TPM Manager, Infrastructure

Anthropic$365K — $500K+*
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in technical program management
  • 7+ years managing technical program managers
  • Experience building teams or functions from scratch
  • Familiarity with physical and software infrastructure including datacenters and cloud platforms
  • Proven track record in running large-scale compute or infrastructure programs

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive 2-3 high-priority infrastructure programs
  • Develop processes and playbooks as needed
  • Earn credibility with engineering leads through execution
  • Set the standard for TPM work through personal output
  • Coach and develop TPMs and transition programs to them
  • Identify work that will benefit from TPM support; make staffing trade-offs
  • Coordinate across teams on programs that span organizational boundaries

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Hybrid work model with in-office expectations
  • Opportunity to impact and grow a rapidly expanding team
  • Engage in strategic planning with senior leadership
  • Encouragement for underrepresented groups to apply
Full Job Description
About the Role

Anthropic's Infrastructure organization is responsible for the systems that train our models, serve our products, and support our engineering teams. That includes datacenter operations, capacity planning across cloud providers and our own facilities, accelerator cluster management, production serving infrastructure, developer tooling, data pipelines, and networking. It's a lot of surface area, and the demands on it are growing fast.

We're hiring a TPM leader to own program management across this whole ecosystem from compute provisioning through to production workloads. We're bringing up new datacenters, scaling multi-cloud compute across AWS, GCP, and Azure, managing datacenter construction, and building the software infrastructure to keep pace. The team is growing very quickly, and we're looking for a senior leader with experience at scale to build and scale this team to support Anthropic's rapid growth. You'll report to the Head of TPM, partnering closely with various engineering leaders on technical strategy, roadmapping, and aligning TPM support where it is most impactful.

You'll personally drive 2-3 critical programs while leading your teamin parallel. This is a role where you need to be comfortable doing the work yourself before you can hand it off.

What you'll do:

IC Program Leadership
  • Own and drive 2-3 of the highest-priority programs across infrastructure while you build the team
  • Run the actual programs-datacenter bring-up timelines, capacity scaling plans, infrastructure migrations, cross-team reliability efforts, or whatever the most pressing needs are
  • Build the processes and playbooks as you go-figure out what works by doing it, then codify it for the team
  • Earn credibility with engineering leads through solid execution, not just strategy

Team Building & Development
  • Set the standard for what good TPM work looks like in this domain through your own output
  • Coach and develop TPMs
  • Transition programs to your team as you hire
  • Grow the team with excellent TPMs by defining roles, writing JDs, sourcing candidates, and closing hires

Planning & Prioritization
  • Work with various engineering leads to identify work that would most benefit from TPM support
  • Make real tradeoffs about what to staff vs. what to skip given limited TPM capacity during the build phase
  • Maintain portfolio-level visibility across programs-status, risks, dependencies, blockers
  • Represent the team in planning cycles and leadership reviews

Cross-functional Coordination
  • Coordinate across Infrastructure and partner teams (Research, Product, Security, Finance, Legal) on programs that span organizational boundaries
  • Drive alignment on programs that cross the hardware/software line-e.g., capacity plans that feed into training schedules, or efficiency work that spans accelerator kernels and serving systems
  • Own executive communication on program status, risks, and resource needs

You May Be a Good Fit If You:
  • Have 10+ years of experience in technical program management, with 7+ years directly managing TPMs and ideally some experience leading larger TPM organizations
  • Have built a team or function from scratch before-you know the difference between hiring for a defined role vs. figuring out what the roles should be
  • Have scaled TPM teams to support rapidly-growing, fast-moving company environments
  • Have worked across physical and software infrastructure-datacenters, networking, hardware ops, distributed systems, cloud platforms, developer tooling. You don't need to be deep in all of it, but you need to be conversant enough to ask the right questions and spot the real risks.
  • Have run large-scale compute or infrastructure programs-capacity planning, cluster deployments, datacenter build-outs, cloud migrations, or similar
  • Can communicate complex programs clearly to senior leadership without losing the important details
  • Are good at context-switching between doing the work and managing people, and don't see the IC work as beneath you
  • Are comfortable making staffing and prioritization decisions without perfect information

Deadline to apply: None, applications will be received on a rolling basis.

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-$565,000 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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