Technical Program Manager, API Platform

Technical Program Manager, API Platform

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY

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.

Anthropic's API is the foundation that customers, developers, and our own products build on, and it is scaling fast. We're hiring a Technical Program Manager to drive the scaling and core efficiency programs for the API stack, working at the intersection of the API and the infrastructure it runs on (compute, databases, networking, and inference).

Today this work spans many teams and many simultaneous programs, with no single person focused on cohesion across them. You'll be the center: the person who connects isolated work streams into one coherent roadmap, makes cross-org dependencies visible before they become blockers, and creates clarity on who owns which decisions. Success looks like an API stack that scales efficiently and predictably, with programs that land because someone is accountable for the whole picture.

• Drive scaling and core efficiency programs for the API stack from architectural direction through sequenced, deliverable execution

• Run multiple large programs simultaneously across infrastructure, networking, and the API layer

• Act as the connective tissue between API, infrastructure, database, networking, and inference teams, owning cross-org dependencies end to end

• Establish decision-making clarity: who owns what, where trade-offs get made, and how isolated streams roll up into one program view

• Surface risks, progress, and trade-offs to engineering leadership with the right altitude and cadence

• Have 7+ years of technical program management experience, with a track record of successfully delivering complex, cross-functional programs

• Have experience with API platforms, distributed systems, and core infrastructure programs and can engage meaningfully with the engineers who design and operate them

• Have driven scaling, performance, or efficiency programs for high-volume production systems, including the tradeoffs across performance, reliability, and cost

• Have coordinated programs spanning many partner organizations, managing cross-team dependencies, commitments, and escalations at the working level

• Are highly organized and can manage multiple parallel work streams effectively across distributed teams

• Thrive in unstructured environments with a knack for bringing order to chaos and creating clarity in ambiguous situations, including where decision ownership is unclear

• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority

• Are passionate about Anthropic's mission and interested in the challenges of operating AI infrastructure safely and reliably

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:

$365,000 - $435,000 USD

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.

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