Technical Program Manager, Responsible Scaling Policy

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our Responsible Scaling Policy defines a series of capability thresholds – AI Safety Levels (ASLs) – that represent increasing risks – crossing an ASL threshold would trigger a commitment to more stringent safety, security, and operational measures, intended to handle the increased level of risk. 
We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to own and drive coordination of our Responsible Scaling Policy implementation, a program that spans our Engineering, Research, and Product orgs.
About the TeamIn this role, you will work as a member of our centralized TPM function. Strong soft skills are paramount, as you will be front and center driving this top priority initiative. This will require generating buy-in, balancing various opinions, and competing for attention in our rapidly scaling environment. This role is a great fit for someone who has both seen excellence at scale and operated in a rapidly scaling environment. We are seeking candidates with existing TPM expertise but who are comfortable acting as adaptable generalists who add value fast. We excel at maintaining a broad view of our work but diving deep into the details when necessary. We understand company-wide safety and business goals, translate and organize them into technical projects, and drive execution. We are adept at engaging with both non-technical and technical stakeholders at all levels of the company, including executive leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Develop detailed project plans, timelines, and resourcing strategies for RSP implementation.
• Provide clear and transparent reporting on program status, issues, and risks to executives and stakeholders, including Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Officer.
• Lead cross-functional coordination and planning for RSP-related projects, acting as the glue between product, engineering, research, and others.
• Collaborate with team leads to define, scope, and sequence RSP-related projects which sit between teams’ natural scope of work.
• Implement scalable program management frameworks, playbooks, and best practices.
• Contribute to systems, processes, and tools to support technical program management and increase team productivity.
• Foster a culture of accountability, rigor, and continuous improvement on the technical program management team.

Representative Projects:

• Driving company-wide progress on initiatives related to the commitments listed in Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP).
• Developing a systematic way of gathering and aggregating internal forecasts on AI capabilities, to help the executive team and board estimate proximity to higher ASLs
• Synthesizing information to feed into our quarterly RSP implementation report which the Responsible Scaling Officer presents to the Board and Long-Term Benefit Trust. 
• Synthesizing feedback from teams around operationalizing commitments, to feed back into future iterations and improvements to the policy. 

You might be a good fit if you:

• Have 2+ years experience in technical program and project management, with a track record of successfully delivering complex and cross-functional technical projects.
• Could help teams operationalize the high-level RSP commitments leaning on familiarity with concepts in the RSP such as machine learning research, model evaluations, and safety research.
• Thrive in unstructured environments, and have a knack for bringing order to chaos, thoughtfully balancing setting strategic priorities with rapid and high-quality execution.
• Have strong interpersonal and communication skills that enable you to influence without authority, build cross-organizational support, cooperation and action around initiatives and process adoption.
• Are deeply passionate about Anthropic’s safety mission and ensuring that AI is developed safely.

Annual Salary (USD)

• The expected salary range for this position is $280,000 to $320,000 USD

Hybrid policy & US visa sponsorship: Currently, we expect all staff to be in our office at least 25% of the time. We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate; operations roles are especially difficult to support. But if we make you an offer, we will make every effort to get you into the United States, 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