Threat Intel Manager, Influence Operations & Surveillance

Anthropic•San Francisco, CA

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is seeking a Threat Intel Manager to establish and lead its Influence Operations & Surveillance team within Threat Intelligence. This team will focus on detecting, investigating, and disrupting the misuse of Anthropic's AI systems for influence operations, coordinated inauthentic behavior, and surveillance by authoritarian states and the commercial spyware industry. This is a foundational leadership role where the manager will develop automated detection capabilities, set strategic direction for identifying and countering state-linked information manipulation and surveillance misuse, and lead complex investigations. The role may involve exposure to explicit content and require responding to escalations during weekends and holidays.

Requirements

Deep subject matter expertise in influence operations, coordinated inauthentic behavior, or state surveillance / commercial spyware ecosystems.
Have led investigative teams or threat intel teams.
Demonstrated proficiency in SQL and Python for data analysis and threat detection.
Experience attributing campaigns to specific threat actors, including state-sponsored operations.
Strong OSINT tradecraft for investigating online information ecosystems.
Hands-on experience with large language models and how they can be weaponized for IO and surveillance.
Can present analytical work to technical and non-technical audiences, including government stakeholders and senior leadership.

Nice To Haves

Experience at a major technology platform on influence operations, platform integrity, or content authenticity.
Background in intelligence analysis, information operations, or counter-disinformation in government or military contexts.
Experience investigating commercial spyware or surveillance-as-a-service vendors (e.g., civil-society or vendor-research backgrounds).
Experience investigating operations linked to Chinese, Russian, Iranian, or other state-sponsored campaigns.
Fluency in Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Farsi, and/or Arabic with nuanced regional and geopolitical context.
Familiarity with social network analysis for mapping coordinated behavior.
Active Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

Own strategy, priorities, and outcomes for the Influence Operations & Surveillance threat intel mission area.
Hire, manage, and develop a small team of technical threat investigators with IO and surveillance expertise.
Personally lead investigations into state-linked surveillance misuse, including commercial spyware vendors and surveillance products whose end customers are authoritarian governments, and AI-enabled influence campaigns.
Stand up the mission area's first automated detection: abuse signals, behavioral clustering, and coordinated-network detection tailored to information manipulation and surveillance tooling.
Conduct cross-platform analysis linking on-platform activity to broader campaigns across social media, messaging platforms, and the spyware supply chain.
Attribute campaigns to specific actors, with particular focus on state-sponsored operations from geopolitically significant regions.
Own external engagement: government partners, platform integrity teams, academic and civil-society researchers, and threat intelligence sharing communities.
Drive public and partner-facing reporting on AI-enabled IO and surveillance, and inform safety-by-design strategies as multimodal and agentic capabilities reshape the landscape.