Program Manager, Safeguards Policy, Enforcement, and Threat Intelligence

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

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 *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

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