Product Manager, Safeguards Generalist-2
Product Manager on Anthropic's Safeguards team owning ideation, design, development and deployment of safety systems, detections, evals, interventions and UX to protect users from risks of frontier AI models across platforms. Requires deep technical expertise in safeguards, 5+ years PM experience, and ability to collaborate with research, policy, and engineering teams in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Determine how to build in safety by design upstream and leverage downstream defenses for Anthropic’s frontier models, AI products, customers on different surfaces (Claude.ai, 1P API, external Cloud providers).
- Write safety evals and communicate externally about safety.
- Drive impact via ruthless prioritization by clearly defining problems, solution options, clarity on both business & technical tradeoffs and clear requirements toward MVP vs. ideal state.
- Align & collaborate with policy, enforcement, research, engineering and cross functional stakeholders.
- Understand the AI landscape and ecosystem to plan for mitigation of deployment risks of increasingly powerful models and determined adversaries.
- Lead the development of metrics to understand the area, performance, blindspots to help inform future project planning.
Minimum Qualifications
- Ability to make technical tradeoff decisions; ideally with experience working across policy experts, AI/ML research engineers and software engineering teams to design and build state of the art safety systems.
- Strong user understanding of how our products are used, their Safeguards concerns and how we provide the best solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to build product and engineering strategy across multiple cross-functional teams for a rapidly changing space.
- Demonstrated experience in designing and building metrics to evaluate risks, system performance, user impact and making crisp tradeoffs.
- Very strong ability to navigate, and prioritize amidst rapidly changing product specs, and to flex into different domains to bring clarity and execute.
- Evidence of exercising judgment and decision making in ambiguous situations.
- 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 in written and verbal communication.
- Think creatively about the risks and benefits of new technologies, and think beyond past checklists and playbooks.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years in product management with a focus on fast problem understanding, building roadmaps with tractable progress, ability to get into the details on data, detection & interventions, infrastructure & tools, and/or evals.
Compensation
Annual Salary: $305,000—$385,000 USD
Education
- 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
Skills
Product Management, Safety Systems, AI/ML, Metrics Development, Risk Evaluation, Technical Tradeoffs, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Roadmapping, Evals, Data Analysis
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