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.
We are seeking an Executive Events Lead to build out Anthropic's executive events strategy and manage its execution. This is not traditional event management—this role is heavily focused on executive engagement. You will design and execute high-impact engagements that advance our most critical business relationships and our mission of ensuring safe and beneficial AI development.
You'll own the full spectrum of executive event strategy: from creating Anthropic-hosted customer advisory boards and thought leadership summits, to activating at premium third-party events. This role requires someone who can think like a strategist, execute like a producer, and engage like a trusted advisor to senior leadership—all while building scalable programs with lean teams in a fast-paced startup environment.
Responsibilities:- Partner directly with Marketing and company leadership to identify and orchestrate executive engagement opportunities through curated event experiences
- Develop and execute comprehensive strategy for executive events programs
- Own end-to-end planning and execution of Anthropic-hosted executive programs, including customer advisory boards, C-level summits, and strategic partner events
- Evaluate and select third-party events (conferences, sporting events, cultural experiences) that align with Anthropic's business goals and design activation strategies for maximum impact
- Manage high-touch hosted experiences and premium hospitality at events, both domestically and internationally
- Set agendas and develop compelling content programming that resonates with C-level audiences while advancing business objectives
- Build scalable frameworks and processes for executive event programs from the ground up in a startup environment
- Manage complex stakeholder relationships and program budgets
- Measure and report on program effectiveness, including executive satisfaction, relationship advancement, pipeline impact, and ROI
- Have 15+ years of experience in event marketing with an extensive focus in executive events or leading executive relationship management for high-touch, strategic executive programs.
- Excel at working directly with C-suite executives and their offices in matrixed organizations, understanding how to support and enable executive relationships
- Are a proven self-starter who can build and run sophisticated programs with small teams in fast-paced startup environments
- Have experience managing premium hospitality and event experiences (VIP sporting events, exclusive cultural experiences, high-end venues)
- Possess exceptional judgment in curating experiences appropriate for senior-level relationships and confidential strategic discussions
- Have deep experience creating content and agendas for executive audiences and can evaluate third-party event opportunities strategically
- Demonstrate strong business acumen with a track record of partnering with Sales teams to advance strategic accounts through events
- Possess strong strategic thinking combined with meticulous attention to premium experience details and can manage budgets delivering exceptional ROI
- Are passionate about AI development and its implications for society
Role-specific policy: For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco office at least 2 days a week, though we encourage you to apply even if you might need some flexibility for an interim period of time for relocation. This role will also require significant travel, up to 40-50% of the time, including international travel to support global executive events and activations.
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.
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.
How we're differentWe 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
What We Do
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
