Policy Design Manager, Age-Appropriate Design

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DCOn-site 2mo ago

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

As a Safeguards Policy Design Manager, you will be responsible for developing usage policies, clarifying enforcement guidelines, and advising 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 and interactions, and establish clear boundaries for adult content and experiences. In addition, you will advise teams on opportunities for age-appropriate helpfulness, including advising cross-functional teams on beneficial use cases for younger users where appropriate. Safety is core to our mission and you’ll help shape policy creation and development so that our users can safely interact with and build on top of our products in a harmless, helpful and honest way.

*Important context for this role: In this position 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, leveraging deep expertise in child safety, adult content, youth development, and age-appropriate design to:
- Draft new policies that help govern the responsible use of our models for emerging capabilities and use cases
- Design evaluation frameworks for testing model performance in areas of expertise
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 our usage policies based on feedback collected from external experts, our enforcement team, and edge cases that you will review
Work with safeguards product teams to identify and mitigate concerns, and collaborate on designing appropriate intervention