Technical Program Manager, Databases San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 365,000 - 435,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space collaboration

Job summary

Anthropic, based in San Francisco, seeks a Technical Program Manager to lead the development and execution of database infrastructure strategies. This role involves managing external vendor relationships, driving the execution of complex programs, and coordinating a wide range of stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will have several years of technical program management experience, particularly in database or core infrastructure projects, and excellent organizational and communication skills.

The compensation for this role ranges from $365,000 to $435,000 annually, reflecting Anthropic's commitment to competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience in technical program management.
• Experience with database, storage, or core infrastructure programs.
• Managed external vendor or cloud provider relationships.
• Experience with cross-region, multi-cloud, or hybrid cloud infrastructure (preferred).
• Highly organized and capable of managing multiple parallel workstreams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap and execution across all three strategy pillars.
• Coordinate with database vendors, hyperscalers, and internal teams.
• Manage external vendor and hyperscaler relationships.
• Drive dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs for critical infrastructure.
• Create program documentation including roadmaps and status reports.
• Facilitate technical decision-making among stakeholders.

Skills

Technical program management

Database and core infrastructure experience

Vendor relationship management

Cross-region and multi-cloud experience

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

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 databases underpin every service the company runs: Claude, our APIs, and the internal systems behind them. We're hiring a Technical Program Manager to drive the strategy and execution that takes this infrastructure to the next level of availability and scale. The mandate centers on three interlocking strategies:

• Cross-region: how our databases achieve resilience and locality across geographic regions
• Multi-cloud: how we run and operate databases across multiple hyperscalers
• Private, public, and hybrid cloud: how our database footprint spans owned, cloud, and mixed environments

Success in this role is a highly available, 24x7x365 database infrastructure that every Anthropic service can depend on, across regions, clouds, and deployment models.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap and execution across all three strategy pillars, turning architectural direction into sequenced, deliverable programs
• Coordinate across an unusually broad set of partners: database vendors, hyperscalers, internal platform teams, and infrastructure teams
• Manage external vendor and hyperscaler relationships at the working level: commitments, escalations, and joint roadmaps
• Drive the dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs that come with operating databases as critical infrastructure for every service at Anthropic
• Create program documentation including roadmaps, status reports, risk assessments, and communication plans
• Facilitate technical decision-making by bringing together stakeholders, driving consensus, and ensuring timely resolution of blocking issues

You may be a good fit if you

• Have several years of experience in technical program management, with a track record of successfully delivering complex, cross‑functional programs
• Have experience with database, storage, or core infrastructure programs and can engage meaningfully with the engineers who design and operate them
• Have managed external vendor or cloud provider relationships at the working level, including commitments, escalations, and joint roadmaps
• Have experience with cross‑region, multi‑cloud, or hybrid cloud infrastructure (preferred but not required)
• 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
• 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

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

$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

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.