365K–435K USD / year
Technical Program Manager, Agent Safety & Security
OperationsHybrid — San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY
Published on 2026-10-21
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About this role
Lead company-wide programs to strengthen the safety and security of AI agents and help deliver those safeguards to customers and partners. Coordinate cross-functional teams, maintain roadmaps and risk tracking, and communicate progress and decisions to executives, employees, and customers.
About the company
Anthropic builds reliable and interpretable AI systems, including the Claude family of models, for businesses and developers. The company focuses on AI safety research and practical AI assistants for enterprise and consumer use.
What you'll do
- Maintain the cross-company program roadmap, phase exit criteria, metrics, and dashboards
- Run program meetings, design reviews, and executive check-ins; record decisions and track follow-ups
- Communicate program status, risks, and decisions to executives, contributors, employees, and customers
- Maintain a risk register and escalate exceptions and risk acceptances to decision-makers
- Coordinate TPMs and engineering managers across workstreams without direct authority
- Resolve cross-team issues spanning Security, Safeguards, Research, Privacy, Legal, and Product
- Organize exercises to test controls and incorporate industry incidents and research into threat models
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of experience in a relevant technical program domain
- Experience leading company-wide technical programs with multiple workstreams and executive sponsors
- Strong background in at least one relevant area, such as agent or infrastructure security, ML monitoring, evaluations, inference infrastructure, sensitive-data protection, or customer security controls
- Experience working closely with ML research teams and understanding model training and evaluation
- Able to set direction independently and hold senior technical leaders accountable without formal authority
- Excellent writing and communication skills for technical, executive, and company-wide audiences
Nice to have
- Experience leading a company-wide security program with other program managers reporting into the program
- Familiarity with AI safety and keeping powerful systems under human oversight
- Use of AI tools such as Claude to automate tracking, reporting, and follow-up
Benefits
- Hybrid work with at least 25% in-office attendance expected
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Optional equity donation matching