Anthropic · Operations · Staff+ · Posted 2026-08-07
GSOC Response & Policy Program Specialist
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $180k–230k base
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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
We are seeking a GSOC Response & Policy Program Specialist to define how Anthropic's Global Security Operations Center detects, responds to, and recovers from incidents affecting our people, facilities, and operations.
You will write the GSOC plan and policy: the functions, the severity matrix, the communication templates, and the service levels. You will build global incident-specific response protocols, covering incidents that arise across different regions and countries, and turn each one into two playbooks, one that is built on actionability for the operator on the floor and one for the business facing for the partner receiving the call. You will design a simple, scalable on-call rotation and call tree so Incident Commander coverage never depends on any one person. You will take this body of work through Legal, HR, and Communications, secure signoff from senior leadership, and then train and roll it out.
You will assist in responding to incidents. This role will also coordinate the handoff to the appropriate Incident Commander as an incident escalates, and acts as the standing liaison between GSOC and Crisis Management. Your job is to turn all of this into a written, approved, and actionable standard that the GSOC and the business both run on, and to keep it current as the program matures.
This is a builder's role in a program that is scaling globally. The scope covers incidents on site, off site, and during travel, including natural disasters, across every region Anthropic operates in.
Important Note: In this position, you may be exposed to graphic and explicit content, including material of a violent or psychologically disturbing nature.
This role carries an on-call requirement and after-hours availability. The GSOC Response & Policy Specialist is expected to respond to threats as they arise, including evenings, weekends, and holidays.
Responsibilities
Author the GSOC plan and policy, including the documented set of GSOC functions, the incident severity matrix, communication templates, and service level agreements for response timing
Design global incident- and event-specific response protocols, and produce the corresponding GSOC operator playbooks and business-facing playbooks
Define and obtain approval for the tooling and channels used for incident response and management, and for the distinct path used for information-only employee advisories
Partner with Legal, Communications, HR, and Employee Relations to align on notification thresholds and obligations before an incident occurs, not during one
Design and formalize a simple, scalable on-call rotation and call tree for GSOC incident response personnel, so Incident Commander coverage does not depend on any single person's availability
Drive policy socialization and secure approval from senior leadership
Build and deliver the training and rollout that puts the policy into practice
You will assist in responding to incidents. This role will also coordinate the handoff to the appropriate Incident Commander as an incident escalates, and acts as the standing liaison between GSOC and Crisis Management.
Act as the standing liaison between GSOC and Crisis Management, and partner with Crisis Management on GSOC service design
Run after-action reviews and tabletop exercises, and fold what they surface back into the policy
Measure whether the standard is being met, and report on it
You may be a good fit if you:
Have 8+ years of professional experience in GSOCs, security operations, emergency or crisis management, business continuity, incident command, or a closely related discipline
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