Product Policy Risk Manager, Trust & Safety

NY, United States of America · Remote possible

Job description

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.

As the Trust and Safety Product Policy Risk Manager, you will play a crucial role in assessing the implications of new product features and developing policies to ensure their safe and responsible deployment. You'll work closely with product and engineering teams to understand upcoming features, anticipate potential misuses or unintended consequences, and craft policies that balance innovation with responsibility. Your work will be essential in maintaining Anthropic's commitment to safe and beneficial AI as we continue to expand our product capabilities.

IMPORTANT CONTEXT ON THIS ROLE: In this position you may be exposed to and engage with explicit content spanning a range of topics, including those of a sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature. This role may require responding to escalations during weekends and holidays.

Responsibilities 

  • Develop and maintain risk assessment frameworks to identify and evaluate potential safety risks associated with new product features and functionality
  • Create comprehensive policies and guidelines to address and mitigate identified risks related to new product launches and enhanced model capabilities. 
  • Collaborate closely with a variety of stakeholders including product and engineering teams and the broader T&S team to leverage deep policy, enforcement, and engineering expertise
  • Analyze the potential for misuse, unintended consequences, and harmful outputs of new model capabilities
  • Craft policy recommendations that strike a balance between enabling innovation and ensuring responsible AI deployment
  • Work with the T&S enforcement team to develop clear guidelines for implementing new policies related to product features
  • Stay current on industry trends and emerging risks in AI development to proactively address potential issues
  • Contribute to regular reports on product policy risks and mitigations for senior leadership
  •  Educate and align internal stakeholders on our product policies and overall approach to responsible AI development

You might thrive in this role if you:

  • Understand Trust and Safety policies and safety considerations associated with a wide range of product surfaces. 
  • Have crisp written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Have conducted risk evaluations of novel products in fast moving organizations 
  • Demonstrated expertise collaborating with product and engineering teams to integrate safety considerations into product development
  • Have familiarity with AI ethics, responsible AI principles, and current debates surrounding AI safety and governance
  • Have the ability to think creatively about potential misuses of technology and develop innovative solutions to mitigate risks
  • Have shown strong project management skills with the ability to drive policy development processes from ideation to implementation

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. 

The expected salary range for this position is:

Annual Salary:
$200,000$240,000 USD

Logistics

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.

Compensation and Benefits*

Anthropic’s compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits. We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates.

Equity - For eligible roles, equity will be a major component of the total compensation. We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.

US Benefits -  The following benefits are for our US-based employees:

  • Optional equity donation matching.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
  • 401(k) plan with 4% matching.
  • 22 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
  • Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness.
  • Fertility benefits via Carrot.
  • Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
  • Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.

UK Benefits -  The following benefits are for our UK-based employees:

  • Optional equity donation matching.
  • Private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
  • Pension contribution (matching 4% of your salary).
  • 21 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
  • Health cash plan.
  • Life insurance and income protection.
  • Daily lunches and snacks in our office.

* This compensation and benefits information is based on Anthropic’s good faith estimate for this position as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. Employees based outside of the UK or US will receive a different benefits package. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors, including where you place on our internal performance ladders, which is based on factors including past work experience, relevant education, and performance on our interviews or in a work trial.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.