Product Manager, API Platform Experience

Anthropic • San Francisco, CA

108d • $305,000 - $385,000

About The Position

At Anthropic, we're building MCP (Model Context Protocol) as the industry standard for AI context integration. Since its launch in November 2024, developers have created hundreds of integrations, enabling AI models to securely and efficiently connect with external context, tools, and capabilities. As a Product Manager on the MCP team, you'll help shape the future of AI integrations while working in the open with a vibrant developer community. The MCP team focuses on protocol development, developer experience, and ecosystem growth. Drawing inspiration from successful open source teams, we balance the needs of our internal products with those of the broader developer community. Our team works in public, engaging directly with developers and maintaining high standards for backwards compatibility, security, and performance.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a Product Manager working on developer-focused products
• Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects
• Strong technical aptitude to understand protocol architecture and to partner with engineers; software engineering experience is a plus
• Comfortable working in public and engaging with developer communities
• Proficiency in SQL and experience analyzing, interpreting, and leveraging data to make strategic, business decisions
• Successfully launched zero-to-one products that have found distribution or commercial success
• Experience with protocol design, APIs, or developer platforms
• Strong technical communication skills, both written and verbal
• The ability to navigate and execute amidst ambiguity, and to flex into different domains based on the business problem at hand
• Care about security, scalability, and backwards compatibility
• Passion for thinking creatively about how to use technology in a way that is safe and beneficial, and ultimately furthers the goal of advancing safe AI systems

Nice To Haves

• Track record of successful open source contributions or project maintenance
• Experience with AI/ML systems or large language models
• Background in developer tools or platform engineering
• Public speaking experience at technical conferences
• Experience building and supporting enterprise integrations

Responsibilities

• Conceive and execute on a product vision and strategy for MCP that establishes it as the industry standard for AI context integration
• Drive technical discussions and decision-making through public RFCs and GitHub issues in collaboration with the open source community
• Conduct user research by engaging directly with developers through interviews, surveys, forum participation, and GitHub interactions to understand their pain points and requirements
• Synthesize user insights into actionable product requirements, user stories, and protocol specifications
• Design intuitive and developer-friendly protocol interfaces, SDKs, and documentation experiences
• Analyze MCP usage data and feedback to measure product success and uncover new opportunities
• Support both external developers and internal teams building on MCP
• Represent the developer perspective and advocate for their needs across the organization
• Balance competing needs from various stakeholders while maintaining technical excellence
• Communicate product roadmap, releases, and value propositions to developer users
• Help shape the technical direction of the protocol while ensuring backward compatibility

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree