Product Manager, Safeguards (Cyber)

Location: San Francisco, CA, United States. Hybrid policy: staff are expected to work from one of the offices at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office attendance.

Annual salary: $305,000–$385,000 USD

Company

Anthropic develops reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems designed to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Own the ideation, design, development, and deployment of safeguards systems and related product experiences for frontier AI models.
• Design safety-by-default protections and downstream defenses across Claude.ai, the first-party API, and external cloud providers.
• Develop safety evaluations, detections, interventions, and tools to measure and mitigate deployment and user risks.
• Define product problems, solution options, technical and business tradeoffs, and MVP requirements.
• Lead collaboration across policy, enforcement, research, engineering, and other cross-functional teams.
• Build metrics covering risk, system performance, user impact, and safeguards blind spots.

Requirements

• Technical judgment and the ability to make tradeoff decisions across policy, AI/ML research, and software engineering.
• Strong understanding of product usage, safeguards concerns, and user-focused solutions.
• Experience building product and engineering strategy across multiple cross-functional teams in rapidly changing environments.
• Experience designing metrics to evaluate risks, system performance, and user impact.
• Experience planning, building, launching, and measuring new products or systems in a zero-to-one environment.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, or relevant professional experience.

Nice to have

• 5+ years of product management experience.
• Experience with data, detection and intervention systems, infrastructure and tools, or safety evaluations.
• Experience working on rapidly changing, ambiguous, or technically complex products.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative research environment focused on large-scale AI safety efforts.
• Flexible working hours and office-based collaboration.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation, and parental leave.
• Visa sponsorship is available, with immigration lawyer support, subject to role and candidate eligibility.
• Emphasis on clear communication, diverse perspectives, and trustworthy AI research.