Technical Program Manager, Databases

Anthropic$365K — $435K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of technical program management experience
  • Familiarity with database, storage, or core infrastructure programs
  • Experience managing vendor or cloud provider relationships
  • Knowledge of cross-region, multi-cloud, or hybrid cloud infrastructure preferred
  • Strong organizational skills to manage multiple workstreams across teams
  • Ability to thrive in unstructured environments and create clarity because of ambiguity
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Own the roadmap and execution of database infrastructure strategies
  • Coordinate with a diverse set of partners, including vendors and internal teams
  • Manage relationships and commitments with external vendors and hyperscalers
  • Drive dependencies and trade-offs for critical database operations
  • Create program documentation like roadmaps and risk assessments
  • Facilitate technical decision-making by uniting stakeholders and resolving issues

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available for candidates
  • Location-based hybrid work policy
  • Encouragement for applicants from underrepresented groups
  • Emphasis on safe and reliable AI infrastructure
Full Job Description
About the Role

Anthropic's databases underpin every service the company runs: Claude, our APIs, and the internal systems behind them. We're hiring a Technical Program Manager to drive the strategy and execution that takes this infrastructure to the next level of availability and scale. The mandate centers on three interlocking strategies:
  • Cross-region: how our databases achieve resilience and locality across geographic regions
  • Multi-cloud: how we run and operate databases across multiple hyperscalers
  • Private, public, and hybrid cloud: how our database footprint spans owned, cloud, and mixed environments

Success in this role is a highly available, 24x7x365 database infrastructure that every Anthropic service can depend on, across regions, clouds, and deployment models.
Responsibilities
  • Own the roadmap and execution across all three strategy pillars, turning architectural direction into sequenced, deliverable programs
  • Coordinate across an unusually broad set of partners: database vendors, hyperscalers, internal platform teams, and infrastructure teams
  • Manage external vendor and hyperscaler relationships at the working level: commitments, escalations, and joint roadmaps
  • Drive the dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs that come with operating databases as critical infrastructure for every service at Anthropic
  • Create program documentation including roadmaps, status reports, risk assessments, and communication plans
  • Facilitate technical decision-making by bringing together stakeholders, driving consensus, and ensuring timely resolution of blocking issues
You may be a good fit if you
  • Have several years of experience in technical program management, with a track record of successfully delivering complex, cross-functional programs
  • Have experience with database, storage, or core infrastructure programs and can engage meaningfully with the engineers who design and operate them
  • Have managed external vendor or cloud provider relationships at the working level, including commitments, escalations, and joint roadmaps
  • Have experience with cross-region, multi-cloud, or hybrid cloud infrastructure (preferred but not required)
  • 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
  • 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 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 you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're 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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from [redacted].com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links-visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on developing AI systems that are safe, reliable, and trustworthy. The company was founded in 2019 by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher and winner of the Turing Award. Anthropic's research is focused on developing AI systems that can learn from small amounts of data, reason about complex systems, and interact with humans in a natural way. The company is based in New York City and has a team of experienced AI researchers and engineers.
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