Program Manager, Accounting Operations & Strategy

Anthropics 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 is seeking a Program Manager to join our Accounting organization and help it run as one global team. Accounting is scaling at an unprecedented pace across multiple hubs and the goals rhythms programs and people that make up the team need to stay connected as we this role you will own that connective tissue: the annual goal-setting cycle the leadership teams operating cadence org-wide events and internal communications and the programs that make a distributed team feel like one.

You will partner with Accounting leadership the People team Finance Systems and hub leads. This is a hands-on role with a lot of range: part chief of staff part program manager part culture builder.

• Run the annual goal setting process and the reporting that tracks progress against those goals.
• Look at how the org actually operates (meetings handoffs planning cycles decision making) and fix what isnt working.
• Maintain one org-wide planning calendar that shows close audit and team milestones alongside company-wide and team events so leaders can see the pressure points and plan around them.
• Build and maintain a simple set of org health metrics (attrition engagement scores hiring pipeline training completion survey trends) and report on them regularly.

• Run our extended leadership team (XLT) program including agendas meetings follow-ups and action items.
• Own planning and agenda for the annual offsite and run the quarterly team all-hands.
• Write the internal updates: a regular team newsletter plus talking points when leadership needs to explain a change to the whole org.

• Coordinate projects across the org that support employee experience programs.
• Partner with the People team to roll out training and development programs for Accounting.
• Review team survey results identify the themes and build action plans to address the feedback. Follow through and report back to the team.
• Run hub programs including visit and rotation programs local hub events and meeting norms that work across time zones so we feel like one global team.
• Run recognition and team rituals: wins milestones anniversaries and peer recognition especially across hubs.

• Support contractor management including onboarding tracking and coordination with the right partners.
• Keep the teams knowledge base current: wiki org charts role descriptions and key process docs.
• Keep the team calendar accurate so everyone knows whats coming.

• 7 years in program management operations chief of staff or strategy roles. Experience inside a finance or accounting org is a plus but not required.
• A track record of running recurring programs end to end and getting people to follow through without formal authority.
• Good judgment about what matters and what doesnt. You can handle a lot of moving pieces without dropping them.
• Clear direct writing. You can brief a senior leader in a few sentences.
• Comfort with confidential information and sensitive people topics.
• Experience supporting distributed or global teams.
• Youre organized but you also know when a process is getting in the way and should be simplified.

Minimum education: Bachelors 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 arent 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 youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were 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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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. Were 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.

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 aboutour policy for using AI in our application process.