Technical Program Management, Alignment

Anthropic•San Francisco, NY

4d•$210,000 - $290,000•Onsite

About The Position

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the Team The Alignment Special Ops team identifies and executes some of the most neglected, high-leverage projects across Anthropic’s Alignment org and beyond. We’re a small team with a broad mandate and our work takes us across the entire company (and often, the broader safety research ecosystem). You will accelerate technical research, incubate new research efforts, and drive high-priority initiatives that don’t have a natural home elsewhere (e.g., the Anthropic Fellows Program ). About the Role You’ll own 3–4 special projects at a time. These are generally ambiguous, cross-functional problems that need someone to define the goal and approach, build the plan, coordinate the team, and drive to a result. This role is in-person in San Francisco, CA.

Requirements

5+ years in chief-of-staff, program management, operations, or similar roles in a research, technical, or fast-moving environment (e.g., consulting, startups)
Can take a loosely-scoped problem, define a goal, break it into concrete steps, and execute without waiting for direction
Have built and managed teams, programs, or functions from scratch
Write clearly and concisely—you default to a one-page doc over a five-page one
Are comfortable making decisions with incomplete information
Can hold the details of multiple workstreams simultaneously while context-switching between them
Are deeply motivated by Anthropic’s mission of ensuring the world safely manages the transition through transformative AI
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

Nice To Haves

Experience working directly with researchers, especially in AI safety or machine learning
Familiarity with the AI safety research landscape, key organizations, and ongoing debates

Responsibilities

Scope, plan, and drive model evaluation projects end-to-end: understand the goal with researchers, coordinate contributors across teams & externally, staff efforts, and produce deliverables on a tight deadline
Manage external research collaborators—onboarding, expectation-setting, contracts, and handling edge cases as they arise
Synthesize complex information into decision-relevant inputs for leadership so they can move quickly
Identify new projects the company should take on, make the case in writing, get buy-in, and execute
Run the Alignment team offsite and similar events, including managing logistics, agendas, and delegation