SOX-Focused Technical Program Manager with AI Automation

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 290,000 - 365,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation time

Parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Technical Program Manager to own the SOX program end-to-end, collaborating with engineering, security, GRC, Finance, and Internal Audit to design IT controls, automate evidence collection, and drive remediation. You will lead cross-functional SOX initiatives at our San Francisco office, ensuring controls are in place from the start and scale with growth.

The role requires strong experience in SOX, ITGCs, and working with external auditors, plus a track record of delivering

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in technical program management, IT audit, or technology compliance, with a focus on SOX and IT general controls.
• Experience running or supporting a SOX program at a public or pre-IPO company.
• Experience using automation or AI tools to make compliance work faster and more reliable.
• Deep knowledge of IT general controls and IT application controls, including access management, change management, and application controls.
• Experience working with external auditors.
• Understand cloud infrastructure and engineering workflows (code review, CI/CD, cloud access) to collaborate on control design with engineers.
• Ability to explain technical risks and control gaps clearly to executives and other non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable driving cross-functional outcomes across engineering, finance, and audit teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the technology side of the SOX program end-to-end, from planning and control design through evidence, testing, remediation, and year-end reporting
• Work with engineering teams to design and roll out IT general controls and IT application controls
• Work with engineering teams to build Claude-based workflows, tools, and dashboards to automate evidence collection, control testing, and monitoring that warns engineering teams about compliance issues before an audit finds them
• Lead large SOX projects, such as bringing new systems into scope, with clear success criteria, dependencies, and delivery dates
• Turn control requirements into concrete engineering work with clear scope, owners, and deadlines, and a design that fits how our teams already build and ship
• Build processes to evaluate new products, systems, and major engineering changes for SOX impact before they ship, so the right controls are in place from the start
• Build strong working relationships with engineering control owners, help them understand what their controls require, and support them in producing evidence for auditor requests
• Investigate control failures down to root cause, and drive engineering teams to fix them in time for the fix to be tested
• Help keep an up-to-date list of the systems, apps, and infrastructure in SOX scope, with an owner named for each control
• Track system migrations and scope changes, and make sure controls are updated as systems move
• Build metrics and dashboards on control health, open findings, and remediation progress
• Give regular updates on program status, risks, and remediation to technical leadership
• Keep improving the program: simplify control processes, remove manual steps, and raise the share of controls that run cleanly

Skills

SOX and ITGC

IT audit

Automation/AI for compliance

Cloud and CI/CD understanding

Communication with executives

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Technical Program Manager to own the SOX program end-to-end, collaborating with engineering, security, GRC, Finance, and Internal Audit to design IT controls, automate evidence collection, and drive remediation. You will lead cross-functional SOX initiatives at our San Francisco office, ensuring controls are in place from the start and scale with growth.

The role requires strong experience in SOX, ITGCs, and working with external auditors, plus a track record of delivering