Product Manager, Safeguards (verticals)

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

Product Manager for Anthropic's Safeguards team, focusing on building and deploying systems to ensure AI safety and prevent misuse. This role involves ideation, design, development, and deployment of safeguards, working closely with research and product teams to create detections, evals, interventions, and tools for risk mitigation. The PM will drive strategy, prioritize features, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and develop metrics to assess performance and inform future planning.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. Ability to write safety evals and communicate externally about safety.
  3. 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.
  4. Align & collaborate with policy, enforcement, research, engineering and cross functional stakeholders.
  5. Understand the AI landscape and ecosystem to plan for mitigation of deployment risks of increasingly powerful models and determined adversaries.

Skills

Required

  • Ability to make technical tradeoff decisions
  • 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 have

  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • safety systems
  • Safeguards concerns
  • safety evals
  • mitigation of deployment risks
  • evaluate risks
  • zero to one environment

Other signals

  • Safeguards team builds protections for new AI features
  • protects new products and surfaces developed by our product teams
  • develop detections, evals, interventions, and tools to measure and mitigate deployment and user risks
  • build in safety by design upstream and leverage downstream defenses
  • write safety evals and communicate externally about safety
  • Understand the AI landscape and ecosystem to plan for mitigation of deployment risks
  • Lead the development of metrics to understand the area, performance, blindspots