Head of Resilience Operations, Global Safety, Intelligence & Security

Anthropic•Washington, DC

18h•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic’s Global Safety, Intelligence, and Security (GSIS) team is responsible for protecting our people, facilities, and operations worldwide. The function spans intelligence, executive protection, investigations, travel and event security, security technology, security operations, environmental health and safety, and crisis management — and it’s growing quickly as Anthropic’s footprint, public profile, and threat surface all expand. We’re looking for a senior operational leader to own the day-to-day resilience of every Anthropic location worldwide. Reporting to the Head of GSIS, you’ll lead three tightly connected functions — physical security operations, environmental health and safety, and event security — across a global office portfolio that includes specialized environments such as research labs. You’ll manage a growing team of practitioners and an existing EHS program, and you’ll be the person leadership turns to when something needs to be safe, secure, and operational, every day, in every location. This is an unapologetically operational role. You’ll set the standards, run the programs, manage the vendors, own the metrics, and answer for outcomes when something goes wrong at 2am in a different time zone. You’ll partner closely with Real Estate and Workplace, People, Legal, IT, and the rest of the GSIS leadership team — and you’ll work alongside the Head of Protective Services on high-profile events where the threat picture and the operational footprint converge. The right person is equally comfortable writing an OSHA-compliant program from scratch, walking a new office build with a contractor, briefing an executive on event-day security posture, and coaching a guard force supervisor through an incident debrief.

Requirements

15 years of relevant experience
Substantial leadership experience running physical security operations at a multi-site or global organization, with direct accountability for outcomes — not just oversight
Owned or directly managed an OSHA-regulated EHS program, including for specialized environments such as labs, R&D facilities, or similar
Led security planning and execution for major events, including external-facing events with elevated visibility or threat profiles
Managed contract guard forces at scale and know how to get real performance out of a vendor relationship
Experienced people manager who has built and developed teams of security and safety practitioners
Strong judgment under pressure — you can make the right call when information is incomplete and the clock is running
Write and communicate clearly across audiences, from frontline officers to executive leadership
Care about Anthropic’s mission and the unique resilience considerations that come with building frontier AI systems
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Nice To Haves

Hold relevant credentials such as CSP, ASP, CHMM, CPP, PSP, or equivalent
Worked at a high-growth technology company, frontier research organization, or similarly high-scrutiny environment
Stood up physical security or EHS programs in new offices or new countries from the ground up
Direct experience with lab safety, chemical hygiene plans, or research environment EHS
Led security operations during a significant incident, crisis, or sustained threat event
Managed third-party security and EHS providers across multiple regions and regulatory regimes

Responsibilities

Lead global physical security operations
Own physical security strategy, standards, and execution across all Anthropic offices globally — including access control, intrusion detection, visitor management, guard force operations, and after-hours response
Manage the contract guard force vendors end-to-end: selection, SLAs, performance management, and renewal — holding partners to a standard worthy of the company they’re protecting
Build and maintain global physical security standards that scale with new office openings, ensuring consistency without ignoring the realities of local jurisdictions, building stock, and threat environments
Partner with Real Estate and Workplace on new site selection, build-outs, and retrofits to ensure security and life-safety requirements are designed in, not bolted on
Own incident response for physical security events and lead after-action reviews that drive concrete program improvements
Run a true Environmental Health and Safety program
Lead Anthropic’s global EHS program, ensuring compliance with OSHA and equivalent international workplace safety regulations across all locations
Oversee EHS for specialized environments including research labs — covering hazard assessment, chemical hygiene where applicable, ergonomics, emergency action plans, and incident reporting and investigation
Manage and develop the existing EHS program, and grow the function as the company’s footprint expands
Own workplace safety training, recordkeeping, and the evidence base needed for audits, insurance renewals, and regulatory inquiries
Own event security globally
Lead security planning and execution for major Anthropic events — both internal (all-hands, offsites, milestone gatherings) and external-facing (launches, recruiting events, public-facing convenings)
Partner closely with the Protective Services team on events involving senior leadership or elevated threat profiles, ensuring clean handoffs and unified command
Build a repeatable event security operating model — site surveys, threat assessments, staffing plans, communications protocols, run-of-show integration — so every event clears the same bar without reinventing the playbook
Manage event security vendors and contracted staff across regions
Lead and grow the team
Manage a growing team of physical security, EHS, and event security professionals — hiring, developing, and retaining practitioners who can operate independently across regions and time zones
Set performance expectations, run a real operating cadence, and create the kind of team where people want to build careers
Sit on the GSIS leadership team alongside peers leading Intelligence/Investigations/Insider Risk, Protective Services, Public Sector Security, and other pillars — contributing to overall function strategy and cross-pillar initiatives