Head of Recruiting, Communications, Brand, & Marketing

San Francisco · USD 295,000-375,000 / year · 5+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 2, 2026

At a glance

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.

Anthropic is looking for a recruiting leader to run the team that hires for the Communications, Brand, and Marketing teams.
In this role you will lead a team of experienced recruiters and be the main recruiting partner to the leaders of these functions and their operations partners.

Lead, coach, and retain a team of senior recruiters, with a focus on fast and timely feedback
Build deep trust with the leaders of Communications, Brand, and Marketing, learning what they need, raising hiring risks early, and pushing back when the plan and the market don't match
Run a tight operation by owning headcount plans, pipeline data, and reporting, keeping them accurate enough for leaders and operations partners to plan from
Use data to show where each search stands, where it is stuck, and what it will take to close
Work with operations partners for these teams on headcount, planning, and priorities
Set one consistent process across the team regarding how a search runs, how interviews are structured, how data stays clean, and how recruiters use systems and Claude workflows
Hire recruiters onto your own team, including specialists in communications and brand hiring
Partner with Compensation, Finance, People Partners, and Recruiting Operations so that candidates and hiring teams get a clear, fair process

You have managed recruiters, including senior recruiters, and maintained a strong team culture
You have been the trusted recruiting partner to senior executives, and you can explain how you earned that trust
You run recruiting operations with rigor, knowing your numbers with headcount and pipeline data that hold up when checked
You stay steady at a high pace for long stretches and keep your team steady too
You give and take direct feedback and handle hard conversations with care
You keep sensitive information confidential and use good judgment on sensitive searches
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

10+ years of recruiting experience, including 5+ years managing recruiters or recruiting managers
Experience leading an executive search function, or owning a recruiting portfolio for Communications, Brand, Corporate Affairs, or Marketing
Experience supporting leaders whose work is public and high-stakes
Experience scaling a recruiting team at a fast-growing company
Fluency with recruiting systems and AI tools, and a record of teaching recruiters to use them well

Location-based hybrid policy expecting staff to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require more time in offices