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
Anthropic’s Global Safety, Intelligence, and Security (GSIS) team is responsible for protecting our people, facilities, and operations worldwide. The function spans intelligence, executive protection, investigations, travel and event security, security technology, security operations, environmental health and safety, and crisis management — and it’s growing quickly as Anthropic’s footprint, public profile, and threat surface all expand.
We’re looking for a senior operational leader to own the day-to-day resilience of every Anthropic location worldwide. Reporting to the Head of GSIS, you’ll lead three tightly connected functions — physical security operations, environmental health and safety, and event security — across a global office portfolio that includes specialized environments such as research labs. You’ll manage a growing team of practitioners and an existing EHS program, and you’ll be the person leadership turns to when something needs to be safe, secure, and operational, every day, in every location.
This is an unapologetically operational role. You’ll set the standards, run the programs, manage the vendors, own the metrics, and answer for outcomes when something goes wrong at 2am in a different time zone. You’ll partner closely with Real Estate and Workplace, People, Legal, IT, and the rest of the GSIS leadership team — and you’ll work alongside the Head of Protective Services on high-profile events where the threat picture and the operational footprint converge. The right person is equally comfortable writing an OSHA-compliant program from scratch, walking a new office build with a contractor, briefing an executive on event-day security posture, and coaching a guard force supervisor through an incident debrief.
Responsibilities
Lead global physical security operations
- Own physical security strategy, standards, and execution across all Anthropic offices globally — including access control, intrusion detection, visitor management, guard force operations, and after-hours response
- Manage the contract guard force vendors end-to-end: selection, SLAs, performance management, and renewal — holding partners to a standard worthy of the company they’re protecting
- Build and maintain global physical security standards that scale with new office openings, ensuring consistency without ignoring the realities of local jurisdictions, building stock, and threat environments
- Partner with Real Estate and Workplace on new site selection, build-outs, and retrofits to ensure security and life-safety requirements are designed in, not bolted on
- Own incident response for physical security events and lead after-action reviews that drive concrete program improvements
Run a true Environmental Health and Safety program
- Lead Anthropic’s global EHS program, ensuring compliance with OSHA and equivalent international workplace safety regulations across all locations
- Oversee EHS for specialized environments including research labs — covering hazard assessment, chemical hygiene where applicable, ergonomics, emergency action plans, and incident reporting and investigation
- Manage and develop the existing EHS program, and grow the function as the company’s footprint expands
- Own workplace safety training, recordkeeping, and the evidence base needed for audits, insurance renewals, and regulatory inquiries
Own event security globally
- Lead security planning and execution for major Anthropic events — both internal (all-hands, offsites, milestone gatherings) and external-facing (launches, recruiting events, public-facing convenings)
- Partner closely with the Protective Services team on events involving senior leadership or elevated threat profiles, ensuring clean handoffs and unified command
- Build a repeatable event security operating model — site surveys, threat assessments, staffing plans, communications protocols, run-of-show integration — so every event clears the same bar without reinventing the playbook
- Manage event security vendors and contracted staff across regions
Lead and grow the team
- Manage a growing team of physical security, EHS, and event security professionals — hiring, developing, and retaining practitioners who can operate independently across regions and time zones
- Set performance expectations, run a real operating cadence, and create the kind of team where people want to build careers
- Sit on the GSIS leadership team alongside peers leading Intelligence/Investigations/Insider Risk, Protective Services, Public Sector Security, and other pillars — contributing to overall function strategy and cross-pillar initiatives
You may be a good fit if you
- Have 15 years of relevant experience
- Have substantial leadership experience running physical security operations at a multi-site or global organization, with direct accountability for outcomes — not just oversight
- Have owned or directly managed an OSHA-regulated EHS program, including for specialized environments such as labs, R&D facilities, or similar
- Have led security planning and execution for major events, including external-facing events with elevated visibility or threat profiles
- Have managed contract guard forces at scale and know how to get real performance out of a vendor relationship
- Are an experienced people manager who has built and developed teams of security and safety practitioners
- Bring strong judgment under pressure — you can make the right call when information is incomplete and the clock is running
- Write and communicate clearly across audiences, from frontline officers to executive leadership
- Care about Anthropic’s mission and the unique resilience considerations that come with building frontier AI systems
Strong candidates may also
- Hold relevant credentials such as CSP, ASP, CHMM, CPP, PSP, or equivalent
- Have worked at a high-growth technology company, frontier research organization, or similarly high-scrutiny environment
- Have stood up physical security or EHS programs in new offices or new countries from the ground up
- Have direct experience with lab safety, chemical hygiene plans, or research environment EHS
- Have led security operations during a significant incident, crisis, or sustained threat event
- Have managed third-party security and EHS providers across multiple regions and regulatory regimes
Logistics
- This is a hybrid role and can be based near any Anthropic office
- Approximately 25% travel expected to support global operations, site assessments, and major events
This role is for operators who take pride in the unglamorous work of keeping people safe and operations running — if you want ownership, scope, and a team worth building, we’d like to meet you.
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be received on a rolling basis.
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:
$275,000—$340,000 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 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.
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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. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process