Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The company wants AI to be safe and beneficial for users and society as a whole.
As a Product Manager for the Safeguards team at Anthropic, you will own the ideation, design, development, and deployment of Safeguards systems and relevant product UX. Your goal will be to ensure the advancement of frontier models safely to users across various cloud platforms.
You will work closely with research and product teams to develop detections, evaluations, interventions, and tools to measure and mitigate deployment and user risks.
The ideal candidate is deeply committed to making AI safe and beneficial for humanity. They should have deep technical expertise in the development, deployment, and measurement of Safeguards systems.
Responsibilities:
- Determine how to build safety by design upstream and leverage downstream defenses for Anthropic's frontier models, AI products, and customers on different surfaces.
- Write safety evaluations and communicate externally about safety.
- Drive impact via ruthless prioritization by clearly defining problems, solution options, and trade-offs.
- Collaborate with policy, enforcement, research, engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Understand the AI landscape and ecosystem to plan for mitigation of deployment risks.
- Lead the development of metrics to understand the area, performance, blind spots, and inform future project planning.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Ability to make technical trade-off decisions, ideally with experience working across policy experts, AI/ML research engineers, and software engineering teams.
- Strong user understanding of how products are used, their Safeguards concerns, and how to provide the best solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to build product and engineering strategy across multiple cross-functional teams.
- Experience in designing and building metrics to evaluate risks, system performance, user impact, and making trade-offs.
- Ability to navigate and prioritize amidst rapidly changing product specs.
- Evidence of exercising judgment and decision-making in ambiguous situations.
- Planning, building, launching, and measuring new products/systems in a zero-to-one environment.
- Ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years in product management with a focus on fast problem understanding, building roadmaps, and getting into details on data, detection & interventions, infrastructure & tools, and/or evaluations.
The annual compensation range for this role is $305,000 – $385,000 USD.
Logistics:
- Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
- Required field of study: A field relevant to the role.
- Minimum years of experience: Correlates with internal job level requirements.
- Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, staff are expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
- Visa sponsorship: Available, with efforts made to secure visas for successful candidates.
