Performance and Talent Program Manager

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

We are seeking an experienced People Programs Manager to join our Performance & Talent Programs team. This role will own the design and end-to-end execution of Anthropics performance programs performance pulses biannual review cycles promotions and the continuous feedback practices that connect them producing the year-round performance signal that feeds our talent intelligence layer and upholds our performance bar as we scale. This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the Head of Performance & Talent Programs and a great fit for a true builder who has both seen performance management excellence at scale and is excited to roll up their sleeves in a rapidly scaling high-ambiguity environment.

Key responsibilities

• Own end-to-end execution of Anthropics cyclical performance programs (performance pulses promotions biannual review cycles) and the continuous feedback practices between them
• Ensure these programs scale durably and uphold Anthropics performance bar and talent density as the company grows
• Design programs to produce useful performance signal year-round and feed it into the talent intelligence layer to inform succession critical talent identification and deployment decisions
• Partner cross-functionally with People Services on cycle execution People Products on program tooling and People Analytics on connecting performance data to broader people data and insights
• Iterate on program frameworks (calibration rating constructs feedback formats promotion criteria) based on data manager feedback and Anthropics evolving needs
• Lead program redesigns and change management including stakeholder alignment rollout planning and communications
• Develop and deliver enablement that helps managers and People Partners run each cycle confidently and consistently

Minimum qualifications

• Systems thinker who treats performance programs as a signal-generating system caring as much about data quality and downstream usefulness as about cycles landing on time
• Demonstrated experience shaping performance tooling (Workday Lattice CultureAmp or homegrown) and partnering with People Analytics with comfort getting into the data yourself
• Experience building manager enablement that changes behavior and supporting leaders through performance promotion and talent conversations
• Strong program management skills and operational rigor with a track record of running complex multi-month cycles and keeping dozens of stakeholders in sync
• Exceptional communicator particularly in writing who thrives in ambiguity and evolving scope

Preferred qualifications

• 7 years of experience designing running and owning performance management talent review or promotion programs preferably through periods of rapid headcount growth

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelors 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 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 policy for using AI in our application process.