Tech Lead Manager, Developer Platform Product Data Scientist

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 285,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation & parental leave

Flexible working hours

SF office space

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a senior data science leader embedded in the Developer Platform product team to drive data-informed decisions at scale. You will guide product direction for Claude-related APIs, agent orchestration, tool integrations, and knowledge management.

You’ll mentor a small team of Product Data Scientists and help raise the bar for data-driven decisions. You’ll shape the data science agenda, establish success metrics, and lead high-stakes analyses that inform leadership and

Qualifications

• Extensive data science leadership experience at scale.
• 3+ years managing data science teams.
• Trusted partner to senior product and business leaders on API or developer-facing products.
• Strong product sense and business judgment for developer/B2B products.
• Deep expertise in experimental design, causal inference, and statistical modeling.
• Fluency in Python and SQL to stay hands-on and guide others.

Responsibilities

• Act as strategic partner to Developer Platform product leads and shape strategy.
• Set data science agenda for Developer Platform and prioritize impact.
• Manage and develop a small team of Product Data Scientists.
• Frame important questions facing the platform and provide clear recommendations.
• Define metrics and measurement frameworks for platform success.
• Lead experimentation and causal inference across Developer Platform.

Skills

Data science leadership

Team management

Product sense

Experimental design

Causal inference

Statistical modeling

Python

SQL

Communication

Ambiguity navigation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Python

SQL

APIs

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

As part of our growing Data Science and Analytics team, you will play an instrumental role in our company’s mission of building safe and beneficial artificial intelligence by driving data-informed decision making across our organization. You bring experience from high-bar teams and are eager to help shape the norms and best practices of a growing data science team as Anthropic continues to scale. In this unique company, technology, and moment in history, your work will be critical to informing our strategy as we deploy safe, frontier AI at scale to the world.

You’ll be the senior data science leader embedded in our Developer Platform product team and a strategic thought partner to its product leads. You’ll help set product direction for the Claude Developer Platform, spanning our core API, agent orchestration, tool and MCP integrations, and knowledge management capabilities. You’ll bring a point of view on where to invest, how to grow our platform business, and how to deliver more value for the developers and enterprises building on Claude. As a tech lead manager, you’ll also manage a small team of Product Data Scientists, setting their agenda and raising the bar for how data shapes product decisions.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic thought partner to Developer Platform product leads, helping shape product strategy, roadmap priorities, and the major bets the team makes
• Set the data science agenda for Developer Platform, deciding where the Product Data Science team can have the most impact and what it should deprioritize
• Manage and develop a small team of Product Data Scientists, coaching them to move from answering questions to shaping decisions
• Frame the most important and ambiguous questions facing the platform, from how developers and enterprises adopt it to how AI agents are being built and deployed at scale, size the opportunities, and make clear recommendations, including when they challenge the current direction
• Define how Developer Platform measures success, establishing the core metrics and measurement frameworks that align teams and leadership on what matters
• Set the standard for experimentation and causal inference across Developer Platform, including where API and B2B products make clean experiments hard, and personally lead the highest-stakes analyses
• Turn complex analyses into clear narratives and recommendations that drive decisions with senior leadership and cross-functional partners, including go-to-market teams
• Establish foundational data practices and shape the analytics infrastructure Developer Platform needs to support rapid iteration and decision-making as our products grow

You May Be a Good Fit If You

• Have extensive experience in data science, including leading analytics for a product area at significant scale
• Have 3+ years managing data science teams, including setting team direction and developing senior data scientists
• Have been a trusted partner to senior product and business leaders on API or developer-facing products, with clear examples of changing a roadmap or high-stakes decision
• Bring strong product sense and business judgment for developer and B2B products, including the ability to frame the right question and take a position with incomplete information
• Have deep expertise in experimental design, causal inference, and statistical modeling at high scale, with enough fluency in Python and SQL to stay hands‑on and guide others’ technical work
• Communicate clearly in writing and in presentations, including to executive audiences
• Have a bias for action and thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where you must create clarity and drive progress
• Care about the company’s mission of building helpful, honest, and harmless AI
• Strong candidates may also have:
• Experience with AI/ML products, large language models, or developer tools in the AI/ML ecosystem

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

Annual Salary

$285,000—$380,000 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.

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.

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