Partnership Manager, AI for Science Anthropic

CDFAM - Computational Design Symposium; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 215,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

Optional equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space in SF

Job summary

Anthropic seeks a Program Manager to grow the AI for Science program, building and managing partnerships with labs worldwide to advance Claude in life sciences across biomedical, chemistry, and materials science. You’ll shape strategy and engage interdisciplinary partners to demonstrate or expand Claude’s capabilities.

This foundational role blends science, business, and policy, requiring strong relationships, project management, and the ability to work across teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in life sciences research or related field.
• 3+ years of experience managing external partnerships, grants, or multi-stakeholder initiatives.
• Deep relationships and credibility in life sciences domains with universities, labs, and tools companies.
• Technical fluency to engage on AI concepts, LLM capabilities, and work with technical teams.
• Analytical mindset with data-driven strategy and impact measurement.
• Experience building communities of practice among scientists across domains.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with programs or organizations built from scratch.
• Drive to maximize impact for underserved communities.
• High agency and comfort with ambiguity; ability to build while flying.
• Willingness to travel for partner visits and conferences.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute AI for Science API credit strategy, managing partnerships with labs, startups, and foundations.
• Identify, evaluate, and onboard new partners via API credit applications and relationship-building.
• Serve as primary relationship owner for AI for Science, coordinating with Applied AI, product, and GTM teams to deliver impact.
• Compile reports and learnings from the AI for Science ecosystem to inform research and GTM priorities.
• Manage timelines, resources, and regular reporting for the AI for Science program.
• Translate partners’ technical and operational needs into deployment plans.
• Prototype and test early concepts to learn alongside partners and unblock progress.
• Set a research agenda for AI’s impact on labs across domains.
• Identify opportunities to create public goods—open-source tools, datasets, and research.
• Represent Anthropic at global scientific conferences and convenings.
• Help shape team processes and culture as Life Science work scales.
• Strong prioritization to manage many partnerships and opportunities.

Skills

Life sciences partnerships

External partnerships

Science-technology bridge

Technical fluency with AI/LLM

Strategic thinking

Community building

Entrepreneurial mindset

Ambiguity tolerance

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

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 Beneficial Deployments

Beneficial Deployments ensures AI reaches and benefits the communities that need it most. We partner with nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven organizations to deploy Claude in education, global health, economic mobility, and life sciences. We prioritize opportunities to make AI more accessible and raise the floor of what is possible in a given domain while also partnering with leaders to help expand the use of AI to new tasks that raise the ceiling of what is possible.

About the role

We’re looking for a Program Manager to grow our AI for Science Program. You’ll build and manage partnerships with individual labs from around the world. This program is the primary way that Anthropic’s life sciences efforts work with individual labs that have new and innovative ideas for how Claude can contribute to a growing set of scientific domains.

This is a foundational role where you’ll shape our strategy for deploying Claude for Life Sciences across domains of research including the biomedical sciences, chemistry, and materials science. You’ll work with incredibly interdisciplinary partners from academia as well as early stage companies. Your goal will be to develop relationships and goal directed partnerships that demonstrate or expand the capabilities of Claude in the sciences. You will focus both on individual projects but also building communities of practice that bring together scientists with similar interests or objectives. The right person will combine deep relationships in sciences with an entrepreneurial and experimental drive to build something new at the frontier of AI.

Responsibilities:

• Own and execute Anthropic’s AI for Science API credit strategy, managing partnerships with academic labs, small start-ups, and potentially foundations

• Identify, evaluate, and onboard new partners via our API credit application calls as well as targeted relationship building

• Serve as the primary relationship owner for AI for Science, coordinating with Anthropic’s Applied AI, product, and GTM teams to deliver impact

• Compile regular reports and learnings from the AI for Science ecosystem to help inform research and GTM priorities

• Manage timelines, resource requirements, and regular reporting associated with the AI for Science program

• Work closely with partners to understand their technical and operational needs and translate them into deployment plans

• Comfort with early technical prototyping and testing to help learn alongside and unblock partners

• Set a research agenda for understanding AI’s impact on individual labs across domains

• Identify opportunities to create public goods — open-source tools, datasets, and research — that benefit the broader ecosystem

• Represent Anthropic at global scientific convenings and conferences

• Help shape team processes and culture as we scale our Life Science work

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 7+ years of experience in life sciences research with ample exposure to the intersection of new technologies as a catalyst for accelerating progress

• 3+ years of experience managing external partnerships, grantmaking, or multi-stakeholder initiatives

• Deep relationships and credibility in the life sciences domains: you are familiar with the key players at major universities, research institutes, and tools companies

• Technical fluency to engage credibly on AI concepts, understand LLM capabilities and limitations, and partner effectively with technical teams

• Analytical mindset with experience using data to inform strategy and measure impact

• Experience building communities of practice in which scientists from multiple domains converge on shared exploration and use of new technologies

• An entrepreneurial mindset: you’ve built programs or organizations from scratch, likely at startups or in founding roles

• A genuine drive to maximize impact for underserved communities

• High agency and comfort with ambiguity; you thrive when you’re building the plane while flying it

• Strong prioritization skills and the ability to manage a high volume of partnerships and opportunities

• Willingness to travel for occasional partner visits and conferences

Strong candidates may also have:

• Experience working with philanthropic foundations on science funding

• Background at biotech companies, academic research institutions, funding, and roles at the intersection of scientific research and technology product

• Background in wet lab research with an ability and aptitude for scientific communications

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: $215,000—$300,000 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.

Benefits

• competitive compensation and benefits
• optional equity donation matching
• generous vacation and parental leave
• flexible working hours
• a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues