Program Manager, Accounting Operations & Strategy

Anthropic•San Francisco, CA

5d•$230,000 - $300,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is seeking a Program Manager to help its Accounting organization operate as one global team as it scales across multiple hubs. The role owns the connective programs that keep the organization aligned, including annual goal-setting, leadership operating cadence, org-wide events, internal communications, and initiatives that help a distributed team feel connected. The Program Manager partners with Accounting leadership, the People team, Finance Systems, and hub leads. The role combines program management, operations, chief-of-staff support, and culture-building, with responsibility for improving how the organization plans and works, supporting employee experience and development, and maintaining team operations and information.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in program management, operations, chief-of-staff, or strategy roles.
Clear, direct writing skills, including the ability to brief a senior leader in a few sentences.
Good judgment and the ability to manage many moving pieces without dropping them.
Ability to handle confidential information and sensitive people topics.
Ability to run recurring programs end to end and secure follow-through without formal authority.
Minimum education: a bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
A field of study relevant to the role, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience within a finance or accounting organization.
Experience supporting distributed or global teams.
Ability to recognize when a process is getting in the way and should be simplified.

Responsibilities

Run the annual goal-setting process and reporting that tracks progress against goals.
Review and improve organizational meetings, handoffs, planning cycles, and decision-making processes.
Maintain an organization-wide planning calendar covering close, audit, team milestones, and company-wide and team events.
Build and maintain organizational health metrics, including attrition, engagement scores, hiring pipeline, training completion, and survey trends, and report on them regularly.
Run the extended leadership team (XLT) program, including agendas, meetings, follow-ups, and action items.
Plan the annual offsite and its agenda, and run quarterly team all-hands.
Write regular team newsletters and leadership talking points for communicating changes across the organization.
Coordinate cross-organizational projects that support employee experience programs.
Partner with the People team to roll out Accounting training and development programs.
Review team survey results, identify themes, develop action plans, follow through, and report back to the team.
Run hub programs, including visits, rotations, local events, and meeting norms that work across time zones.
Run recognition programs and team rituals for wins, milestones, anniversaries, and peer recognition, especially across hubs.
Support contractor management, including onboarding, tracking, and coordination with relevant partners.
Keep the team knowledge base current, including the wiki, org charts, role descriptions, and key process documents.
Keep the team calendar accurate.