Product Manager, Research (Code)

Anthropic; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 305,000 - 385,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic Limited is seeking a Product Manager for the Research team to own the ideation and deployment of pioneering AI models and products. You will collaborate with research to productize applied research and identify high-potential use cases rooted in customer needs.

This role thrives in ambiguity, uncovering non-obvious opportunities for nascent AI technologies. You will bridge research and ambitious experimentation, creating and growing new product categories enabled by AI, while leading

Qualifications

• Deep passion and curiosity for AI and LLMs; regular AI use.
• First-principles thinker navigating ambiguity and adapting across domains.
• Strong technical background with AI/ML concepts; data-driven; Python & SQL proficient.
• Strong user empathy; ability to translate vague feedback into priorities.
• Track record of launching ambitious products with distribution or commercial success.
• Intellectual curiosity with humility; comfortable learning independently.
• Creative thinker about risks/benefits of new technologies; beyond checklists.
• Hackers spirit and love solving puzzles.

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 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.

Skills

AI/ML concepts

Python

SQL

First-principles thinking

Ambiguity navigation

User empathy

Product launches

Strategic thinking

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

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.

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

$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.

Your safety matters to us.

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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.

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