Anthropic is offering $600,000 to someone to shape its Wall Street story as it gears up for a blockbuster IPO
Anthropic is offering $600,000 to someone to shape its Wall Street story as it gears up for a blockbuster IPO.
Anthropic wants to make sure it says all the right things to investors ahead of its IPO — and it's willing to pay generously to make that happen.
According to a recent official job post (1), the AI lab behind Claude wants to bring a "director of investor relations" to their team whose key responsibility is to build the company's "investor engagement and investment narrative."
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As compensation for this position, Anthropic will pay an annual salary between $425,000 and $600,000.
In Anthropic's overview for the new role, they wrote that the director of investor relations will be "responsible for deeply understanding investors' perspectives on Anthropic as well as the broader industry, bringing strategic insights to leadership to help inform key decisions."
A few specific tasks listed in the job application included creating "investor-facing messaging" and representing Anthropic at "investor meetings."
But this role isn't just about projecting a clear brand image to the outside community. The director of investor relations will work on "internal briefings on how the market is thinking about Anthropic."
In case you were curious, $600,000 is actually a bit lower than what top-earners make at Anthropic. According to data from the salary benchmarking platform levels.fyi, compensation at Anthropic ranges (2) from $198,588 per year for the "lowest" paid position to $841,090.
Moneywise reached out to Anthropic for further comments, but had not heard back before time of publication.
More stories about Anthropic suggest the AI lab is trying to strengthen its already dominant position before going public.
For instance, news of this job listing comes just a few months after Anthropic hired Kenneth Dorell as its head of investor relations. Prior to working with Anthropic, Dorell held the same role at Facebook's parent Meta.
Anthropic also attracted another high-profile employee this summer when Nobel laureate John Jumper announced on X (3) that he was joining the AI lab after years at Google's DeepMind.
Besides attracting top talent, Anthropic is working hard to secure as much compute as possible to keep Claude strong.
In May, Anthropic and SpaceX (4) announced a deal granting the AI lab access to the Colossus 1 data center, which houses 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs. The New York Times (5) also broke news of a proposed deal between Anthropic and Meta to lease computing power from the social networking site for $10 billion over the next two years.
Judging by the latest Series H funding round in May, Anthropic (6) will likely hit the market with a valuation around $965 billion.
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