Technical Program Manager, API Platform

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

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 workstreams 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.

Responsibilities

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

You may be a good fit if you

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 workstreams 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

Logistics

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 ma …