Technical Program Manager, Pacing

Details

Anthropic is hiring a Technical Program Manager to lead its Pacing program, which focuses on ensuring that AI capability advances are accompanied by sufficient safety work. The program spans projects across Safety, Research, Policy, Legal, Communications, and Engineering.

The role requires sufficient technical depth to drive discussions about model training, evaluations, and compute, along with the judgment to coordinate cross-functional decisions and deliver against high-level, ambiguous objectives.

Responsibilities

• Own the Pacing program end to end, maintaining an accurate view of projects, owners, milestones, dependencies, and gaps.
• Turn executive strategy into scoped projects with measurable outcomes and timelines, and drive proposals to decisions.
• Run the operating rhythm through working sessions, written updates, executive reviews, and follow-up on decisions and action items.
• Work with the Responsible Scaling Policy team and researchers to define evidence and sign-off requirements for models at key points in training and deployment.
• Track Anthropic's public and internal pacing commitments and coordinate related work, publications, and events with Policy and Communications.
• Partner with Legal throughout each project and handle confidential and sensitive work with integrity.
• Define progress metrics, report candidly, and recommend which projects and practices to continue, change, or stop.
• Use Claude to build automations that enable teams to have broader and deeper impact.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience leading multiple complex technical programs spanning organizations and involving engineering or research teams, from ambiguous goals through delivery.
• Strong program management skills, including planning, milestone and dependency tracking, and risk management across concurrent projects.
• Technical fluency sufficient to identify risks and challenge tradeoffs in how frontier AI models are trained, evaluated, and deployed.
• Working knowledge of AI safety and major debates about how frontier AI should be developed and governed.
• A track record of delivering through senior leaders and teams that do not report to you, including changing how they work when necessary.
• Experience preparing executive decisions by framing options, making recommendations, and recording outcomes.
• Sound judgment and discretion with confidential and sensitive information.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at a frontier AI developer, government AI institute, independent evaluator, or AI safety or governance research organization.
• Hands-on experience with frontier AI safety work, including safety frameworks, safety cases, risk reports, model evaluations, or reviews of model training or deployment.
• Familiarity with measuring AI progress, including compute, capability trends, and the use of AI to accelerate AI research.
• Experience delivering programs combining technical work with public policy or bringing together experts from different organizations.
• Experience managing published commitments or high-visibility public releases.
• Experience building a program from zero and reshaping it as strategy evolved.

Education and Experience

• 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 as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
• Required years of experience correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position.

Compensation

• Annual salary: $290,000–$365,000 USD.

Benefits and Logistics

• Hybrid policy: Staff are currently expected to work from one of Anthropic's offices at least 25% of the time, although some roles may require more office time.
• Anthropic sponsors visas and will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa for candidates who receive an offer, with support from an immigration lawyer.
• Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration spaces.