Research Product Manager, Model Behaviors San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY

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.

About the role
As a Product Manager for Model Behaviors, you will partner with the Alignment Finetuning team to define and shape Claude's character, behaviors, and reinforcement signals—work that directly influences how millions of people experience AI. You will systematically identify high-priority behavioral improvements, coordinate across Research, Product, and Safeguards teams, and accelerate our ability to ship well-aligned models. The ideal candidate combines deep user empathy with the judgment to navigate nuanced behavior questions where there are no clear right answers.

Responsibilities

Define behavioral defaults and steerability constraints

Develop and maintain taxonomies of model behaviors across capabilities

Identify, triage, and prioritize behavior issues and opportunities, coordinating input from Users, Research, Product, and Safeguards teams

Amplify alignment research breakthroughs, translating them into product, process, and model improvements

Deeply understand user interaction patterns to identify behavior improvements that make Claude more helpful and safe

Contribute to evals that measure alignment progress

Identify and scale initiatives and tools that help researchers ship alignment improvements faster

Minimum Qualifications

Have a deep passion and curiosity for AI and LLMs. Use AI regularly.

Have 5+ years in product management leading scaled conversational AI products.

Are a first-principles thinker with the ability to navigate and execute amidst ambiguity, flexing into different domains based on the business problem at hand and finding simple, easy-to-understand solutions

Have a track record of delivering products and features to end-users (consumer or end-user B2B focus)

Have strong user empathy and the ability to synthesize vague or contradictory feedback into actionable priorities

Have strong judgment and model taste, with the ability to make tradeoffs when there is no clear right answer

Have a strong grasp of ML concepts and are willing to go deep on technical solutions

Have intellectual curiosity without ego—comfortable asking questions and learning independently

Think creatively about the risks and benefits of new technologies, moving beyond past checklists and playbooks

Have a creative, hacker spirit and love solving puzzles

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

$385,000 - $460,000 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.

As set forth in Anthropic’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

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