Strategic Projects Lead (Recruiting)

Anthropic; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental and vision insurance

Parental leave (22 weeks)

Flexible time off

Wellness stipend

Relocation support

Home office stipend

Equity packages

Education stipend

Job summary

Anthropic seeks a Strategic Projects Lead to manage recruiting's most complex, cross-cutting initiatives. You will coordinate across teams, ensure decisions are principled and well-documented, and maintain a coherent recruiting approach as the company scales.

You will be the senior IC shaping recruiting operations, building trust with senior stakeholders, and turning feedback into scalable processes while driving multiple high-stakes bets forward in a highly autonomous role.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years in program management, business operations, chief of staff, or people/talent roles at a fast-growing company.
• Experience in deep-tech environments with technical recruiting complexity.
• Experience operating across multiple time zones and jurisdictions.
• Experience running recruiting or talent operations at global scale.
• Have taken a big process or policy change through an organization end to end and made it stick.
• Can lose a decision cleanly: disagree, commit, and execute with full credibility, knowing which calls are reversible and which aren't.

Responsibilities

• Own the operating rhythm across the teams that support recruiting
• Define the problem, ship the smallest testable version, and hand each one off as a repeatable program
• Lead recruiting's biggest ambiguous bets and drive them to a clear resolution
• Spot recurring friction and fix the system behind it
• Turn analytics into standards and simple SOPs
• Stay fluent in recruiting systems and data to call downstream impact of decisions

Skills

Strategic program management

Cross-team collaboration

Stakeholder management

Ambiguity handling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ATS systems

HRIS

Data analytics tools

Job description

• We're looking for a Strategic Projects Lead to take on recruiting's most complex, cross-cutting work: the high-stakes decisions and initiatives that span many teams and don't fit neatly into any one group's remit
• You'll bring the structure, coordination, and follow-through that help these get made well, and see them through as the company scales
• You'll work across every team that touches hiring, and you'll move work forward through partnership, not ownership
• The job is influence: bring the right people together, make sure decisions are principled and well-documented, and keep recruiting's approach coherent over time
• You'll be the most senior individual contributor for how recruiting operates, and success depends as much as on building trust across senior stakeholders with different priorities as it does on building good systems
• This is a high-autonomy role for someone who thrives in complexity and ambiguity
• You know recruiting well enough to feel where it breaks, and you're energized by holding several very different problems at once and driving each to a clear resolution
• Take on recruiting's biggest ambiguous bets: define the problem, ship the smallest testable version, and hand each one off as a repeatable program before moving to the next
• Own the operating rhythm across the teams that support recruiting, so we plan, review, and decide as one function
• Spot recurring friction and fix the system behind it, not just the case in front of you
• Own process design when company-wide changes run through recruiting, and drive them to real adoption with the partners who own the build and the comms
• Be recruiting's DRI for headcount and workforce planning, including hiring pace and readiness for new regions
• Own the operating standard for interviewing, like scheduling lead time and interviewer load, and lead the cross-team diagnosis when it slips
• Turn analytics into standards and simple SOPs, and build documentation a new leader could pick up without you in the room
• Keep the right people informed at the right time without becoming a bottleneck, and stay fluent in our recruiting systems and data so you can call the downstream impact of any decision
• You'll partner directly with the leads for Recruiting Systems, Analytics, Interview Programs, and other teams. You won't run their teams or build their systems, but you'll know each well enough to make calls that hold up across all of them

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
• 22 weeks of paid parental leave
• Flexible paid time off and absence policies
• Mental health support for you and your dependents
• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Optional equity donation matching at a 1:1 ratio, up to 25% of your equity grant
• Retirement plans with competitive matching
• Life and income protection plans
• $500/month flexible wellness and time saver stipend
• Commuter benefits
• Annual education stipend
• Home office stipends
• Relocation support for those moving for Anthropic
• Daily meals and snacks in the office

• Have taken a big process or policy change through an organization end to end and made it stick
• Have been part of a talent team or partnered closely with one, and understand how recruiting operates day to day
• Can lose a decision cleanly: disagree, commit, and execute with full credibility, knowing which calls are reversible and which aren't
• Set the strategy and vision for your area rather than executing someone else's plan
• Have put AI to work in real workflows: redesigning process, automating the repetitive layer, and shipping faster
• Have 8-10+ years in program management, business operations, chief of staff, or people/talent roles at a fast-growing company, with increasing scope over time
• Create structure and clarity in genuinely ambiguous environments
• Close the loop, hold the bar, and finish the unglamorous work
• Think in systems: you see how the pieces connect, anticipate downstream effects, and design fixes that work across team boundaries
• Test the smallest version of an idea in the real world before building the big one, and say clearly what you're not doing and why
• Have owned several complex workstreams at once and made hard prioritization calls without much guidance
• Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• 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
• Experience in deep-tech environments with technical recruiting complexity
• Working knowledge of recruiting compliance, like OFCCP, GDPR, and regional employment law, and how it shapes process and systems decisions
• Experience operating across multiple time zones and jurisdictions
• Experience running recruiting or talent operations at global scale