong candidates may also have:

  • Experience at developer tools companies, infrastructure products, or open source projects
  • A background in software engineering, computer science, or another technical discipline
  • An existing network in developer media, technical journalism, or the creator space
  • 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.

Annual Salary:
$185,000$255,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

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