# Head of Policy Design, Societal Harms

Hiring organization: [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/2894bf31-e6fe-43ec-a575-7c05e5428522

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 330000 – 395000 USD per year

## Summary

Lead the policy design team that establishes safety boundaries for Claude across consumer harms including child safety, election integrity, and user well-being. This role suits experienced leaders who combine deep expertise in specific harm areas with fluency in how large language models are trained and deployed, and who thrive managing teams and collaborating across organizational boundaries.

_Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

Model Evaluation

## Required

- Experience leading teams, including managing managers or senior specialists, in AI safety or product policy
- Deep applied knowledge of consumer harm areas such as child safety, mental health, manipulation, or election integrity
- Track record of exceptional cross-team collaboration and building working relationships without direct control
- Working understanding of how frontier models are developed, trained, fine-tuned, and deployed
- Ability to translate policy into measurable, enforceable mechanisms and communicate to technical and non-technical audiences
- Sound judgment in ambiguous, high-consequence decisions with incomplete information

## Nice to have

- Subject-matter expertise in harm areas from academia, clinical practice, civil society, government, or trust and safety
- Direct experience working with model training or research teams on model behavior
- Experience with generative AI safety systems including LLM-based classification and enforcement pipelines
- Experience engaging external stakeholders such as child safety organizations, election authorities, or regulators
- Experience using agentic AI tools to scale team operations

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5407418008