Incident Response Manager - Privacy

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 290,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic, a safety-focused AI company based in San Francisco, is seeking an experienced Incident Response Manager to own and evolve privacy incident management. This senior role sits on the Privacy team, partnering with Legal, Engineering, Security, and Product to drive notifiability and systemic improvements.

You will lead detection, triage, containment, remediation, and post‑incident learnings, develop playbooks and KPIs, and drive cross‑functional training while ensuring governance and

Qualifications

• Led or built incident response programs at a technology company.
• Turned incident data into organizational improvements with cross-functional impact.
• Comfortable on-call and leading incident response during high-severity events.
• Built and scaled operational processes in new environments.
• Drove accountability and follow‑through across teams without direct authority.
• Strong analytical skills with incident trend analysis and metrics reporting.
• Highly organized with structure in fast-changing situations.
• Excellent communication under pressure with executive stakeholders.
• Thrives in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end privacy incident management program: detection workflows, response processes, escalation paths, communication standards, and remediation tracking.
• Serve as incident commander for privacy incidents with cross‑functional coordination.
• Establish and run incident commander rotations within privacy and varying severities.
• Drive post‑incident accountability: capture, assign, track, and close action items across teams.
• Gather, analyze, and report incident trends to surface systemic risks and root causes.
• Translate trend analysis into cross‑functional initiatives with broad fixes and improvements.
• Lead post‑mortems and retrospectives, socializing learnings across the organization.
• Partner with Privacy Legal on breach/notifiability assessments and communications with customers/regulators.
• Develop and maintain privacy incident response docs, playbooks, and training materials.
• Collaborate with detection engineering to improve alert fidelity and reduce noise.
• Define, track, and report incident management KPIs to leadership.
• Support cross‑functional privacy awareness training and exercises.

Skills

Incident response

Program management

On-call

Cross-functional leadership

Analytics

Communication under pressure

Process improvement

Incident trends

Privacy operations

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

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 is working on frontier AI systems that handle sensitive information at enormous scale. How we protect that data, and how we build privacy into our systems rather than bolting it on afterward, is central to our mission of building AI that is safe and beneficial.

We’re looking for an experienced Incident Response Manager to own and evolve incident management within the privacy team. This is a senior‑level specialization on the Technical Program Manager ladder, focused on how we detect, respond to, and learn from privacy incidents. These incidents involve personal data subject to GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA and similar laws, and to the contractual commitments Anthropic makes to its customers.

You’ll be the driving force behind maturing and scaling our incident response lifecycle, from detection and triage through containment, remediation, and post‑incident review. Critically, some of the highest‑impact work in this role happens after the immediate response: gathering data on incident trends, reporting on patterns and root causes, and working cross‑functionally across engineering, security, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure that broad fixes and systemic improvements are actually implemented. You will partner closely with Privacy Legal on notifiability and communications, and with the Privacy Program team on executive and board reporting; this role owns the engineering‑side programme, its metrics and its follow‑through.

You won’t just manage incidents: you’ll make sure we get meaningfully better after each one.

Key responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end privacy incident management program: detection workflows, response processes, escalation paths, communication standards, and remediation tracking.
• Serve as incident commander for privacy incidents, driving clear coordination across executive, engineering, security, legal, and other appropriate stakeholders.
• Establish and run incident commander rotations within privacy, ensuring clear ownership and effective coordination during incidents of varying severity.
• Drive post‑incident accountability by defining how action items are captured, assigned, tracked, and completed across teams, ensuring follow‑through on both tactical fixes and strategic improvements.
• Gather, analyze, and report on incident trends and patterns to surface systemic risks, recurring root causes, and areas where the organization is most vulnerable.
• Translate trend analysis into actionable cross‑functional initiatives: partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, and product teams to prioritize and implement broad fixes and preventive improvements that address root causes rather than symptoms.
• Lead incident review forums (post‑mortems, retrospectives) and ensure learnings are captured, socialized, and acted upon across the organization.
• Partner with Privacy Legal on breach and notifiability assessments against regulatory timelines, coordinate customer and regulator communications when required, and keep privileged and non‑privileged records appropriately separated.
• Develop and maintain privacy incident response documentation, playbooks, runbooks, and training materials; keep them current as our products, data flows and obligations evolve.
• Partner with detection engineering to improve alert fidelity, reduce noise, and shorten time‑to‑detection for privacy events.
• Define, develop, and track incident management KPIs and report regularly to leadership.
• Support broad cross‑functional training and initiatives to uplevel privacy awareness across the company (e.g. Tabletop exercises, training, talks).

Minimum qualifications

• Have led or built incident response programs at a technology company, ideally in a high‑growth or security‑intensive environment.
• Have a demonstrated track record of turning incident data into organizational improvements: not just writing post‑mortems, but driving the cross‑functional work to implement systemic fixes.
• Are comfortable participating in on‑call responsibilities and leading incident response during high‑severity privacy events, including off‑hours.
• Have experience building and scaling operational processes from the ground up in environments where structure didn’t previously exist.
• Excel at driving accountability and follow‑through across multiple teams without direct authority—you know how to influence, track, and close the loop.
• Have strong analytical skills and experience with incident trend analysis, metrics reporting, and data‑driven prioritization.
• Are highly organized with a knack for bringing structure to ambiguous, fast‑moving situations.
• Have excellent communication skills, especially under pressure and when coordinating across technical and non‑technical stakeholders, including executive leadership.
• Thrive in fast‑paced environments where priorities shift and you’re often working with incomplete information.

Preferred qualifications

• Have 7+ years of experience in technical program management, incident management, or security/privacy operations, with significant time spent in an incident response context.
• Are familiar with privacy regulation and breach‑notification obligations (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA or similar) and comfortable working with legal counsel under privilege, or have a legal background.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary: $290,000 — $365,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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.

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. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.