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Strategic Projects Lead, Recruiting

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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York, NY), Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$235k - $300kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Strategic Projects Lead to drive cross-cutting, high-stakes recruiting initiatives across multiple teams. Serves as the most senior IC for how recruiting operates, focusing on structure, coordination, and long-term coherence in recruiting processes as Anthropic scales.

Responsibilities

  • Take on recruiting's biggest ambiguous bets: define the problem, ship the smallest testable version, and hand each one off as a repeatable program before moving to the next
  • Own the operating rhythm across the teams that support recruiting, so we plan, review, and decide as one function
  • Spot recurring friction and fix the system behind it, not just the case in front of you
  • Own process design when company-wide changes run through recruiting, and drive them to real adoption with the partners who own the build and the comms
  • Be recruiting's DRI for headcount and workforce planning, including hiring pace and readiness for new regions
  • Own the operating standard for interviewing, like scheduling lead time and interviewer load, and lead the cross-team diagnosis when it slips
  • Turn analytics into standards and simple SOPs, and build documentation a new leader could pick up without you in the room
  • Keep the right people informed at the right time without becoming a bottleneck, and stay fluent in our recruiting systems and data so you can call the downstream impact of any decision

Qualifications

  • Have 8-10+ years in program management, business operations, chief of staff, or people/talent roles at a fast-growing company, with increasing scope over time
  • Have been part of a talent team or partnered closely with one, and understand how recruiting operates day to day
  • Think in systems: you see how the pieces connect, anticipate downstream effects, and design fixes that work across team boundaries
  • Have owned several complex workstreams at once and made hard prioritization calls without much guidance
  • Set the strategy and vision for your area rather than executing someone else's plan
  • Create structure and clarity in genuinely ambiguous environments
  • Have put AI to work in real workflows: redesigning process, automating the repetitive layer, and shipping faster
  • Test the smallest version of an idea in the real world before building the big one, and say clearly what you're not doing and why
  • Can lose a decision cleanly: disagree, commit, and execute with full credibility, knowing which calls are reversible and which aren't
  • Have taken a big process or policy change through an organization end to end and made it stick
  • Close the loop, hold the bar, and finish the unglamorous work

Skills

Required:Program managementSystems thinkingHeadcount and workforce planning

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • optional equity donation matching
  • generous vacation and parental leave
  • flexible working hours
  • lovely office space
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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