Technical Program Manager, Strategic Deals

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.

About the Role

As a Technical Program Manager for Strategic Deals, you'll drive complex technical implementations for our most critical partnerships and customer integrations. You'll work at the intersection of business development, engineering, and product to ensure successful delivery of high-stakes technical initiatives that shape Anthropic's growth and strategic direction.

This role requires deep technical expertise combined with exceptional program management skills to navigate ambiguous, cross-functional projects that often involve multiple external stakeholders, custom technical solutions, and accelerated timelines.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Complex Technical Implementations: Drive end-to-end delivery of technical solutions for strategic partnerships, from initial scoping through production deployment
• Cross-functional Coordination: Orchestrate efforts across engineering, product, sales, legal, security, and external partner teams to ensure aligned execution
• Technical Architecture & Design: Partner with engineering teams to define technical requirements, system architectures, and integration approaches for custom solutions
• Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain relationships with both internal teams and external partners, serving as the primary technical point of contact
• Risk Management: Identify technical risks, dependencies, and constraints early; develop mitigation strategies and contingency plans
• Infrastructure & Scale Planning: Work with infrastructure teams to ensure adequate capacity, performance, and reliability for large-scale deployments
• Documentation & Knowledge Transfer: Create comprehensive technical documentation and ensure smooth handoffs between teams
• Executive Communication: Provide clear status updates and technical insights to leadership, translating complex technical concepts for diverse audiences

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have several years of experience in technical program management, with a proven track record of delivering complex, cross-company technical initiatives
• Have deep technical expertise in distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, or ML/AI systems
• Are comfortable diving into technical details while maintaining strategic perspective on business outcomes
• Have experience working with external partners on technical integrations, including API design, security reviews, and SLA negotiations
• Excel at navigating ambiguity and bringing structure to undefined problems
• Can influence and drive consensus across multiple stakeholder groups without formal authority
• Have exceptional communication skills and can context-switch between technical deep-dives and executive briefings
• Are experienced with cloud platforms and understand enterprise-scale infrastructure requirements
• Have worked in fast-paced environments where priorities shift quickly based on business needs
• Are passionate about AI technology and its potential impact on businesses and society

The expected salary range for this position is:

Annual Salary:$290,000—$365,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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 successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed.  Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.