Research Product Manager, Model Behaviors

Details

Anthropic is building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. As a Product Manager for Model Behaviors, you will partner with the Alignment Finetuning team to define and shape Claude's character, behaviors, and reinforcement signals—work that directly influences how millions of people experience AI. You will systematically identify high-priority behavioral improvements, coordinate across Research, Product, and Safeguards teams, and accelerate our ability to ship well-aligned models. The ideal candidate combines deep user empathy with the judgment to navigate nuanced behavior questions where there are no clear right answers.

Responsibilities

• Define behavioral defaults and steerability constraints
• Develop and maintain taxonomies of model behaviors across capabilities
• Identify, triage, and prioritize behavior issues and opportunities, coordinating input from Users, Research, Product, and Safeguards teams
• Amplify alignment research breakthroughs, translating them into product, process, and model improvements
• Deeply understand user interaction patterns to identify behavior improvements that make Claude more helpful and safe
• Contribute to evals that measure alignment progress
• Identify and scale initiatives and tools that help researchers ship alignment improvements faster

Requirements (Minimum Qualifications)

• Deep passion and curiosity for AI and LLMs; regular AI usage
• 5+ years in product management leading scaled conversational AI products
• First-principles thinker able to navigate and execute amidst ambiguity
• Track record of delivering products and features to end-users (consumer or end-user B2B focus)
• Strong user empathy and ability to synthesize vague or contradictory feedback into actionable priorities
• Strong judgment and model taste; ability to make tradeoffs without a single right answer
• Strong grasp of ML concepts and willingness to go deep on technical solutions
• Intellectual curiosity, comfort asking questions and learning independently
• Creative problem-solving spirit and interest in puzzles

Salary

• Annual Salary: $385,000 - $460,000 USD

Logistics

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Correlates with internal job level requirements
• Location-based hybrid policy: staff expected to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time (may require more time for some roles)
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic states they do sponsor visas and retain an immigration lawyer to assist, but sponsorship is not guaranteed for every role/candidate

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Office spaces for collaboration