Technical Program Manager, Security - Detection & Response

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 a Staff Technical Program Manager for Security – Detection & Response, you will define and execute company critical security programs that protect Anthropic's most sensitive assets, people, and infrastructure. You will lead strategic initiatives spanning insider risk, security observability, threat detection, and incident response programs that are essential to Anthropic's ability to meet its Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP) commitments and maintain the trust of our stakeholders.

This is a senior level TPM role requiring executive presence, strategic vision, and the ability to drive transformational programs across Security Engineering, Infrastructure, Research, and cross-functional partners. You will be responsible for building the programmatic foundations of Anthropic's detection and response capabilities while mentoring senior TPMs and shaping the future of security program management at the company.

This role sits within the Security TPM team, aligned to the Detection & Response security organization, and reports to the Security TPM Lead.

Responsibilities:

• Own the strategic portfolio for Detection & Response programs: Define and drive the strategy, roadmap, and execution of insider risk, observability, and threat detection initiatives that are critical to company security posture and RSP compliance

• Lead company wide security programs with executive impact: Manage programs that span multiple organizations, require significant change management, and directly affect Anthropic's ability to detect, investigate, and respond to security threats

• Build and scale detection and response program infrastructure: Develop program charters, governance frameworks, success metrics, and communication strategies for nascent and evolving security domains

• Partner with Security Engineering to drive technical program strategy for security observability: Define requirements and coordinate implementation of security telemetry, logging, and monitoring capabilities across Anthropic's infrastructure

• Lead insider risk program execution: Develop and manage programs that address insider threat detection, investigation workflows, and prevention controls while balancing privacy, legal, and operational considerations

• Collaborate with senior leadership and executives: Communicate program vision, risks, and progress with executive presence; influence strategic priorities and secure alignment across Security, Infrastructure, Legal, and Research leadership

• Mentor and develop senior TPMs: Provide strategic guidance and coaching to TPMs across the Security team, building a culture of excellence and developing future leaders

• Coordinate incident investigation and response efforts: Lead cross-functional coordination during security incidents, ensuring effective communication, stakeholder alignment, and post-incident improvements

• Partner on AI-driven security innovation: Collaborate with teams exploring agentic AI applications in security workflows, helping translate emerging capabilities into executable programs

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have:

• 15+ years of experience in the cybersecurity field, with at least 5+ years leading large-scale Security Engineering programs, encompassing a broad understanding of cyber threats, defense mechanisms, and the cybersecurity landscape

• Technical expertise in detection and response technologies including Splunk, Detection Engineering, Detection as Code, Infrastructure as Code, and Security Operations

• Technical background in cybersecurity methodologies with focus on threat intelligence, detection, response, and prevention

• Familiarity working on detection capabilities for AI Lab organizations

• Proven experience as a Technical Program Manager or similar role in a cybersecurity or technology-focused environment, with a track record of leading complex, company-wide programs to successful completion

• Executive communication skills with demonstrated ability to influence decisions at the senior leadership and C-suite level

• Experience leading incident investigation efforts and effectively coordinating communications across technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Ability to manage highly ambiguous problems and navigate challenges to achieve program objectives in a fast-paced, evolving environment

• Strong collaboration skills with proven ability to partner across diverse technical stakeholders including Security Engineering, Infrastructure, Legal, HR, and Research teams

Strong Candidates May Also Have:

• Experience building insider risk or insider threat programs from the ground up

• Background in security operations center (SOC) leadership or detection engineering management

• Experience with security programs in AI/ML research environments

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP) and their intersection with detection and response capabilities

• Prior technical experience as a security engineer, detection engineer, or incident responder

• Experience with security aspects of cloud infrastructure and distributed systems

Deadline to Apply: None, applications will be received on a rolling basis.

The annual compensation range for this role is 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. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity and benefits.

Annual Salary:
$365,000—$435,000 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.

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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