Program Manager, Safeguards Policy, Enforcement, and Threat Intelligence

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 285,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous vacation and parental leave

Equity donation matching

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a seasoned Program Manager to orchestrate Safeguards initiatives across Policy Design, Enforcement, and Threat Intelligence. You will coordinate planning rhythms, align stakeholders, and drive readiness for model launches and external publications.

The role requires handling sensitive topics with discretion, and collaboration with leadership to clear blockers and keep the org moving forward.

Qualifications

• Experience running cross-functional programs in fast-moving technical environments.
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguous work: breaking goals into plans, owners, milestones, and keeping them current.
• Strong written communication, including clear status updates and executive summaries.
• Experience managing review and approval processes with multiple stakeholders (publications, launches, policy releases).
• Judgment about when a process helps and when it's overhead; bias toward lean processes.
• Comfort working on sensitive topics with high confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Own cross-functional program management for Policy Design, Enforcement, and Threat Intel teams; keep workstreams on track and visible to leadership.
• Run the team's operating rhythm: quarterly planning, priority setting, status tracking, decisions record keeping.
• Coordinate policy work with research, product, engineering, legal, and communications to surface dependencies and avoid surprises.
• Drive readiness for policy, enforcement, and threat intelligence tied to model launches and product releases; manage timelines and sign-offs.
• Own the process for external publications from ideation through drafting, review, approvals, and publication.
• Identify risks, blockers, and resourcing gaps; propose paths forward to expedite.
• Build lightweight processes and tools to accelerate the team and retire unnecessary ones.

Skills

Program management in tech env

Cross-functional coordination

Executive communication

Review & approvals processes

Process optimization judgement

Handling sensitive topics

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

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

Anthropic's Safeguards organization builds the policies, evaluations, and detection and enforcement systems that define and hold the limits on how Claude can be used. Within Safeguards, our Policy, Enforcement, and Threat Intelligence teams work as one org: Policy Design defines what is and isn't allowed across harm areas, Enforcement detects and acts on violations, and Threat Intelligence investigates sophisticated misuse and emerging threats.

That work runs across a lot of teams and moves fast. A single decision can touch model training, detection systems, product launches, legal review, and external communications. As the org's program manager, you'll keep all of it moving: tracking the portfolio across all three teams, running the processes that connect their work to each other and to the rest of the company, and making sure the right people are aligned before decisions land.

Your work will include the operating rhythm (planning, priorities, status, and decision tracking), launch and release readiness across policy, enforcement, and threat intelligence workstreams, and the processes that support how we share our work externally, including blog posts, threat reports, and other publications. You'll work closely with the org's leadership to spot risks early, clear blockers, and keep everyone pointed in the same direction.

This role is a good fit for someone who brings structure to ambiguous, fast-moving work without adding overhead, and who can earn the trust of policy experts, researchers, and engineers alike.

Important context for this role: some of the work may involve exposure to explicit content, including material of a sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature. It also may require late nights or weekend work.

Key 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 expedite 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

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience running cross-functional programs in a fast-moving technical environment, with a track record of shipping on time across teams you don't manage
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguous work: breaking big goals into plans, owners, and milestones, and keeping them current as priorities shift
• Strong written communication, including clear status updates, decision records, and summaries for executive audiences
• Experience managing review and approval processes with multiple stakeholders, such as publications, launches, or policy releases
• Judgment about when a process helps and when it's overhead, and a bias toward the lightest process that works
• Comfort working on sensitive topics and holding high standards for confidentiality

Preferred Qualifications

• Program management experience in trust & safety, product policy, enforcement operations, threat intelligence, or AI safety
• Familiarity with how AI models are developed and launched, and how policy, enforcement, and threat intelligence work plug into that cycle
• Experience coordinating external publications, research releases, or public communications
• Experience using AI tools, including agentic tools, to automate tracking, reporting, and other recurring program work

Annual Salary

$285,000—$330,000 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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