Tech Lead Manager
Anthropic
Tech Lead Manager
Anthropic
Builds Claude AI models with a focus on safety
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.
As part of our growing Data Science and Analytics team, you will play an instrumental role in our company’s mission of building safe and beneficial artificial intelligence by driving data-informed decision making across our organization. You bring experience from high-bar teams and are eager to help shape the norms and best practices of a growing data science team as Anthropic continues to scale. In this unique company, technology, and moment in history, your work will be critical to informing our strategy as we deploy safe, frontier AI at scale to the world.
You’ll be the senior data science leader embedded in our Growth team and a strategic thought partner to its product and marketing leads. The Growth team’s job is to keep Anthropic on the exponential by getting more people and companies using and paying for Claude. You’ll help set direction across acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization: bringing a point of view on where to invest, how to grow revenue, and how to deliver more value for our users. As a tech lead manager, you’ll also manage a small team of Product Data Scientists, setting their agenda and raising the bar for how data shapes growth decisions.
Act as a strategic thought partner to Growth product and marketing leads, helping shape growth strategy, roadmap priorities, and the major bets the team makes
Set the data science agenda for Growth, deciding where the Product Data Science team can have the most impact and what it should deprioritize
Manage and develop a small team of Product Data Scientists
Frame the most important and ambiguous questions facing Growth, from where the next users and companies will come from to what makes them stay and pay, size the opportunities, and make clear recommendations, including when they challenge the current direction
Define how Growth measures success, establishing the core metrics, guardrails, and measurement frameworks that tie short-term wins to long-term value
Set the standard for experimentation and causal inference across Growth, including holdouts and quasi-experimental methods where A/B tests aren’t practical, and personally lead the highest-stakes analyses
Guide how Growth measures the return on its programs, including marketing incrementality, LTV, CAC, and payback, and turn the results into budget and channel recommendations
Guide the team’s work on targeting and personalization, including how we decide which users get which message, offer, or experience and how we evaluate those decisions
Turn complex analyses into clear narratives and recommendations that drive decisions with senior leadership and cross-functional partners
Establish foundational data practices and shape the analytics infrastructure Growth needs to support rapid iteration and decision-making as our products grow
Have extensive experience in data science, including leading analytics for a growth or product area at significant scale
Have 5+ years managing data science teams, including setting team direction and developing senior data scientists
Have been a trusted partner to senior product, growth, or marketing leaders, with clear examples of changing a roadmap or high-stakes decision
Bring strong product sense and business judgment across the growth funnel, including the ability to frame the right question and take a position with incomplete information
Have deep expertise in experimental design, causal inference, and statistical modeling at high scale, with enough fluency in Python and SQL to stay hands-on and guide others’ technical work
Communicate clearly in writing and in presentations, including to executive audiences
Have a bias for action and thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where you must create clarity and drive progress
Care about the company’s mission of building helpful, honest, and harmless AI
Experience measuring marketing incrementality, including holdouts, geo experiments, or marketing mix modeling
Experience with targeting, personalization, or uplift models in production
Background at consumption-based, multi-product companies serving both consumers and enterprises
Experience with AI/ML products or large language models, including using coding agents in your own analytical workflow
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
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. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
For roles performing work in California: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
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We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.
Annual Salary: 460000 - 460000 USD
Anthropic builds the Claude family of AI models and sells them to businesses, software developers, and consumers, with research on making AI safe and understandable at the center of its work. In 2024 it introduced the Model Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI assistants to outside apps and data that OpenAI and Google adopted the next year. People use the Claude app to write and analyze files, programmers hand coding tasks to Claude Code, and companies build Claude into their own products through its API. Anthropic earns money from subscriptions, business plans, and usage-based API fees. Siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei founded Anthropic in 2021 with other former OpenAI employees, and it is based in San Francisco.
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