Community Engagement Manager, Data Centers (Texas)

Join Anthropic as a Community Engagement Manager to build trusted relationships in Texas communities where our data centers operate, ensuring local benefits and engagement throughout the project lifecycle.

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.

• •Build and maintain trusted, sustained relationships with local elected officials, government agencies, economic development organizations, community groups, civic leaders, educational institutions, and workforce partners in the data center markets you cover.
• •Develop and execute a community engagement strategy for each of your markets, spanning site selection, pre-development, construction, and ongoing operations.
• •Build external coalitions, host education and listening sessions, and design local solutions that deliver real benefits to the communities where we operate.
• •Represent Anthropic in public forums, town halls, planning hearings, community events, and local media.
• •Monitor community sentiment and local political dynamics, and advise internal teams on risks, opportunities, and the right pace and posture for engagement.
• •Partner with the Real Estate and Infrastructure team to bring community input into how projects are planned, communicated, and delivered, not just how they are announced.
• •Work with the Communications team to develop proactive, locally relevant messaging.
• •Coordinate charitable giving, community investment, and economic development commitments in your markets, including managing nonprofit partner relationships.
• •Partner with the Energy and Sustainability team to explain our approach to environmental stewardship and respond to questions about power, water, and land use.
• •Build a community engagement playbook and repeatable processes that scale as Anthropic's infrastructure footprint grows.

• •7+ years of experience in community engagement specifically on data center, utility, energy, or large-scale industrial infrastructure projects, or in local government.
• •Familiarity with land use, zoning, and permitting processes at the local and regional level.
• •Experience managing corporate social responsibility programs.
• •Established relationships with economic development, workforce, or civic organizations in the markets this role covers.
• •Experience working with real estate, legal, communications, and policy teams at the same time.
• •A genuine interest in the communities where you work, not just the projects you are managing.

• •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 required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position.
• •Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
• •Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate.

• •Experience in community affairs, public affairs, economic development, government relations, local or regional government, or a closely related field.
• •Direct experience working for or engaging with local governments and a broad set of community stakeholders on behalf of large infrastructure, construction, energy, or technology projects, with a working understanding of how local politics and community dynamics actually play out.
• •A skilled relationship and coalition builder who earns trust with a diverse group of stakeholders, and who maintains relationships through difficult conversations.
• •The ability to represent a company credibly in public settings — town halls, hearings, press interviews.
• •Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to turn a complex operational plan into plain language that a local official or reporter can understand and respond to.
• •The ability to work independently, get up to speed quickly on complex policy issues, and manage multiple concurrent engagements across different markets without losing track of any of them.
• •Based in Texas or willing to relocate there, and prepared to travel regularly across the region.