Tech Lead Manager, Developer Platform Product Data Scientist

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

As part of our growing Data Science and Analytics team, you will play an instrumental role in our company’s mission of building safe and beneficial artificial intelligence by driving data-informed decision making across our organization. You bring experience from high-bar teams and are eager to help shape the norms and best practices of a growing data science team as Anthropic continues to scale. In this unique company, technology, and moment in history, your work will be critical to informing our strategy as we deploy safe, frontier AI at scale to the world.

What it asks for · 10

• Have extensive experience in data science, including leading analytics for a product area at significant scale
• Have 3+ years managing data science teams, including setting team direction and developing senior data scientists
• Have been a trusted partner to senior product and business leaders on API or developer-facing products, with clear examples of changing a roadmap or high-stakes decision
• Bring strong product sense and business judgment for developer and B2B products, including the ability to frame the right question and take a position with incomplete information
• Have deep expertise in experimental design, causal inference, and statistical modeling at high scale, with enough fluency in Python and SQL to stay hands-on and guide others’ technical work
• Communicate clearly in writing and in presentations, including to executive audiences
• Have a bias for action and thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where you must create clarity and drive progress
• Care about the company’s mission of building helpful, honest, and harmless AI
• Strong candidates may also have:
• Experience with AI/ML products, large language models, or developer tools in the AI/ML ecosystem

What the job covers

• Act as a strategic thought partner to Developer Platform product leads, helping shape product strategy, roadmap priorities, and the major bets the team makes
• Set the data science agenda for Developer Platform, deciding where the Product Data Science team can have the most impact and what it should deprioritize
• Manage and develop a small team of Product Data Scientists, coaching them to move from answering questions to shaping decisions
• Frame the most important and ambiguous questions facing the platform, from how developers and enterprises adopt it to how AI agents are being built and deployed at scale, size the opportunities, and make clear recommendations, including when they challenge the current direction
• Define how Developer Platform measures success, establishing the core metrics and measurement frameworks that align teams and leadership on what matters
• Set the standard for experimentation and causal inference across Developer Platform, including where API and B2B products make clean experiments hard, and personally lead the highest-stakes analyses
• Turn complex analyses into clear narratives and recommendations that drive decisions with senior leadership and cross-functional partners, including go-to-market teams
• Establish foundational data practices and shape the analytics infrastructure Developer Platform needs to support rapid iteration and decision-making as our products grow

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• product17×
• data12×
• data science7×
• developer platform7×
• decisions5×
• scale5×
• lead4×
• partner4×
• senior4×
• shape4×
• analytics3×
• api3×
• bring3×
• business3×
• clear3×
• data scientists3×

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