Policy Design Manager, Integrity and Authenticity
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC · Safeguards (Trust & Safety) · listed October 17, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Manager
Experience asked
5+ years
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$245,000 – $285,000 USD
Requirements listed
7
Length
1,959 words
In the posting’s own words
As an Integrity and Authenticity Policy Manager, you will be responsible for developing, refining, and maintaining policies that prevent the misuse of AI systems for deception, manipulation, and unauthorized monitoring at scale. You will serve as the policy owner for risks related to inauthentic behavior, influence activity, surveillance, and the profiling of individuals and groups, and you will help shape policy frameworks across several areas, including authenticity, information integrity, and privacy and surveillance.
What it asks for · 7
- Working knowledge of how deceptive campaigns and covert monitoring operate in practice, including account networks, bot operations, data aggregation pipelines, and attribution methods
- Familiarity with surveillance technologies and their misuse, including social media monitoring tools, people-search services, location tracking, spyware, facial recognition, and open-source intelligence techniques used against individuals
- General knowledge of the global regulatory landscape around data protection, privacy, platform regulation, and digital services accountability
- Strong policy writing skills, with the ability to translate complex threat frameworks into clear, enforceable guidelines
- Experience designing policies and workflows that enable both clear human enforcement decision-making and technical implementation in ML classifiers and detection pipelines
- Strong collaboration skills and extensive experience partnering with Engineering, Data Science, Legal, Threat Intelligence, and Policy teams on cross-functional initiatives
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain deceptive tactics, surveillance methods, and policy rationales to diverse audiences, including non-specialists and policymakers
Also a plus
- 5+ years of experience in policy development, trust and safety, threat intelligence, or platform integrity, with hands-on work on inauthentic behavior, surveillance-related abuse, or data misuse
- Experience in privacy policy, privacy engineering, or data protection work, including familiarity with privacy impact assessments and data minimization principles
What the job covers
- Develop and define policy boundaries for covert monitoring, tracking, and surveillance across different contexts, drawing the distinction between malicious behaviors and compliant dual-use scenarios
- Write policy guidance on facial recognition, voice cloning, and geolocation inference, specifying which uses require consent and which are prohibited outright
- Map the surveillance lifecycle, from target selection and data collection through analysis and covert deployment, and define the policy line at each stage so that interventions can occur early in the chain
- Design and oversee evaluations that measure the model's capability to support social media monitoring, people-finding, predictive profiling, and the identification or tracking of specific people, to build, develop and improve safeguards with cross-functional partners to prevent malicious behaviors
- Write and refine external-facing Usage Policy language and develop training guidelines, assessment rubrics, and evaluation protocols for enforcement teams, with emphasis on indicators of covert monitoring and population-level targeting
- Validate enforcement decisions and automated assessments, provide policy guidance on complex edge cases such as investigative research into surveillance tools, coordinate with civil society, privacy experts, threat intelligence researchers, and academics, and serve as the escalation point for complex integrity and surveillance cases
Tools and skills named
Models & research
- Evaluations2×
- Inference2×
- Machine learning2×
Ways of working
- Cross-functional4×
Security & compliance
- Regulatory2×
Words the posting leans on
- policy23×
- surveillance14×
- data12×
- monitoring11×
- privacy8×
- behaviors7×
- enforcement7×
- experience7×
- integrity7×
- complex6×
- covert monitoring6×
- develop6×
- skills6×
- threat intelligence6×
- tracking6×
- assessments5×
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