Product Manager, Safeguards Rare Harms

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 forward, clarity on both business & technical tradeoffs and accordingly 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.

Nice-to-Haves

• Deep technical expertise in development, deployment and measurement of Safeguards systems.
• Deep commitment to making AI safe and beneficial for humanity.