Policy Design Manager, Age-Appropriate Design

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society as a whole. The team is a growing group of researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders dedicated to building beneficial AI systems. About The Role As a Safeguards Policy Design Manager, you will develop usage policies, clarify enforcement guidelines, and advise on safety interventions for our products and services. Your core focus will be on age‑appropriate design and experiences, including child safety, age assurance, content classification, and adult sexual content. You will help define best practices for developers building on Claude for deployment to users across different developmental stages, design age‑assurance policies that protect minors from inappropriate content, establish clear boundaries for adult content, and advise on opportunities for age‑appropriate helpfulness. Important context for this role: You may be exposed to and engage with explicit content spanning a range of topics, including those of a sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature. Responsibilities Serve as an internal subject matter expert in child safety, adult content, youth development, and age‑appropriate design to: Draft new policies that govern responsible use of our models for emerging capabilities and use cases. Design evaluation frameworks for testing model performance in these areas. Conduct regular reviews and testing of existing policies to identify and address gaps and ambiguities. Review flagged content to drive enforcement and policy improvements. Update usage policies based on feedback from external experts, the enforcement team, and edge cases you review. Work with safeguards product teams to identify and mitigate concerns, collaborating on interventions for users across different age groups. Advise on age assurance approaches and content classification frameworks in partnership with Enforcement, Product, Engineering, and Legal teams. Educate and align internal stakeholders around our policies and safety approach in your focus area(s). Keep up to date with AI policy norms, regulatory requirements (e.g., age‑appropriate design codes), and industry standards to inform our decision‑making. Qualifications Experience as a researcher, subject matter expert, or trust & safety professional in child safety, youth online safety, age assurance, developmental science, content classification and rating systems, or adult content policy. An advanced degree in developmental psychology, child development, education, or a related field is preferred. Experience drafting or updating product/user policies, bridging technical and policy discussions. Designing or implementing age‑appropriate experiences, age‑assurance mechanisms, or content classification/labeling systems. Experience working with generative AI products, including writing prompts for policy evaluations and classifier development. Ability to align product policy decisions across Product, Engineering, Public Policy, and Legal teams. Understanding of the challenges of implementing product policies at scale, especially in content moderation. Creative assessment of risks and benefits of new technologies, leveraging data and research to inform policy recommendations. Proficient at navigating and prioritizing work amid ambiguity. Annual Salary

$245,000—$285,000 USD

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 may vary based on internal job level requirements. Location‑based hybrid policy: Staff are expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require more on‑site presence. Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas. Upon an offer, we make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa via an immigration lawyer. Benefits Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a supportive office environment in our San Francisco headquarters. #J-18808-Ljbffr Anthropic