About Anthropic

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.

About the role:

Anthropic’s Security team is looking for a Technical Program Manager to own and drive programs that span both within the Security team and across the broader company. In this role, you’ll be responsible for the cross-functional strategy, planning, and execution of technical programs that both enable our Security team to protect our most valuable assets and be worthy of our users’ trust.

We are a small team of generalists who are adaptable and add value fast. We excel at maintaining a broad view of our work but diving deep into the details when necessary. We understand business goals, translate and organize them into technical programs and projects, and drive execution. We are comfortable engaging with both non-technical and technical stakeholders. You’ll have opportunities to drive a wide variety of Security-related initiatives while helping to scale our Technical Program Management function.

Responsibilities:

• Drive execution of multiple simultaneous, cross-functional projects and/or programs.
• Lead and manage strategic planning sessions and cross-functional prioritization.
• Lead program status reviews and prepare regular stakeholder and executive communications.
• Effectively set timelines and manage cross-functional project teams to deadlines through the proactive management of blockers, scope, shifting priorities, and risks.
• Interface with a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders across Anthropic.
• Partner with Engineering Managers and other Technical Program Managers to improve the operational efficiency needs within teams.
• Effectively manage change, shift gears comfortably, decide and act without having the total picture, and handle risk and uncertainty.

 You may be a good fit if you:

• Have experience driving cross-functional projects, building longer-running programs, and interfacing with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Have experience executing technical programs that require systems and engineering-level knowledge.
• Have a deep interest in and/or a willingness to learn about cybersecurity or regulatory compliance.
• Have experience leveraging LLMs to automate workflows, improve operational efficiency, and develop novel solutions for complex technical and organizational challenges. 
• Have experience reporting on complex programs through data-driven benchmarks, including writing SQL queries.
• Have strong interpersonal skills that enable you to influence without authority, build cross-organizational support, cooperation and action around security initiatives, policies and procedures.
• Have a track record for being able to successfully organize, implement and manage complex programs and projects.
• Are used to working through trade-offs, balancing competing priorities, and having your mind changed.

Strong candidates may also have some of the following:

• Past experience as an engineer or similar technical role. 
• Past experience as a manager. 
• 5+ years of experience in Technical Program Management or similar technical role.
• Past experience building a centralized Technical Program Management function.

Sample Projects: 

• Contributing to initiatives related to the Security Commitments listed in Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy.
• Partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to build a Third Party Risk Management program.
• Working across Security and other cross-functional stakeholders to build an Identity program
• Helping to establish our Security Operations Center (SOC). 
• Driving efforts around risk management, product security, and other areas that improve the security of Anthropic.

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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.

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.

How we’re different

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.

Come work with us!

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.