Product Manager - Safeguards Rare Harms

4w4 weeks ago

Anthropic

San Francisco, US · Full-time · $305,000 – $385,000

About this role

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.

The Safeguards team is at the forefront of protecting our users from the risks of powerful AIs as well as ethical, technical, and social risks from the use of generative AI. The Safeguards team builds protections for new AI features enabled by the research teams and protects new products and surfaces developed by our product teams.

As a Product Manager for the Safeguards team, you will own the ideation, design, development and deployment of Safeguards systems and relevant product UX. You will work closely with our research and product teams to develop detections, evals, interventions, and tools to measure and mitigate deployment and user risks.

We are looking for a product manager who is deeply committed to making AI safe and beneficial for humanity. You are aware of the risks and are committed to working with experts and coming up with ideas for Anthropic to implement. You thrive in rapidly moving and ambiguous environments.

Requirements

5+ years in product management with focus on fast problem understanding, building roadmaps, and getting into details on data, detection, interventions, infrastructure, tools, and evals.
Ability to make technical tradeoff decisions; experience working with policy experts, AI/ML research engineers, and software engineering teams to design 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, and user impact.
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.
Experience planning, building, launching, and measuring new products/systems in a zero to one environment.

Responsibilities

Determine how to build in safety by design upstream and leverage downstream defenses for Anthropic's frontier models, AI products, and customers on different surfaces.
Write safety evals and communicate externally about safety.
Drive impact via ruthless prioritization by clearly defining problems, solution options, and tradeoffs.
Align and 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, and blindspots to help inform future project planning.