Community & Executive Escalations Program Manager

Anthropic Anthropic · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Product Management, Support, & Operations

This role is a founding member of a new pillar of Operations, focusing on Community & Executive Escalations. The Program Manager will be responsible for managing high-stakes user issues that surface on social media or through executive channels. This includes monitoring public conversations, triaging escalations, opening and managing incidents, and running them to resolution with cross-functional partners. The role involves standing up the function from scratch and operating it day-to-day, requiring strong judgment, written communication, and a bias toward action.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own incidents and executive escalations end-to-end during your coverage hours
  2. Actively monitor public social channels for brand mentions, surfacing potential escalations and triaging them against defined criteria
  3. Communicate crisply with internal stakeholders: brief executives on live situations, give Comms partners the facts they need, and keep incident channels useful and current
  4. Write clear post-incident reports that capture what happened, what we did, and what should change—so the next escalation is easier than the last
  5. Help iterate on the team's playbooks, response templates, escalation criteria, and SOPs based on what you learn running real cases

Skills

Required

  • Community operations
  • Trust & safety operations
  • Escalations management
  • Customer support escalations
  • Incident management
  • Executive communication
  • Written communication
  • Cross-functional coordination
  • Social listening tooling
  • Pattern detection
  • Ambiguity tolerance
  • Bias toward action

Nice to have

  • Consumer platform experience
  • Developer platform experience

What the JD emphasized

  • 6+ years of experience in community operations, trust & safety operations, escalations, customer support escalations, or a related front-line operations role
  • Direct, hands-on experience running incidents or escalations
  • Excellent judgment under pressure
  • Sharp written communication
  • Comfort coordinating across functions in real time and influencing partners without positional authority
  • Familiarity with social listening tooling
  • A pattern-detection mindset
  • Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action