Technical Program Manager, Platform
$365k - $435k USD
About Anthropic
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.
About the Role
As a Technical Program Manager for Platform, you'll own the programs that stand up and operate Anthropic's APIs and serving infrastructure across multiple cloud environments. This means driving deployments from scoping through production, running the platform work that spans them, and working across API, Platform Foundations, Security, our cloud provider counterparts, and whoever else is on the critical path when dependencies and tradeoffs pile up.
Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end program execution for Anthropic’s API across major cloud deployments, from scoping through production launch and steady-state operations
- Drive the platform programs that cut across individual deployments: the shared foundations that get built once and reused, not rebuilt per cloud.
- Act as a primary coordination point with cloud provider counterparts, keeping engagement clean across multiple internal teams with touchpoints into the same partner
- Partner with engineering leadership to turn technical direction into executable plans with clear owners, dependencies, and risk tracking
- Build the program scaffolding (roadmaps, status reporting, decision logs, escalation paths) that lets a fast-moving org stay aligned without slowing down
- Drive the hard sequencing conversations when partner commitments, engineering bandwidth, and priorities are in tension, and surface them to leadership with a recommendation
- Identify where program coverage is thin relative to the load and help shape how we staff around it
You may be a good fit if you:
- Have 10+ years of technical program management experience, including ownership of large infrastructure or platform programs with many engineering teams and external partners in the mix
- Have deep technical fluency in cloud APIs, infrastructure, distributed systems, or platform engineering, enough to be a credible partner to senior engineers on architecture and sequencing, not just a tracker of their decisions
- Have run programs spanning organizational boundaries where you had no direct authority over most of the people whose work you depended on, and delivered anyway
- Have direct experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments, large-scale migrations, or building platform abstraction layers
- Have worked with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) or similar large technology partners, and know how to keep those relationships productive when priorities diverge
- Are comfortable operating in ambiguity on the long arc while being ruthlessly concrete on what ships this quarter and who owns it
- Have a track record of making a program get cheaper to run the second and third time, not just landing the first instance
- Thrive in environments where the plan you wrote last month needs rewriting, without losing the thread on what matters
Strong candidates may also:
- Have experience with production serving infrastructure, inference systems, or ML platform work
- Have moved between senior IC and management roles, or have interest in doing so
- Have worked at a company rebuilding systems and org in flight during rapid scale-up
Deadline to Apply: None, applications will be received on a rolling basis.
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:
$365,000—$435,000 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.
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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 matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process