What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Manager, Product Platform position at Anthropic?
About the role:
The Product Foundations team is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our team of software engineers working on early-stage AI capabilities. As the Engineering Manager on Product Platform, you’ll be responsible for defining and executing the creation of shared product capabilities at the core of Anthropics’ product surfaces, while maintaining clear direction and stability for the team.
You'll partner closely with product managers, engineering leadership, talented engineers and research teams to transform emerging AI capabilities into product capabilities. Success in this role requires a strong ability to understand stakeholders needs, identify opportunities to share capabilities across products, understand our product and roadmap deeply, and the ability to facilitate rapid iterations to improve our product suite.
About Product Foundations:
Product Foundations serves as an internal capabilities team building product infrastructure, shared components and focusing significant energy on cross functional efforts including reliability, latency and efficiency. Our mandate is to build and maintain the foundational platforms, infrastructure and abstractions that enable Anthropic's products to operate securely, reliably, and efficiently at scale while accelerating product development across the organization. We embed with product engineering teams to provide platform perspective, build shared mvp capabilities, and align to a shared vision for success.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and coach a high-performing team of software engineers through the complexities of 0-1 platform development
- Partner effectively with engineering and product leaders to align on direction and execution
- Create a balanced environment that encourages both iterative improvement and rigorous evaluation
- Provide clear, actionable feedback and support for engineer growth and development
- Help partner teams develop approaches for sharing capabilities and partnering to evolve our platform alongside the sophistication of our products and users.
- Drive adoption of platform capabilities and learnings to inform company-wide product strategy and planning
- Represent the platform perspective and roadmap in discussions with research, product, and leadership stakeholders
You may be a good fit if you have:
- Have 3 years of engineering management experience leading high-performing teams in ambiguous, early-stage environments
- Excel at creating psychological safety and helping teams navigate uncertainty
- Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and ability to guide teams through rapidly evolving organization priorities while building underlying stable platforms
- Have excellent cross-functional leadership skills to build alignment between research, engineering and product
- Are skilled at facilitating decision-making rather than imposing solutions
- Have expertise in mentoring and investing energy into team culture
- Have excellent communication skills to represent the importance of and need to invest in platform capabilities at the core of our products
- Have a comprehensive technical understanding of modern software product development processes and technical stacks. Experience of AI/ML is a bonus
- Care deeply about responsibly pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities in service of Anthropic's mission
Strong candidates may also have experience with:
- Building products from zero to one in a startup environment
- Expertise in modern web development stacks (React, Next.js, etc)
- Experience working on AI/ML products
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
