Manager of Product Program Management

Join Anthropic, a leading AI safety and research company, as the Manager of Product Program Management. In this role, you will lead the central program management function in the Product organization, driving strategic programs that unblock growth and running the scaled operations behind them. You will build strong partnerships across various teams, hire and develop a high-performing organization, and define success metrics for each program. This position offers comprehensive benefits, a competitive salary, and the opportunity to make a significant impact in the AI industry.

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

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

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Product Program Management team, overseeing cross-functional programs and ensuring alignment with company priorities.
• Build strong partnerships with various teams across the organization, ensuring that programs reflect their priorities and that they see the team as a trusted extension of their own.
• Define success metrics for each program, report on them through regular business reviews with Product leadership, and ensure continuous improvement.
• The ideal candidate combines strategic judgment about what the company should take on with the operational rigor to make those programs run at scale
• A track record of building programs from 0 to 1 and then scaling them into durable operations
• Experience partnering with engineering teams to replace manual operational work with tooling and automation
• Strong judgment and execution on prioritization: you can stack-rank competing asks from Product, Engineering, GTM, and Finance into one roadmap and explain the tradeoffs

Requirements

• Excitement about building the operational backbone that lets Anthropic's products launch and scale safely
• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action in a fast-moving environment with many priorities at once
• Experience with commercial launches, billing and pricing operations, or marketplace and developer platform operations (more than one a plus)
• 5+ years of people management experience, including managing managers
• Excellent cross-functional influence with stakeholders who don't report to you, including executives
• 12+ years of experience in program management, business operations, or a related field, ideally at a high-growth technology company
• Clear, concise written communication: you can brief an executive in three sentences and write a process doc the next person can run from
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Pay

USD 365,000 - 365,000