Technical Program Manager, API Platform

Anthropic; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 365,000 - 435,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Anthropic is hiring a Technical Program Manager in Seattle to drive scaling and efficiency of their API stack. The ideal candidate will connect multiple teams, establish clear decision ownership, and ensure successful program execution.

Applicants should have over 7 years of experience in technical program management with strong communication skills. This role includes a competitive salary and hybrid work policy, requiring a presence in the office 25% of the time.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical program management experience with a track record of complex programs.
• Experience with API platforms and core infrastructure.
• Proven ability to drive efficiency programs for high-volume production systems.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage parallel workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Drive scaling and core efficiency programs for the API stack.
• Run multiple large programs across infrastructure and API layer.
• Act as a connector between API and infrastructure teams.
• Establish decision-making clarity and manage cross-org dependencies.
• Surface risks and trade-offs to engineering leadership.

Skills

Technical program management

API platforms

Distributed systems

Project coordination

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

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 API is the foundation that customers, developers, and our own products build on, and it is scaling fast. We're hiring a Technical Program Manager to drive the scaling and core efficiency programs for the API stack, working at the intersection of the API and the infrastructure it runs on (compute, databases, networking, and inference).

Today this work spans many teams and many simultaneous programs, with no single person focused on cohesion across them. You'll be the center: the person who connects isolated workstreams into one coherent roadmap, makes cross‑org dependencies visible before they become blockers, and creates clarity on who owns which decisions. Success looks like an API stack that scales efficiently and predictably, with programs that land because someone is accountable for the whole picture.

Responsibilities

• Drive scaling and core efficiency programs for the API stack from architectural direction through sequenced, deliverable execution
• Run multiple large programs simultaneously across infrastructure, networking, and the API layer
• Act as the connective tissue between API, infrastructure, database, networking, and inference teams, owning cross‑org dependencies end to end
• Establish decision‑making clarity: who owns what, where trade‑offs get made, and how isolated streams roll up into one program view
• Surface risks, progress, and trade‑offs to engineering leadership with the right altitude and cadence

Qualifications

• Have 7+ years of technical program management experience, with a track record of successfully delivering complex, cross‑functional programs
• Have experience with API platforms, distributed systems, and core infrastructure programs and can engage meaningfully with the engineers who design and operate them
• Have driven scaling, performance, or efficiency programs for high‑volume production systems, including the tradeoffs across performance, reliability, and cost
• Have coordinated programs spanning many partner organizations, managing cross‑team dependencies, commitments, and escalations at the working level
• Are highly organized and can manage multiple parallel workstreams effectively across distributed teams
• Thrive in unstructured environments with a knack for bringing order to chaos and creating clarity in ambiguous situations, including where decision ownership is unclear
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority
• Are passionate about Anthropic's mission and interested in the challenges of operating AI infrastructure safely and reliably

Compensation

Annual Salary: $365,000—$435,000 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.

Benefits

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.