People Program Manager

People Program Manager

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.

Anthropic is seeking a People Program Manager to join our People PMO team - a nimble team of organizational architects who take the company's most pressing people and culture challenges from 0 to 1. As Anthropic scales past 2,000 employees with ambitious growth ahead, we need builders who can prototype, validate, and operationalize foundational systems that enable the company to grow efficiently while preserving what makes us special.

In this role, you'll serve as a strategic generalist deployed on 3-6 month engagements to build critical organizational capabilities from scratch working on high-impact, high visibility projects. This is a strategic consulting role embedded within People, where you'll need to think like a management consultant, execute like a program manager, and understand people and culture deeply enough to build solutions that actually work within Anthropic's unique culture.

Responsibilities :

Strategic Problem-Solving & Design

• Conduct discovery work including stakeholder mapping, requirements gathering, and current state assessment to deeply understand problems before designing solutions
• Design innovative solutions and pilot approaches that balance speed with sustainability, using systems thinking to ensure interventions address root causes
• Define clear success metrics and transition criteria for each engagement before work begins

0-to-1 Program Building

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

Seamless Transition & Knowledge Transfer

Company Operating Rhythms (25% of role)

You May Be A Good Fit If You :

Strong Candidates May Also Have :

What Makes This Role Unique At Anthropic :

This is an opportunity to work on some of the most strategic and high-visibility people challenges facing a frontier AI company during hyper-growth. You'll have extraordinary variety and learning opportunities, taking on completely new domains every few months and rapidly building expertise across the entire people and organizational landscape.

You'll own entire initiatives end-to-end with significant autonomy - we trust you to figure out the right approach, not follow a prescribed playbook. The role offers a unique vantage point across the entire organization, working with a variety of stakeholders and seeing how different parts of Anthropic connect. Your work directly enables Anthropic to scale effectively while maintaining our values and culture, ultimately helping ensure the world safely navigates the transition through transformative AI.

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 : $175,000 - $245,000 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 their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

How We're Different :

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including : GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come Work With Us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation