Manager, Product Program Management
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Product Management, Support, & Operations · listed October 6, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Manager
Experience asked
5–12 years
Where
Hybrid
Requirements listed
10
Length
1,551 words
In the posting’s own words
Provide thoughtful coaching and feedback to your direct reports, and partner with them on their career development and growth
What it asks for · 10
- 12+ years of experience in program management, business operations, or a related field, ideally at a high-growth technology company
- 5+ years of people management experience, including managing managers
- A track record of building programs from 0 to 1 and then scaling them into durable operations
- Experience with commercial launches, billing and pricing operations, or marketplace and developer platform operations (more than one a plus)
- Strong judgment and execution on prioritization: you can stack-rank competing asks from Product, Engineering, GTM, and Finance into one roadmap and explain the tradeoffs
- Experience partnering with engineering teams to replace manual operational work with tooling and automation
- Excellent cross-functional influence with stakeholders who don't report to you, including executives
- Clear, concise written communication: you can brief an executive in three sentences and write a process doc the next person can run from
- Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action in a fast-moving environment with many priorities at once
- Excitement about building the operational backbone that lets Anthropic's products launch and scale safely
What the job covers
- Set the team's charter and priorities: decide which cross-functional programs Product Program Management takes on and which it scales
- Build strong partnerships with the teams Product Program Management supports across Product, Engineering, GTM, Finance, Legal, and more, so programs reflect their priorities and they see the team as a trusted extension of their own
- Hire, lead, and develop a high-performing organization of managers and program managers across Product Program Management, including:
- Commercialization Operations, which runs commercial launches for new products that will be billed or sold, plus programs like credits and promotions, trusted access, and local pricing, in partnership with Finance, Billing Engineering, and GTM
- Community and Executive Escalations Operations, which handles social listening and escalations and turns them into product fixes
- Marketplace Operations, which runs review and publishing for Anthropic's MCP Directory and plugin ecosystem
- Build a small generalist program management team that incubates new cross-functional programs for the Product organization, runs them until they're stable, and then either matures them into their own pillar or shifts them to a long-term owner
- Define success metrics for each program and report on them through regular business reviews with Product leadership
- Provide thoughtful coaching and feedback to your direct reports, and partner with them on their career development and growth
Tools and skills named
Operations & finance
- Program management10×
Go to market
- Go-to-market6×
- Partnerships2×
Ways of working
- Cross-functional6×
- Mentorship2×
Product & design
- Roadmap2×
Words the posting leans on
- program24×
- product20×
- operations14×
- program management10×
- engineering8×
- experience8×
- runs8×
- executive6×
- finance6×
- managers6×
- priorities6×
- product program6×
- report6×
- billing4×
- build4×
- building4×
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