Technical Program Manager, Agent Safety & Security

Anthropic•San Francisco, CA

14h•$365,000 - $435,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is hiring a Technical Program Manager to lead high-priority safety and security programs that advance defense in depth for agents. The role coordinates work across teams to strengthen how Anthropic develops and deploys agents safely and securely, and to bring internal work to customers and partners so they can use Claude safely and securely. The TPM leads meetings with executives and technical leads, maintains complex project plans, identifies and addresses risks, develops metrics, and communicates progress to the company and customers. The role maintains and extends a company-wide roadmap, defines measurable exit criteria and metrics, runs operating rhythms and reviews, communicates decisions and status, maintains a risk register, and coordinates company-wide rollouts. It also leads through other TPMs and engineering managers without formal reporting authority, takes coordination work off technical leaders, and tracks industry incidents, capability shifts, and research to inform threat models and plans.

Requirements

10 or more years of experience in one or more of the specified program domains.
Experience leading company-wide technical programs, especially company-wide security programs with multiple workstreams, executive sponsors, and other program managers reporting into the program.
Strong background in at least one of these domains: agent or infrastructure security; ML classifiers and monitoring; evaluations; inference infrastructure; protecting an organization's most sensitive data; or shipping security controls to customers.
Experience working closely with ML research teams and understanding how models are trained and evaluated.
Ability to work independently, set direction, make decisions, and recognize when to escalate.
Ability to lead discussions and hold senior engineers, researchers, and executives accountable without formal authority.
Ability to write clearly and quickly for varied audiences, from executive briefs to company-wide announcements.
Ability and interest in using AI tools such as Claude to automate tracking, reporting, and follow-up.
Care about AI safety and a desire to help keep powerful systems under human oversight.
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
A field of study relevant to the role, as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Responsibilities

Maintain and extend the company-wide roadmap for work contributing to the program, ensuring its accuracy and relevance amid a fast operational tempo.
Turn program goals into measurable exit criteria for each phase, respond to changes in capabilities and the threat landscape, and maintain key metrics and dashboards.
Run the operating rhythm by chairing leads and working-group meetings, design reviews, and executive check-ins; record decisions and actions, distribute sitreps, and follow up on open issues.
Lead executive and contributor communications, including conversations, regular reports, design documents, and decisional documents; clearly communicate status and where help is needed.
Maintain a risk register covering risks, exceptions, and risk acceptances, and bring difficult decisions to the appropriate decision maker.
Partner with internal communications on progress updates and rollouts that change how employees work with Claude.
Lead through other TPMs and engineering managers who do not report to the role; set shared standards, identify coverage gaps, and augment capacity when needed.
Reduce coordination load for technical leaders by finding owners for cross-team problems, framing tradeoffs across Security, Safeguards, Research, Privacy, Legal, and Product, managing staffing tasks, and organizing exercises to test controls.
Track relevant industry incidents, capability shifts, and research across frontier labs, and incorporate lessons into the threat model, roadmap, and risk register.