Program Manager, Safeguards Policy, Enforcement, and Threat Intelligence

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

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Program Manager for Safeguards Policy, Enforcement, and Threat Intelligence in San Francisco. You will coordinate across policy design, enforcement, and threat intel, ensuring alignment with leadership and timely delivery across multiple teams.

The role involves publishing risk assessments, coordinating launches, and maintaining light processes to accelerate work. Ideal candidates will bring structure to ambiguous, fast-moving work, with strong written communication and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and/or experience.
• Experience managing programs in policy, trust & safety, or AI safety domains.
• Ability to coordinate across research, product, engineering, legal, and communications.
• Familiarity with AI model development lifecycles and policy integration.

Responsibilities

• Own cross-functional program management across Policy Design, Enforcement, and Threat Intel teams.
• Run operating rhythm: planning, priority setting, status tracking, decisions records.
• Coordinate policy work with partner teams to surface dependencies early.
• Drive readiness for policy and threat intel work tied to product launches.
• Manage external publications from idea through drafting and publication.
• Identify risks and blockers and elevate with proposed paths forward.
• Build lightweight processes and tools to speed the team.
• Experience shipping on time across non-manager teams.

Skills

Program management

Trust & safety

Policy enforcement

Threat intelligence

Cross-functional coordination

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Program Manager, Safeguards Policy, Enforcement, and Threat Intelligence

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 elevate 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
• 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
• 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.
• $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.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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.