Head of Protective Services

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

As part of the Anthropic security department, the Global Safety, Intelligence and Security team assesses, identifies, and mitigates physical safety and security risks in a manner that best protects Anthropic's people, assets, operations, and reputation. The Protective Services Program Manager will be responsible for developing, implementing, and managing comprehensive protection strategies for company executives and other key personnel as well as overseeing our vendor executive protection program. This role requires a sophisticated understanding of risk management, proven leadership experience, excellent communication skills, and the ability to operate with discretion in a dynamic technology environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement comprehensive executive protection programs and protocols

• Conduct thorough risk assessments and develop mitigation strategies for executive travel, events, and daily operations

• Manage and coordinate executive protection team members and vendor relationships

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with executives, their staff, and key stakeholders

• Create and maintain standard operating procedures for executive protection operations

• Coordinate with various internal teams including Global Security, Travel, and Executive Admin teams

• Utilize protective intelligence gathering and analysis to inform security operations

• Manage program budgets and resource allocation

• Provide regular reporting on program effectiveness and incident metrics

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 10+ years of experience in executive protection, with at least 5 years in program management

• Possess strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact professionally with C-suite executives and their staff

• Have experience building from the ground up or scaling executive protection programs in corporate environments

• Demonstrate excellent judgment and decision-making abilities in high-pressure situations

• Are adaptable and can maintain composure in dynamic, fast-paced environments

• Have strong project management and organizational skills

Strong candidates may also have the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Security Management, Criminal Justice, or related field

• Advanced certifications in Executive Protection or Security Management

• Military or law enforcement background

• Experience in technology sector security operations

• International protective operations experience

• Proven track record of building relationships with law enforcement and other public sector security agencies

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

The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.

Annual Salary:
$275,000—$340,000 USD

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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

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