Program Manager, Safeguards Policy, Enforcement, and Threat Intelligence (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA; hybrid with staff expected to be in an office at least 25% of the time

Annual salary: $285,000–$330,000 USD

Company

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

What you will do

• Manage cross-functional programs across Policy Design, Enforcement, and Threat Intelligence.
• Run quarterly planning, priority setting, status tracking, and decision records.
• Coordinate dependencies with research, product, engineering, legal, and communications teams.
• Drive readiness for model launches and product releases, including timelines, reviews, and sign-offs.
• Manage external publication workflows for blog posts, threat reports, and related materials.
• Identify risks, blockers, and resourcing gaps, and build lightweight tools and processes to address them.

Requirements

• Experience running cross-functional programs in a fast-moving technical environment and delivering work across teams.
• Ability to structure ambiguous work into plans, owners, milestones, and continuously updated priorities.
• Strong written communication for status updates, decision records, and executive summaries.
• Experience managing multi-stakeholder review and approval processes.
• Sound judgment about when processes add value and when they create unnecessary overhead.
• Comfort working with sensitive topics and maintaining strict confidentiality.

Nice to have

• Experience in trust and safety, product policy, enforcement operations, threat intelligence, or AI safety.
• Familiarity with AI model development, launches, and the connection between policy, enforcement, and threat intelligence.
• Experience coordinating external publications, research releases, or public communications.
• Experience using AI and agentic tools to automate tracking, reporting, and recurring program work.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on large-scale AI research and trustworthy, steerable AI.
• Flexible working hours and an office-based collaboration model.
• 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.
• The role may involve explicit sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing content and occasional late-night or weekend work.

Hiring process

• Applicants should review Anthropic's guidance on AI usage during the application process.
• Anthropic may contact candidates through its official recruiting channels or vetted recruiting agencies.