As a Program Manager supporting our Privacy and Legal team, you will develop, implement, scale, and manage privacy-related policies and procedures to ensure that our AI products and services comply with privacy regulations and protect user data. You will work cross-functionally with Legal, Security, Product, and Engineering to identify and address technical privacy requirements and risks, define policies and procedures, support internal education on privacy issues, and foster a culture of privacy and ethics across the organization.
The ideal candidate will have experience managing privacy programs for businesses operating in complex, rapidly changing environments and will be an expert in translating broad-based principles into concrete actions and policies. You have a passion for data privacy and developing AI that is innovative, safe, and trustworthy.
About Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our customers and for society as a whole. Our interdisciplinary team has experience across ML, physics, policy, business and product.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, implement, and monitor comprehensive privacy policies, procedures, and controls aligned with relevant regulations such as GDPR and CCPA
- Handle and automate privacy processes like data subject requests, reporting, and audits where possible
- Conduct privacy design reviews and work with engineers to integrate privacy by design principles
- Perform privacy threat modeling, risk assessments, and mitigate privacy risks
- Create and maintain privacy infrastructure such as consent mechanisms, preference managers, and user controls
- Monitor systems and data practices to identify privacy issues and ensure compliance.
- Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams to balance privacy and product objectives
- Clearly document privacy policies, procedures, architectures, and controls
- Perform vendor due diligence and onboarding for privacy compliance
- Report on privacy metrics, issues, and progress to leadership
- Stay up-to-date on privacy best practices, tools, and emerging technologies
You may be a good fit if you:
- Have 5+ years of program management experience and have worked in a privacy role at a technology company
- Have a knack for identifying and implementing efficient processes and policies
- Have a passion for developing AI that is both innovative and trustworthy. You understand the opportunities of AI to benefit society as well as the risks and limitations that must be addressed
- Have experience operating in a fast-paced technology startup in which priorities shift rapidly and schedules “move to the left.” You thrive in this dynamic environment and pride yourself on your adaptability and ability to pivot with speed and grace
- Understand how to achieve the right balance between the organization’s mission and goals, when to be flexible and when to draw a hard line
- Thrive as a member of cross-functional teams building frontier technologies and want to develop a deep understanding of our technical teams and what we are building
- Enjoy wearing many hats in a fast-growing startup environment and are comfortable operating outside your areas of expertise and in uncharted legal territory
- Are a “doer” and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done. You’re a team player who doesn’t hesitate to jump in to solve difficult problems
Strong candidates may also have:
- Deep knowledge of privacy-enhancing technologies and privacy engineering concepts
- Hands-on experience building privacy features and controls
- Knowledge of relevant privacy laws and regulations
- Experience with data mapping, DPIAs, and managing privacy programs
- The ability to translate complex privacy concepts for broad audiences
- A passion for advancing privacy and ethical data practices. Familiarity with machine learning, generative models and products strongly preferred.
Annual Salary:
- The expected salary range for this position is $190k - $270k.
Logistics
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in our office at least 25% of the time.
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
US visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren’t able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate; operations roles are especially difficult to support. But if we make you an offer, we will make every effort to get you into the United States, 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.
Compensation and Benefits*
Anthropic’s compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits. We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates.
Equity - On top of this position’s salary (listed above), equity will be a major component of the total compensation. We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.
Benefits - Benefits we offer include:
- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching.
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
- Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness.
- Fertility benefits via Carrot.
- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.
* This compensation and benefits information is based on Anthropic’s good faith estimate for this position, in San Francisco, CA, as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors, including where you place on our internal performance ladders, which is based on factors including past work experience, relevant education, and performance on our interviews or in a work trial.
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. We’re trying to build a core of knowledge and intuition about the most robustly effective innovations in AI, and so thoroughly-documented null results are almost as valuable as positive discoveries. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both as needed.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation based 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.
