Program Manager, Accounting Operations & Strategy

Anthropic Limited; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Program Manager to join our Accounting organization and help it run as one global team. This hands-on role oversees the annual goals cycle, leadership cadence, and org-wide events, coordinating with Accounting, People, and hub leads.

You will blend chief of staff, program management, and culture-building duties to connect a distributed workforce and drive critical initiatives across time zones. Strong writing and leadership skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in program management, operations, chief of staff, or strategy roles.
• Experience inside a finance or accounting org is a plus, but not required.
• Track record of running recurring programs end to end and getting people to follow through.
• Good judgment about what matters and what doesn't.
• Clear, direct writing for senior leaders.
• Experience supporting distributed or global teams.
• You’re organized, but know when a process should be simplified.

Responsibilities

• Run the annual goal setting process and the reporting that tracks progress against those goals.
• Review how the org operates and fix inefficiencies in meetings, handoffs and planning cycles.
• Maintain a single org-wide planning calendar with milestones, press points and events.
• Build org health metrics and report on attrition, engagement, hiring, training and surveys.
• Run the extended leadership team (XLT) program and related agendas.
• Plan the annual offsite and quarterly all-hands, and write internal updates.
• Coordinate projects across the org that support employee experience programs.
• Roll out training and development programs for Accounting.
• Review survey results and build action plans, reporting progress.

Skills

Program management

Operations

Chief of staff

Strategy

Distributed teams

Global teams

Written communication

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 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 seeking a Program Manager to join our Accounting organization and help it run as one global team. Accounting is scaling at an unprecedented pace across multiple hubs, and the goals, rhythms, programs, and people that make up the team need to stay connected as we grow. In this role, you will own that connective tissue: the annual goal-setting cycle, the leadership team’s operating cadence, org-wide events and internal communications, and the programs that make a distributed team feel like one.

You will partner with Accounting leadership, the People team, Finance Systems, and hub leads. This is a hands‑on role with a lot of range: part chief of staff, part program manager, part culture builder.

Responsibilities

Goals and operating rhythm

• Run the annual goal setting process and the reporting that tracks progress against those goals.
• Look at how the org actually operates (meetings, handoffs, planning cycles, decision making) and fix what isn't working.
• Maintain one org-wide planning calendar that shows close, audit, and team milestones alongside company-wide and team events, so leaders can see the pressure points and plan around them.
• Build and maintain a simple set of org health metrics (attrition, engagement scores, hiring pipeline, training completion, survey trends) and report on them regularly.

Leadership and org-wide events

• Run our extended leadership team (XLT) program, including agendas, meetings, follow-ups, and action items.
• Own planning and agenda for the annual offsite and run the quarterly team all-hands.
• Write the internal updates: a regular team newsletter, plus talking points when leadership needs to explain a change to the whole org.

People and culture

• Coordinate projects across the org that support employee experience programs.
• Partner with the People team to roll out training and development programs for Accounting.
• Review team survey results, identify the themes, and build action plans to address the feedback. Follow through and report back to the team.
• Run hub programs, including visit and rotation programs, local hub events, and meeting norms that work across time zones, so we feel like one global team.
• Run recognition and team rituals: wins, milestones, anniversaries, and peer recognition, especially across hubs.

Team operations

• Support contractor management, including onboarding, tracking, and coordination with the right partners.
• Keep the team's knowledge base current: wiki, org charts, role descriptions, and key process docs.
• Keep the team calendar accurate so everyone knows what's coming.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years in program management, operations, chief of staff, or strategy roles. Experience inside a finance or accounting org is a plus, but not required.
• A track record of running recurring programs end to end and getting people to follow through without formal authority.
• Good judgment about what matters and what doesn't. You can handle a lot of moving pieces without dropping them.
• Clear, direct writing. You can brief a senior leader in a few sentences.
• Comfort with confidential information and sensitive people topics.
• Experience supporting distributed or global teams.
• You're organized, but you also know when a process is getting in the way and should be simplified.

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

$230,000—$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.

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