Product Manager, Developer Services (Lead)

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 Role

As the Product Lead for Developer Services at Anthropic, you will lead a team of product managers responsible for how developers discover, adopt, and succeed with Claude's API platform. Your team owns the complete developer journey—from first API call to production deployment—across our console experience, SDKs, documentation, and developer tools.

This is a player-coach role where you'll set strategic direction for developer experience while directly managing 3-4 product managers covering areas including DevX (console, SDKs, docs), Evals, Observability. You'll be instrumental in driving product-led growth and ensuring that developers love building with Claude.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership

• Lead and develop a team of 3-4 product managers across Developer Experience, MCP, and Custom Agents
• Set vision and strategy for developer services that aligns with Anthropic's API business objectives
• Coach and mentor PMs on product craft, stakeholder management, and career development
• Recruit and hire exceptional product talent to grow the team

Strategy & Product Vision

• Define the holistic developer experience strategy spanning onboarding, documentation, tooling, and support
• Drive product-led growth initiatives that improve developer activation, engagement, and retention
• Establish metrics and success criteria across the developer funnel from signup to production usage
• Identify opportunities to differentiate Anthropic's developer experience in a competitive market

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner with Engineering leadership to align on team structures, roadmaps, and delivery
• Collaborate with Developer Relations on community engagement, content strategy, and developer feedback loops
• Work with Sales and Customer Success to ensure developer products support enterprise adoption
• Coordinate with Research and Safety teams on how new capabilities should be exposed to developers

You may be a good fit if you have

• 7+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years managing other product managers
• Extensive experience with developer-facing products including APIs, SDKs, documentation, or developer tools
• Track record of building products that developers love, with demonstrated product-led growth results
• Strong technical background with ability to engage deeply on API design and developer workflows
• Proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain high-performing product talent
• Excellence in cross-functional leadership and influencing without direct authority
• Data-driven approach to product decisions with strong analytical skills

Strong candidates may also have

• Experience at high-growth developer platform companies (Stripe, Twilio, Datadog, GitHub, etc.)
• Background in AI/ML platforms or infrastructure products
• Experience with open source community management and ecosystem development
• Track record of public speaking, developer advocacy, or thought leadership

The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.

Annual Salary:$385,000—$460,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed.  Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of