TPM Manager, Infrastructure

Anthropic•San Francisco, CA

2d•$365,000 - $565,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic’s Infrastructure organization is responsible for the systems that train their models, serve their products, and support their engineering teams. This includes datacenter operations, capacity planning across cloud providers and their own facilities, accelerator cluster management, production serving infrastructure, developer tooling, data pipelines, and networking. The role is for a TPM leader to own program management across this ecosystem, from compute provisioning through to production workloads. The team is growing rapidly, and they are looking for a senior leader with experience at scale to build and scale this team to support Anthropic’s rapid growth. The role reports to the Head of TPM, partnering closely with various engineering leaders on technical strategy, roadmapping, and aligning TPM support where it is most impactful. The individual will personally drive 2–3 critical programs while leading their team in parallel, and needs to be comfortable doing the work themselves before handing it off.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in technical program management
7+ years directly managing TPMs
Experience leading larger TPM organizations
Experience building a team or function from scratch
Experience scaling TPM teams to support rapidly-growing, fast-moving company environments
Experience across physical and software infrastructure—datacenters, networking, hardware ops, distributed systems, cloud platforms, developer tooling.
Experience running large-scale compute or infrastructure programs—capacity planning, cluster deployments, datacenter build-outs, cloud migrations, or similar.
Ability to communicate complex programs clearly to senior leadership without losing the important details.
Comfortable context-switching between doing the work and managing people.
Comfortable making staffing and prioritization decisions without perfect information.

Nice To Haves

Some experience leading larger TPM organizations
Some experience leading larger TPM organizations
You know the difference between hiring for a defined role vs. figuring out what the roles should be
You don’t need to be deep in all of physical and software infrastructure, but you need to be conversant enough to ask the right questions and spot the real risks.
The IC work is not beneath you.

Responsibilities

Own and drive 2–3 of the highest-priority programs across infrastructure while you build the team.
Run the actual programs—datacenter bring-up timelines, capacity scaling plans, infrastructure migrations, cross-team reliability efforts, or whatever the most pressing needs are.
Build the processes and playbooks as you go—figure out what works by doing it, then codify it for the team.
Earn credibility with engineering leads through solid execution, not just strategy.
Set the standard for what good TPM work looks like in this domain through your own output.
Coach and develop TPMs.
Transition programs to your team as you hire.
Grow the team with excellent TPMs by defining roles, writing JDs, sourcing candidates, and closing hires.
Work with various engineering leads to identify work that would most benefit from TPM support.
Make real tradeoffs about what to staff vs. what to skip given limited TPM capacity during the build phase.
Maintain portfolio-level visibility across programs—status, risks, dependencies, blockers.
Represent the team in planning cycles and leadership reviews.
Coordinate across Infrastructure and partner teams (Research, Product, Security, Finance, Legal) on programs that span organizational boundaries.
Drive alignment on programs that cross the hardware/software line—e.g., capacity plans that feed into training schedules, or efficiency work that spans accelerator kernels and serving systems.
Own executive communication on program status, risks, and resource needs.