Product Manager, Safeguards Rare Harms

About the role

The Safeguards team at Anthropic is dedicated to ensuring that our AI assistants are helpful, harmless, and honest. As the world uses our AI services more, we need to ensure they are not misused. You will own the ideation, design, development, and deployment of Safeguards systems and relevant product UX to ensure we are advancing frontier models safely to users across various cloud platforms.

You will work closely with our research and product teams to develop detections, evaluations, interventions, and tools to measure and mitigate deployment and user risks. You are deeply committed to making AI safe and beneficial for humanity, aware of the risks, and committed to working with experts to implement solutions.

Responsibilities

• Determine how to build in safety by design upstream and leverage downstream defenses for Anthropic’s frontier models, AI products, customers on different surfaces - Claude.ai, 1P API, external Cloud providers.
• Ability to write safety evaluations and communicate externally about safety.
• Drive impact via ruthless prioritization by clearly defining problems, solution options forward, clarity on both business & technical tradeoffs and accordingly clear requirements toward MVP vs. ideal state.
• Align & collaborate with policy, enforcement, research, engineering and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Understand the AI landscape and ecosystem to plan for mitigation of deployment risks of increasingly powerful models and determined adversaries.
• Lead the development of metrics to understand the area, performance, blindspots to help inform future project planning.

Requirements

We are looking for a product manager who is deeply committed to making AI safe and beneficial for humanity. You are aware of the risks and are committed to working with experts and coming up with ideas for Anthropic to implement. You have deep technical expertise in development, deployment, and measurement of Safeguards systems. You thrive in rapidly moving and ambiguous environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management with a focus on fast problem understanding, building roadmaps with tractable progress, ability to get into the details on data, detection & interventions, infrastructure & tools, and/or evals.
• Ability to make technical tradeoff decisions; ideally with experience working across policy experts, AI/ML research engineers and software engineering teams to design and build state of the art safety systems.
• Strong user understanding of how our products are used, their Safeguards concerns and how we provide the best solutions.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and building metrics to evaluate risks, system performance, user impact and making crisp tradeoffs.
• Very strong ability to navigate, and prioritize amidst rapidly changing product specs, and to flex into different domains to bring clarity and execute.
• Evidence of exercising judgment and decision making in ambiguous situations.
• Planning, building, launching and measuring new products / systems in a zero to one environment.
• Clearly articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences in written and verbal communication.
• Think creatively about the risks and benefits of new technologies, and think beyond past checklists and playbooks.

Benefits

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Pay

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Annual Salary $305,000—$385,000 USD

Schedule

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.

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 as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position