Program Manager, Safeguards Policy, Enforcement, and Threat Intelligence

San Francisco · USD 285,000-330,000 / year · Hybrid · Posted Sep 23, 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.

As the program manager for Anthropic's Safeguards organization, you will keep the Policy, Enforcement, and Threat Intelligence teams moving by tracking portfolios and running connective processes.
Your work will involve managing the operating rhythm, launch and release readiness, and external publications while working closely with leadership to spot risks and clear blockers.
The role requires bringing structure to ambiguous, fast-moving work without adding unnecessary overhead.

Own cross-functional program management for the Policy Design, Enforcement and Threat Intel teams, keeping workstreams across harm areas on track and visible to leadership.
Run the team's operating rhythm: quarterly planning, priority setting, status tracking, and a clear record of decisions, who made them, and why.
Coordinate policy work with partner teams across research, product, engineering, legal, and communications, so dependencies are surfaced early.
Drive readiness for policy, enforcement, and threat intelligence work tied to model launches and product releases, including timelines, reviews, and sign-offs.
Own the process for the org's external publications, including blog posts and threat reports, from idea through drafting, review, approvals, and publication.
Identify risks, blockers, and resourcing gaps across the portfolio, and escalate them with a proposed path forward.
Build lightweight processes and tools that make the team faster, and retire the ones that stop earning their keep.

Experience running cross-functional programs in a fast-moving technical environment, with a track record of shipping on time across teams you don't manage.
Ability to bring structure to ambiguous work: breaking big goals into plans, owners, and milestones, and keeping them current as priorities shift.
Strong written communication, including clear status updates, decision records, and summaries for executive audiences.
Experience managing review and approval processes with multiple stakeholders, such as publications, launches, or policy releases.
Judgment about when a process helps and when it's overhead, and a bias toward the lightest process that works.
Comfort working on sensitive topics and holding high standards for confidentiality.
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a field relevant to the role.

Program management experience in trust & safety, product policy, enforcement operations, threat intelligence, or AI safety.
Familiarity with how AI models are developed and launched, and how policy, enforcement, and threat intelligence work plug into that cycle.
Experience coordinating external publications, research releases, or public communications.
Experience using AI tools, including agentic tools, to automate tracking, reporting, and other recurring program work.

Location-based hybrid policy requiring staff to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require more time.