Technical Program Manager, Life Sciences

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 290,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is hiring a Technical Program Manager to own the Life Sciences Verification Program and scale access to Claude for verified life-sciences work with safety in mind.

You will coordinate across safeguards, platform, and product teams, drive cross-org plans, manage dependencies, and ensure clear owners, dates, and progress. The role requires several years of TPM experience and strong cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience in technical program management leading complex cross-functional programs.
• Experience coordinating across multiple engineering teams and organizations including safeguards, platform, and product partners.
• Ability to engage meaningfully with engineers and drive clarity in ambiguous environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence without authority.

Responsibilities

• Own the program for expanding access to Anthropic's life sciences verification programs, including scoping, sequencing, dependencies, and tradeoffs across teams.
• Scope and drive cross-org engineering work for each expansion, from plan changes to new platforms.
• Partner with product management to turn goals into a sequenced plan with clear owners and dates.
• Drive data access, retention, and review requirements across safeguards, access, and provisioning.
• Drive user experience scoping across Claude product surfaces where the program is available.
• Remove blockers to enable eligible organizations to access life sciences capabilities.
• Establish operating rhythm with a unified view of workstreams, owners, dependencies, risks, and status.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Program management

Stakeholder management

Written communication

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Technical Program Manager, Life Sciences

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

Scientists use Claude across the life sciences, from drug discovery and research biology to clinical development and manufacturing. To support that work, Anthropic introduced the Life Sciences Verification Program (LSVP), which gives verified life science professionals access to Claude with a refined set of safeguards that is more permissive for biology-related work. The program is in beta.

We're hiring a Technical Program Manager to own the program of work that expands that access and helps scale it with safety in mind.

Each expansion depends on many teams at once and no single team owns the path end to end. You'll become the single owner of that program, the person who knows what each expansion requires, where every workstream stands, what it is waiting on, and who needs to decide. This is a cross-org execution role, not a research role, and it does not require a life sciences background. LSVP is the starting point, and the scope will grow alongside Anthropic's broader work in the life sciences. Over time, more of the life sciences community can get verified access, and each new expansion takes less bespoke effort than the last.

Responsibilities

• Own the program for expanding access to Anthropic's life sciences verification programs: scoping, sequencing, dependencies, and tradeoffs across safeguards, platform, and product engineering teams
• Scope and drive the cross-org engineering work that each expansion requires, from new plan and account types to new platforms
• Partner with the product manager to turn program goals into a sequenced plan with clear owners and dates
• Drive clarity on data access, retention, and review requirements, and on the changes they require across safeguards, access, and provisioning
• Drive user experience scoping across the Claude product surfaces where the program is available
• Find and remove the technical blockers that keep eligible organizations from accessing life sciences capabilities
• Establish the operating rhythm: a single view of workstreams, owners, dependencies, risks, and status, with planning, escalation paths, and launch coordination across orgs
• Convert recurring efforts into documented, repeatable processes so that each new expansion requires less bespoke coordination

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 coordinating across multiple engineering teams and organizations simultaneously, including safeguards, platform, and product partners
• Can engage meaningfully with the engineers doing the work, from platform and access systems to product surfaces
• 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
• Have worked on cloud or platform programs (preferred but not required)
• Do not need a life sciences background. This is not a research role, and no life sciences experience is required
• Are passionate about Anthropic's mission and interested in the challenges of bringing AI capabilities to the life sciences community safely and reliably

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.

$290,000 - $365,000 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.

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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!

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