Technical Program Manager, Launches

About Anthropic

Anthropics 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 a Technical Program Manager for Product youll drive the programs that bring Anthropics AI capabilities to the world. Youll work closely with research teams to understand new model capabilities then orchestrate across engineering product infrastructure and go-to-market teams to ensure we launch reliably and at pace. This role is essential in orchestrating the cross-functional effort required to launch successfully as Anthropic continues to scale.

This role offers unique challenges in coordinating high-stakes technical programs while maintaining the quality and reliability our customers expect. This position requires deep technical fluency the ability to earn trust with researchers and engineers and a talent for driving alignment across teams with different priorities and working styles.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end program management for model and product launches coordinating between research engineering product infrastructure and partnership teams
• Drive cross-functional alignment and decision-making across workstreams ensuring teams are unblocked and launches stay on track
• Partner closely with Research PMs and engineering leads to sequence work manage dependencies and navigate technical tradeoffs
• Track and communicate program status risks and dependencies to leadership and stakeholders
• Build strong relationships with technical stakeholders earning trust through deep engagement with the details
• Coordinate with research teams to understand upcoming model capabilities and prepare launch plans accordingly
• Navigate tradeoffs between speed quality and scope helping teams make informed decisions under pressure
• Develop and improve launch processes playbooks and operational frameworks that scale with our growing complexity
• Create and maintain documentation of launch processes decision logs and cross-functional dependencies

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
• Possess deep technical knowledge that allows you to engage meaningfully with ML researchers and engineers
• Have experience managing programs with significant external dependencies and multiple stakeholder groups
• Excel at translating between technical teams and stakeholders making complex tradeoffs understandable
• Can thrive in ambiguous situations bringing structure to complex technical challenges
• Have strong organizational skills and can manage multiple parallel workstreams effectively
• Are comfortable operating at a fast pace where priorities shift and new challenges emerge quickly
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence without authority
• Build trust quickly and maintain strong relationships even under pressure
• Are passionate about Anthropics mission and interested in the challenges of bringing frontier AI capabilities to users safely

Deadline to apply: None applications will be received on a rolling basis.

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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 arent 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.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. 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 youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were 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.

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How were 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. Were 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. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policyfor using AI in our application process