Product Manager, Safeguards (Generalist)

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · San Francisco · USD 385,000-460,000 / year · 5+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Sep 21, 2026

At a glance

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.

The Safeguards team at Anthropic builds protections for new AI features and protects products and surfaces developed by product teams.
As a Product Manager for the Safeguards team, you will own the ideation, design, development, and deployment of Safeguards systems and relevant product UX.
You will work closely with research and product teams to develop detections, evals, interventions, and tools to measure and mitigate deployment and user risks.

Determine how to build in safety by design upstream and leverage downstream defenses for frontier models and AI products.
Write safety evals and communicate externally about safety.
Drive impact via ruthless prioritization by defining problems, solution options, and business/technical tradeoffs.
Align and collaborate with policy, enforcement, research, engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Understand the AI landscape and ecosystem to plan for mitigation of deployment risks.
Lead the development of metrics to understand area performance and identify blindspots.

Ability to make technical tradeoff decisions across policy, AI/ML research, and software engineering teams.
Strong user understanding of product usage, Safeguards concerns, and solution design.
Demonstrated ability to build product and engineering strategy across multiple cross-functional teams.
Demonstrated experience in designing and building metrics to evaluate risks, system performance, and user impact.
Ability to navigate and prioritize amidst rapidly changing product specs.
Evidence of exercising judgment and decision making in ambiguous situations.
Experience planning, building, launching, and measuring new products/systems in a zero to one environment.
Ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

5+ years in product management with a focus on fast problem understanding and building roadmaps.
Experience getting into the details on data, detection and interventions, infrastructure and tools, and/or evals.

Location-based hybrid policy: expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.