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:
We are seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager to support critical Tech Enablement initiatives across our organization. In this role, you will drive strategic improvements focused on engineering excellence, scalability, and elevating our engineering processes. By collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will identify opportunities for optimization and implement solutions that enhance our engineering capabilities, enabling Anthropic to remain at the forefront of AI development and innovation.
Responsibilities:
- Drive engineering excellence initiatives, promoting best practices, and ensuring high-quality deliverables across our technical teams.
- Identify and implement strategies to scale our technical organizations.
- Elevate our engineering processes by conducting thorough assessments, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing industry best practices.
- Collaborate with technical leaders to define and execute on program objectives, ensuring alignment with overall company goals.
- Provide clear and transparent reporting on program status, issues, and risks to executives and stakeholders.
You may be a good fit if you:
- Have several years of experience in program management, with a focus on engineering or technical projects.
- Have a proven track record of driving process improvements and organizational change in a technical environment.
- Have exceptionally strong interpersonal and communication skills that enable you to influence without authority, build cross-organizational support, cooperation and action around initiatives and process adoption.
- Think strategically and execute tactically, with a keen eye for detail.
- Have a high threshold for navigating ambiguity and are able to balance setting strategic priorities with rapid, high-quality execution.
- Thrive in unstructured environments, and have a knack for bringing order to chaos.
- Are passionate about Anthropic’s mission and ensuring AI is developed safely.
Representative Projects:
- You’ll partner with org leaders, engineering managers and IC’s from all technical pillars at Anthropic.
- Drive the implementation of standardized documentation processes and templates across technical teams, including decision docs, design reviews, onboarding docs, and runbooks, to ensure consistency and clarity in communication.
- Spearhead the development and rollout of a centralized task tracking system for all technical teams, evaluating and selecting the most suitable tool (e.g., Asana, Jira) and establishing standardized ways of working (e.g., Agile, Sprints) to streamline project management and cross-functional dependencies.
- Collaborate with technical leaders to establish team metrics, tracking, and dashboards, including operational metric, external metrics, and team health indicators to monitor performance and drive continuous improvement.
- Lead the development and implementation of an improved engineering onboarding process, collaborating with cross-functional teams to create comprehensive documentation, training materials, and mentorship programs that enable new hires to quickly integrate into their teams and contribute effectively to Anthropic's mission.
The expected salary range for this position is:Annual Salary:$300,000—$320,000 USD
Logistics
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.
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.US Benefits - The following benefits are for our US-based employees:
- Optional equity donation matching.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching.
- 22 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.
UK Benefits - The following benefits are for our UK-based employees:
- Optional equity donation matching.
- Private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
- Pension contribution (matching 4% of your salary).
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
- Health cash plan.
- Life insurance and income protection.
- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
* This compensation and benefits information is based on Anthropic’s good faith estimate for this position as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. Employees based outside of the UK or US will receive a different benefits package. 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.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.
