Senior Manager, IT SOX

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Senior Manager, IT SOX to join its Internal Audit team. You will be a hands-on technical contributor and lead the IT SOX program across IT general and application controls, partnering with Engineering, Security, and Finance to mature the control environment in an AI-first company.

The role demands comfort with ambiguity, the ability to operate in a fast-paced setting, and a track record of delivering audit-ready evidence, scalable test approaches, and collaboration with

Qualifications

• Hands-on IT audit or IT SOX compliance experience in a fast-paced technology environment.
• Deep working knowledge of ITGCs, ITACs, and IT risk assessment methodologies.
• Experience auditing highly automated DevOps environments (CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, automated deployments).
• Experience designing, testing, and documenting controls across access management, change management, and computer operations.
• Demonstrated comfort with ambiguity and the ability to operate effectively in a high-pace, rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to effectively guide and direct the work of internal team members and/or co-sourced partners.
• Ability to work independently on complex, ambiguous workstreams while communicating proactively with senior stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Advise on design of control environment for AI-first company, including controls over highly automated DevOps pipelines and emerging agentic identity models
• Partner with Engineering, Security, IT, and DevOps teams to assess the design and implementation of scalable and sustainable controls
• Assess new system implementations and changes
• Identify automation and tooling opportunities to improve control efficiency and monitoring, and contribute to the development of continuous monitoring capabilities
• Assist in scoping and planning for annual SOX IT assessments
• Execute IT SOX testing across IT General Controls and IT Application Controls, including access management, change management, and computer operations
• Perform system and process risk assessments to identify control gaps and recommend remediation
• Own control documentation and ensure audit-ready evidence is current and complete
• Evaluate IT automated controls and support the shift from manual to automated control reliance
• Scale the IT SOX program as the company grows — rationalizing scope, standardizing testing approaches, and building repeatable processes that keep pace with new systems and entities
• Guide and direct the day-to-day work of internal team members and co-sourced partners: setting priorities, reviewing workpapers, and ensuring quality and consistency across the testing program
• Build strong working relationships with process and control owners across the organization
• Translate technical control requirements for non-technical stakeholders and vice versa
• Support SEC cybersecurity disclosure requirements and related risk monitoring efforts
• Coordinate with external auditors on IT SOX matters, including evidence requests, walkthroughs, and testing schedules
• Track and assist with remediation of audit findings; communicate status to the Head of IT SOX and relevant stakeholders

Skills

ITSOX experience

ITGCs

ITACs

DevOps audits

Access management

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

We are looking for a Senior Manager, IT SOX to join the Internal Audit team at Anthropic. In this role, you will be a hands-on technical contributor and key executor of our IT SOX compliance program, with deep focus on our IT General Controls, IT Application Controls, and system risk assessments.

This role reports to the Head of IT SOX and is well-suited for someone who is comfortable with ambiguity, thrives in a high-pace environment, and enjoys solving problems that don't yet have industry-standard answers. This is a high-impact opportunity to collaborate with first and second lines of defense to help establish a control environment suitable for an AI-first company! You will act as a trusted advisor to Engineering, GRC, Security and Finance teams on the technology controls adapted to a fast growing and rapidly changing organization.

You'll bring technical depth, a bias toward automation, and the ability to partner effectively with both technical teams and external auditors as the organization scales through pre-IPO readiness.

Key responsibilities

• Advise on the design of a control environment fit for an AI-first company, including controls over highly automated DevOps pipelines and emerging agentic identity models
• Partner with Engineering, Security, IT, and DevOps teams to assess the design and implementation of scalable and sustainable controls
• Assess new system implementations and changes
• Identify automation and tooling opportunities to improve control efficiency and monitoring, and contribute to the development of continuous monitoring capabilities
• Assist in scoping and planning for annual SOX IT assessments
• Execute IT SOX testing across IT General Controls and IT Application Controls, including access management, change management, and computer operations
• Perform system and process risk assessments to identify control gaps and recommend remediation
• Own control documentation and ensure audit-ready evidence is current and complete
• Evaluate IT automated controls and support the shift from manual to automated control reliance
• Scale the IT SOX program as the company grows — rationalizing scope, standardizing testing approaches, and building repeatable processes that keep pace with new systems and entities
• Guide and direct the day-to-day work of internal team members and co-sourced partners: setting priorities, reviewing workpapers, and ensuring quality and consistency across the testing program
• Build strong working relationships with process and control owners across the organization
• Translate technical control requirements for non-technical stakeholders and vice versa
• Support SEC cybersecurity disclosure requirements and related risk monitoring efforts
• Coordinate with external auditors on IT SOX matters, including evidence requests, walkthroughs, and testing schedules
• Track and assist with remediation of audit findings; communicate status to the Head of IT SOX and relevant stakeholders

Minimum qualifications

• Hands-on IT audit or IT SOX compliance experience, ideally in a fast-paced technology environment
• Deep working knowledge of ITGCs, ITACs, and IT risk assessment methodologies
• Experience auditing highly automated DevOps environments (CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, automated deployments) and adapting traditional change-management and access controls to them
• Experience designing, testing, and documenting controls across access management, change management, and computer operations
• Demonstrated comfort with ambiguity and the ability to operate effectively in a high-pace, rapidly changing environment
• Ability to effectively guide and direct the work of internal team members and/or co-sourced partners
• Ability to work independently on complex, ambiguous workstreams while communicating proactively with senior stakeholders<