Technical Program Manager, Pacing

About this role

Lead Anthropic’s Pacing program, coordinating cross-functional work to ensure safety efforts keep pace with advances in AI capabilities. Turn executive strategy into measurable projects, maintain accountability across teams, and support dependable safety reviews for model training and deployment.

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.

The team

Pacing, working closely with the Responsible Scaling Policy team and partners across Safety, Research, Policy, Legal, Communications, and Engineering.

Stack

What you'll do

• Own the Pacing program, tracking projects, owners, milestones, dependencies, and gaps.
• Translate strategy into scoped projects with measurable outcomes and timelines; drive proposals to decisions.
• Run project working sessions, written updates, and executive reviews, and follow through on decisions and actions.
• Partner with the Responsible Scaling Policy team and researchers to define evidence and sign-off for model training and deployment reviews.
• Track public and internal commitments and coordinate related work, publications, and events with Policy and Communications.
• Work with Legal on projects involving confidential or sensitive matters.
• Measure and report progress, and recommend which projects or practices to continue, change, or stop.
• Use Claude to build automations that broaden teams’ impact.

What we're looking for

• Experience leading multiple complex technical programs across organizations, from ambiguous goals through delivery.
• Strong program planning, milestone and dependency tracking, and risk management skills.
• Technical fluency to assess risks and challenge tradeoffs in frontier AI training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Working knowledge of AI safety and debates about frontier AI development and governance.
• Track record of delivering through senior leaders and teams who do not report to you.
• Experience preparing executive decisions with options, recommendations, and documented outcomes.
• Sound judgment and discretion with confidential information.

Nice to have

• Experience at a frontier AI developer, government AI institute, independent evaluator, or AI safety or governance research organization.
• Hands-on experience with AI safety frameworks, safety cases, risk reports, model evaluations, or training and deployment reviews.
• Familiarity with AI progress measures, including compute, capability trends, and AI-assisted AI research.
• Experience delivering programs spanning technical work and public policy or multiple organizations.
• Experience managing public commitments or high-visibility releases.
• Experience building a program from zero and adapting it as strategy evolves.

Benefits

• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours