Cybersecurity Product Leader for AI Safety

Menlo Ventures; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 385,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic, headquartered in San Francisco, is seeking a leader to own and grow the cybersecurity product portfolio. You will guide strategy, ship security products, and act as the company’s voice with CISOs, security vendors, and researchers.

This role spans 0->1 initiatives and scaling current capabilities, impacting multiple teams. The role requires deep security product experience, strong technical judgment, and the ability to drive collaboration across research, engineering, and policy.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications describe security product experience, leadership in security teams, and hands-on security work (application security, detection and response, vulnerability research, offensive security).
• Preferred qualifications include 12+ years building and shipping security products, AI product fluency, infrastructure awareness, strong technical judgment, and structured thinking.

Responsibilities

• Set Anthropic’s cybersecurity product portfolio strategy and be accountable for results.
• Ship security products: vulnerability discovery and remediation in Claude Code and future capabilities.
• Represent Anthropic on security externally to CISOs, vendors, researchers, governments, and press.
• Partner with research to identify model security gaps and plan improvements.
• Collaborate with safeguards and policy on model access for cybersecurity.
• Keep cross-functional threads moving across research, engineering, sales, safeguards, policy, legal, and comms.

Skills

Security product experience

Security team leadership

Application security

Detection and response

Vulnerability research

Offensive security

12+ years exp

AI product fluency

Infrastructure familiarity

Technical judgment

Structured thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Anthropic, headquartered in San Francisco, is seeking a leader to own and grow the cybersecurity product portfolio. You will guide strategy, ship security products, and act as the company’s voice with CISOs, security vendors, and researchers.

This role spans 0->1 initiatives and scaling current capabilities, impacting multiple teams. The role requires deep security product experience, strong technical judgment, and the ability to drive collaboration across research, engineering, and policy.