Program Manager, Safeguards & Policy

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a program manager to coordinate the Safeguards org’s Policy Design, Enforcement, and Threat Intelligence workstreams. You will track the portfolio across teams, connect work to the rest of the company, and ensure alignment before decisions land.

You’ll manage planning, priorities, status, and external publications, including blog posts and threat reports, and work closely with leadership to spot risks, clear blockers, and keep everyone aligned.

Qualifications

• Experience running cross-functional programs in a fast-moving tech environment.
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguous work: breaking big goals into plans, owners, and milestones.
• Strong written communication, including status updates and executive summaries.
• Experience managing review/approval processes for publications, launches, or policy releases.
• Judgment about when a process helps and when it's overhead.
• Comfort working on sensitive topics and maintaining confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Own cross-functional program management for the Policy Design, Enforcement and Threat Intel teams, keeping workstreams across harm areas on track and visible to leadership.
• Run the team's operating rhythm: quarterly planning, priority setting, status tracking, and a clear record of decisions, who made them, and why.
• Coordinate policy work with partner teams across research, product, engineering, legal, and communications, so dependencies are surfaced early and nothing lands on a partner as a surprise.
• Drive readiness for policy, enforcement, and threat intelligence work tied to model launches and product releases, including timelines, reviews, and sign-offs.
• Own the process for the org's external publications, including blog posts and threat reports, from idea through drafting, review, approvals, and publication.
• Identify risks, blockers, and resourcing gaps across the portfolio, and escalate them with a proposed path forward.
• Build lightweight processes and tools that make the team faster, and retire the ones that stop earning their keep.

Skills

Cross-functional PM

Structured planning

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Decision records

Policy domain knowledge

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a program manager to coordinate the Safeguards org’s Policy Design, Enforcement, and Threat Intelligence workstreams. You will track the portfolio across teams, connect work to the rest of the company, and ensure alignment before decisions land.

You’ll manage planning, priorities, status, and external publications, including blog posts and threat reports, and work closely with leadership to spot risks, clear blockers, and keep everyone aligned.