AV Production Specialist

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>As an AV Production Specialist, you'll own the day-to-day operation of the event technology behind how Anthropic communicates — the all-hands, the executive presentations, the live broadcasts. You are the owner of these productions: accountable for their technical outcome from the moment a request arrives through to the follow-up after the room clears, and the technical partner our executives, events team, and communications partners rely on to make them land.&nbsp;</p> <p>This is an operations role with engineering depth behind it. You'll work across the same technology stack as our broadcast engineering practice with your center of gravity in execution and service. You'll keep our event spaces in a state of readiness through preventative maintenance, and be the calm, capable presence that executives, comms partners, and event producers learn to trust. Your work directly enables the collaboration and transparency that advance our AI safety mission.</p> <h2><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h2> <p><strong>Live Event Production &amp; Run-of-Show</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own the technical execution of live and hybrid events, from small executive presentations to company-wide all-hands broadcasts reaching thousands of participants</li> <li>Serve as technical director for live productions across the full range, up to and including executive presentations and company-wide broadcasts Operate production systems during live events including video switchers, audio consoles, camera systems, playback, and streaming encoders</li> <li>Build and run the technical run-of-show: cue sheets, source lists, rehearsal schedules, and backup plans</li> <li>Direct contractors and onsite technicians during productions, delegating clearly under time pressure</li> <li>Troubleshoot and escalate complex production issues with clear diagnostic context&nbsp;</li> <li>Communicate status, risk, and resolution to non-technical stakeholders in clear, calm, jargon-free language</li> <li>Handle confidentiality and access requirements for sensitive sessions, including recording and streaming controls</li> </ul> <p><strong>Event Intake, Scoping &amp; Scheduling</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own the event technology intake process end-to-end: reques