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full-timeManager, Product Program Management
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company focused on building reliable, interpretable and steerable artificial‑intelligence systems. The Manager, Product Program Management role heads the central program‑management function within Anthropic’s Product organization. Day‑to‑day responsibilities include defining the team’s charter, selecting and scaling cross‑functional programs, and partnering with product, engineering, go‑to‑market, finance and legal groups to align priorities. The manager will hire, lead and develop a group of managers and program managers across Commercialization Operations, Community and Executive Escalations Operations, and Marketplace Operations, while also creating a generalist program‑management bench that incubates new initiatives. Success involves setting metrics, reporting to product leadership, coaching direct reports, and translating manual processes into automated tooling. The position suits candidates with more than a decade of program‑management or business‑operations experience at high‑growth tech firms, at least five years of people‑management experience (including managing managers), a proven record of building programs from inception to scale, and familiarity with commercial launches, billing, pricing or marketplace platforms. Strong prioritisation, cross‑functional influence and clear communication are essential.
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. We are seeking an experienced Operations Manager to lead Product Program Management, the central program management function in Anthropic's Product organization. This team turns the company's hardest cross-functional obligations into programs that run: it stands up the strategic programs Anthropic needs to unblock growth, then runs the scaled operations behind them so partner teams can focus on building and selling Claude. You'll lead managers and program managers across Commercialization Operations, Community and Executive Escalations Operations, and Marketplace Operations, and you'll build a generalist program management bench that incubates new programs for the Product organization. The ideal candidate combines strategic judgment about what the company should take on with the operational rigor to make those programs run at scale. About Anthropic Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our customers and for society as a whole. Responsibilities Set the team's charter and priorities: decide which cross-functional programs Product Program Management takes on and which it scales Build strong partnerships with the teams Product Program Management supports across Product, Engineering, GTM, Finance, Legal, and more, so programs reflect their priorities and they see the team as a trusted extension of their own Hire, lead, and develop a high-performing organization of managers and program managers across Product Program Management, including: Commercialization Operations, which runs commercial launches for new products that will be billed or sold, plus programs like credits and promotions, trusted access, and local pricing, in partnership with Finance, Billing Engineering, and GTM Community and Executive Escalations Operations, which handles social listening and escalations and turns them into product fixes Marketplace Operations, which runs review and publishing for Anthropic's MCP Directory and plugin ecosystem Build a small generalist program management team that incubates new cross-functional programs for the Product organization, runs them until they're stable, and then either matures them into their own pillar or shifts them to a long-term owner Define success metrics for each program and report on them through regular business reviews with Product leadership Provide thoughtful coaching and feedback to your direct reports, and partner with them on their career development and growth You may be a good fit if you have 12+ years of experience in program management, business operations, or a related field, ideally at a high-growth technology company 5+ years of people management experience, including managing managers A track record of building programs from 0 to 1 and then scaling them into durable operations Experience with commercial launches, billing and pricing operations, or marketplace and developer platform operations (more than one a plus) Strong judgment and execution on prioritization: you can stack-rank competing asks from Product, Engineering, GTM, and Finance into one roadmap and explain the tradeoffs Experience partnering with engineering teams to replace manual operational work with tooling and automation Excellent cross-functional influence with stakeholders who don't report to you, including executives Clear, concise written communication: you can brief an executive in three sentences and write a process doc the next person can run from Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action in a fast-moving environment with many priorities at once Excitement about building the operational backbone that lets Anthropic's products launch and scale safely 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 — $365,000 USD Logistics Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position 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
| Role | Manager, Product Program Management |
|---|---|
| Company | Anthropic |
| Location | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY |
| Type | full-time |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Posted | 2026-10-06 |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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