Head of Security Risk

Anthropic•San Francisco, NY

1d•$345,000 - $410,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As Anthropic’s Head of Security Risk, you will own the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of our security risk management program. Reporting to the Head of Security Risk & Compliance, you’ll build out a team of 4–6 risk engineers and serve as the central point for risk intake, triage, quantification, and assessment across the organization. You’ll work directly with company leadership to build a risk governance structure that brings clarity and discipline to how Anthropic identifies, evaluates, escalates, and treats its most important security risks. This role requires a genuine player-coach: someone who sets the vision and priorities for the risk function while personally diving into the most complex, novel, or high-stakes risk scenarios, particularly those at the frontier of AI risk where established frameworks don’t yet fully apply. You’ll oversee risk quantification processes including stress testing and scenario analysis, guide your team through structured risk assessments, and ensure that risk insights translate into actionable outcomes for engineering, product, and leadership audiences.

Requirements

Have 15+ years of experience in security or risk management disciplines, with at least 5-7 years in a people leadership role managing risk engineers or equivalent
Have built, transformed, or significantly scaled a security risk management program at a high-growth technology company
Have hands-on experience with quantitative risk analysis—including FAIR, scenario modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, or similar approaches
Excel at engaging executives on risk decisions, translating complex technical risk scenarios into clear business-relevant recommendations
Have established risk governance structures (risk councils, steering committees, escalation frameworks) that earned leadership trust
Are a genuine player-coach who leads from the front on the hardest problems while developing your team’s capabilities
Can write precise, compelling risk statements that convey technical depth while remaining accessible to diverse stakeholders
We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Bring deep expertise in risk assessment methodologies (NIST RMF, ISO 31000, FAIR, OCTAVE) and can adapt them to novel risk domains
Have experience assessing AI-specific risks (model security, adversarial attacks, data pipeline integrity, prompt injection, training data provenance)
Bring background in stress testing methodologies from financial services, critical infrastructure, or other high-stakes environments
Have experience presenting to boards, executive risk committees, or senior leadership on enterprise risk posture
Have experience with GRC platforms and risk management tooling (OneTrust, ServiceNow GRC, Archer, MetricStream, or similar)

Responsibilities

Own and steer Anthropic’s security risk management program end-to-end: risk intake, triage, assessment, quantification, treatment tracking, and reporting
Manage and develop a small team of risk engineer, setting priorities, coaching on assessment methodology, and guiding the team through complex risk scenarios
Design and operate the risk intake and triage process for ad hoc weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and risk submissions surfaced from across the company
Partner with leadership to facilitate an enterprise forum for escalation, risk acceptance decisions, and strategic risk discussions
Lead risk quantification efforts including stress testing, scenario modeling, and deep dives into novel risk areas, particularly AI-specific risks with limited precedent
Oversee the execution of periodic and ad hoc security risk assessments across infrastructure, products, operations, and vendors
Develop executive-level risk reporting and dashboards that give leadership clear visibility into top risks, trends, and program effectiveness
Collaborate with various teams such as Engineering, Product, Compliance, Privacy, and Legal to ensure risk assessments reflect cross-functional perspectives and align with regulatory obligations (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, EU AI Act, FedRAMP)
Lead the response to newly identified enterprise-level security risks, coordinating rapid assessment and escalation when needed