Senior People Program Manager, International

Anthropic•San Francisco, CA

8h•$310,000 - $380,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is seeking a Senior People Program Manager to manage complex, cross-cutting initiatives that span multiple teams and do not fit neatly into any single group's responsibilities. This role is crucial for scaling the company by providing structure, coordination, and follow-through on high-stakes decisions and initiatives. A primary focus will be on international expansion, where the manager will partner with existing teams to advance decisions, maintain coordination, and ensure a coherent company approach as it grows. Additionally, the role will involve taking on other strategic projects as they arise, tackling ambiguous, cross-cutting problems that require rapid learning, structure creation, and successful completion. This is a high-autonomy position for individuals who excel in complexity and ambiguity, focusing on bringing people together, ensuring principled and well-documented decisions, and maintaining coherence, rather than being a technical expert. Success relies on building trust and alignment among senior stakeholders with diverse priorities, as well as developing effective systems.

Requirements

Have built or owned a decision-making process or governance framework for a complex, multi-stakeholder domain (you've designed the system, not just worked within one).
Thrive on variety and can hold several very different, ambiguous problems at once without dropping any.
Can get senior leaders with very different working styles to a shared, documented outcome, including people who resist process and people who want a lot of it.
Are exceptionally organized and build systems that outlast you: decision logs, playbooks, and documentation a new leader can pick up without you in the room.
Can ramp quickly on unfamiliar, complex domains, reasoning your way to the right questions and knowing when to bring in an expert. (International expansion is one such domain you'd pick up.)
Build credibility quickly with senior stakeholders across functions, and can hold that credibility while delivering hard messages.

Nice To Haves

10+ years in program management, business operations, chief of staff, or People/HR roles at a fast-growing company, with increasing scope over time.
Experience owning a company-wide framework or policy across multiple stakeholders and keeping it operational through change.
A track record of juggling several unrelated, high-stakes projects at once.
Experience working directly with senior finance or legal leaders on cross-functional decisions.
A background in international employment, entity formation, or global mobility.

Responsibilities

Lead complex, cross-cutting projects end to end surfacing trade-offs, connecting overlapping efforts, and driving decisions to a clear, documented resolution.
Partner with the teams already driving international expansion to keep decisions moving and the company's approach coherent as it grows.
Take on other strategic projects as they come up; ambiguous, high-priority problems that need someone who can ramp fast, create structure, and see them through.
Build and maintain the frameworks and documentation that help decisions stick and stay findable as priorities and leadership change.
Spot complexity early and set expectations with stakeholders before the company commits; knowing when to pull in the right expertise.
Manage a multi-workstream portfolio, keeping the right people informed at the right time without becoming a bottleneck.