Technical Program Manager, Compute Partnerships

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 Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our customers and for society as a whole. Our interdisciplinary team has experience across ML, physics, policy, business and product.

About the Role 

We are seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager to own and drive programs that are critical to securing and managing the compute resources Anthropic needs to remain at the frontier of AI development. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role that will be essential to Anthropic's continued growth and success. This role sits at the intersection of corporate development, finance, and technical infrastructure, managing our strategic relationships with major cloud providers like Amazon and Google, while also helping to establish new compute partnerships.

Securing adequate compute resources is existential for Anthropic's ability to develop cutting-edge AI models. This role is critical to ensuring we have the computational capacity needed for training our next-generation models while managing partnerships worth billions of dollars. You'll be working on initiatives that directly enable Anthropic's mission to develop safe, beneficial AI systems at the frontier of what's possible.

You will work closely with senior leadership (including our executive team) and engineering executives to manage billion-dollar-scale compute contracts and ensure we meet critical milestones.

This role is unique in combining strategic partnership management with rigorous program execution. You will be responsible for tracking milestones across multiple simultaneous compute deals, preventing critical deliverables from falling through the cracks, and ensuring clear accountability across cross-functional teams. The role requires someone who can bring order to high-stakes, fast-moving situations. You may also have the opportunity to eventually lead a team of TPMs in this space as the quantity and complexity of our compute partnerships grow.

Job responsibilities:

• Serve as the "glue" across Finance, Legal, Corporate Development, and Engineering teams to track and drive accountability for critical milestones in our compute partnership contracts and negotiations
• Manage ongoing relationships with Amazon and Google for our current compute contracts, including evaluating incremental chip offers and contract modifications
• Lead program management for bringing on entirely new compute providers, managing complex cross-functional workstreams from contract negotiation through technical implementation
• Track state and ensure accountability across multiple simultaneous compute deals worth hundreds of millions to billions of dollars
• Interface regularly with C-level executives, driving critical decisions and keeping them informed
• Develop and implement systems to prevent critical milestones from being missed due to diffused accountability
• Coordinate across business teams (Finance, Legal, Corporate Development) and technical teams (Engineering, Infrastructure) to drive effective decision-making
• Establish frameworks for managing compute partnerships that can scale as we grow the quantity and complexity of our partnerships
• Facilitate communication between technical stakeholders and business stakeholders, ensuring technical perspectives are properly represented in strategic discussions
• Build scalable processes to reduce the "all hours" nature of current operations by improving proactive planning and decision-making

You might be a good fit if you have: 

• 10+ years of experience in technical program management with a track record of managing high-stakes, strategic initiatives
• Executive presence and the ability to effectively interact with C-level executives 
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to "wrangle" diverse perspectives and drive alignment across technical and business teams
• Experience managing complex external partnerships, including navigating corporate development and contract negotiation processes
• The ability to quickly understand and communicate technical concepts (particularly around compute infrastructure) without needing to be a deep technical expert
• A track record of bringing order to chaotic, high-pressure situations and establishing accountability where it previously didn't exist
• Excellent judgment about when to escalate issues and how to facilitate effective decision-making at the highest levels
• The ability to work in a fast-paced environment where critical deadlines cannot be missed
• Exceptional communication skills to translate between technical teams (like inference engineers) and business teams (like Finance and Legal)
• High potential for growth into a leadership role managing a team of TPMs focused on compute partnerships
• Comfort with significant in-office presence (50%+) in San Francisco to collaborate closely with the core team

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. 

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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.

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