[Pipeline] Product Manager, Research (Code)

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 305,000 - 385,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Product Manager for the Research team to own ideation and deployment of new models and products as we advance frontier, safe AI technology. You will work closely with our research teams to help productize credible applied research and identify high-potential use cases grounded in customer needs.

We seek experienced founders and PMs who can bridge research and ambitious product experimentation, with the ability to create and grow entirely new product categories enabled by

Qualifications

• Deep passion and curiosity for AI and LLMs.
• First-principles thinking to navigate ambiguity.
• Strong technical background with AI/ML concepts and data-driven mindset.
• Strong user empathy and ability to synthesize feedback.
• Track record launching ambitious products with distribution or commercial success.
• Intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn independently.
• Creative thinking about risks/benefits of new technologies.
• Creative hacker spirit and puzzle solving mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution of frontier AI technologies.
• Partner with research to define, improve, and ship model capabilities.
• Identify nascent research that could become transformative products.
• Synthesize user insights into actionable requirements.
• Understand the AI landscape and our market position.
• Collaborate with research, product engineering, and platform engineering teams.

Skills

AI/LLMs

Python

SQL

User empathy

Product strategy

Ambiguity handling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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

As a Product Manager for the Research team at Anthropic, you will own the ideation and deployment of new models and products as we advance frontier, safe AI technology. You will work closely with our research teams to help productize credible applied research and identify high-potential use cases grounded in customer needs. We are looking for someone passionate about developing safe and beneficial artificial intelligence technologies. You thrive in ambiguous environments and can uncover latent, non-obvious use cases for nascent technologies, bringing these insights back to research. Your curiosity about user needs enables you to connect advanced technology to products that deliver real-world value.

We seek experienced founders and product managers who can bridge research and ambitious product experimentation, with the ability to create and grow entirely new product categories enabled by AI.

Responsibilities

• Lead vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution of frontier technologies that leverage the latest AI capabilities to solve real-world problems
• Partner with research to define, improve, and ship model capabilities within a research area
• Identify nascent research that could become transformative products
• Synthesize user insights into actionable requirements and evaluations
• Understand the AI landscape and ecosystem, ensuring we have an objective view of market capabilities and our position
• Work with and influence a diverse set of stakeholders, including research, product engineering, and platform engineering teams

Minimum Qualifications

• Have a deep passion and curiosity for AI and LLMs. Use AI regularly.
• Are a first-principles thinker with the ability to navigate and execute amidst ambiguity, flexing into different domains based on the business problem at hand and finding simple, easy-to-understand solutions
• Possess a deep technical background with a strong grasp of AI/ML concepts and are willing to go deep on technical solutions; have a data-driven mindset with working proficiency in Python and SQL
• Have strong user empathy and the ability to synthesize vague or contradictory feedback into actionable priorities
• Have a track record of launching ambitious products that have achieved distribution or commercial success
• Have intellectual curiosity without ego-comfortable asking questions and learning independently
• Think creatively about the risks and benefits of new technologies, moving beyond past checklists and playbooks
• Have a creative, hacker spirit and love solving puzzles

Preferred Qualifications

• Have 5+ years in product management, with experience launching new products and scaling existing ones (founder background is a plus)

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

$305,000 - $385,000 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.

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.

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.

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