Product Policy Manager, Product Risk

Anthropic; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Product Policy Manager for Product Risk to shape safety assessments for new features. You will work with product, engineering, legal, and policy teams to anticipate potential misuses and craft policies that balance innovation with responsibility.

You will lead risk evaluation frameworks and safety reviews, ensuring rigorous mitigation strategies are in place for upcoming launches and ongoing risk management across products.

Qualifications

• Strong technical background and ability to explain highly technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Understand safety policies and safety considerations across a wide range of product surfaces.
• Able to prioritize where and how to focus resources for safety mitigations in a high-volume launch process.
• Experience conducting risk evaluations of novel products in fast-moving organizations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain risk assessment frameworks to identify and evaluate potential safety risks for new product features.
• Conduct comprehensive product safety reviews covering technical and non-technical harms to inform launches and mitigations.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, legal, policy and other teams to leverage policy, enforcement, and engineering expertise.
• Analyze potential misuse and unintended consequences of new model capabilities and translate into mitigations.
• Leverage risk assessments to inform product safety recommendations across teams.
• Design and run bespoke evaluations for products requiring tailored assessments.
• Craft policy recommendations balancing innovation with responsible AI deployment.
• Stay current on industry trends and emerging risks in AI development to address potential issues.
• Contribute to regular reports on product policy risks and mitigations for senior leadership.

Skills

Technical background

Explain complex concepts

Safety policies

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 Team

As the Product Policy Manager for Product Risk, you will play a crucial role in setting and executing the Safeguards team’s approach to assessing product launches for safety risks and working with XFN stakeholders to drive appropriate safety mitigations. You'll work closely with a suite of cross-functional teams, within and outside of Safeguards, including, product, legal, public policy, and engineering teams to understand upcoming features, anticipate potential misuses or unintended consequences, and craft policies that balance innovation with responsibility. Your work will be essential in maintaining Anthropic's commitment to safe and beneficial AI as we continue to expand our product capabilities.

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Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain risk assessment frameworks to identify and evaluate potential safety risks associated with new product features and functionality
• Conduct and drive comprehensive product safety reviews, covering technical and non technical harms, to inform product launch and safety mitigation strategies
• Collaborate closely with a variety of stakeholders including product and engineering teams and the broader Safeguards team to leverage deep policy, enforcement, and engineering expertise
• Analyze the potential for misuse, unintended consequences, and harmful outputs of new model and product capabilities and translate this analysis into mitigations delivery.
• Leverage SME risk assessments to inform overall product safety recommendations
• Design and run bespoke evaluations for products that require tailored assessment and contribute to our product safety evaluations strategy.
• Craft policy recommendations that strike a balance between enabling innovation and ensuring responsible AI deployment
• Stay current on industry trends and emerging risks in AI development to proactively address potential issues
• Contribute to regular reports on product policy risks and mitigations for senior leadership

Minimum Requirements

• Have a strong technical background while also feeling equally comfortable explaining highly technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Understand safety policies and safety considerations associated with a wide range of product surfaces
• Are adept at prioritizing where, and how, to focus resources for safety mitigations in a high volume launch process
• Have conducted risk evaluations of novel products in fast moving organizations
• Demonstrated expertise collaborating w