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Manager, Applied AI Cyber Specialists

Anthropic· Applied AI
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA, USA), Hybrid (New York City, NY, USA)$1 - $2full-timePosted 6d ago

About the role

Leader of Anthropic's security-focused Applied AI team, building and directing the first Security team within Applied AI. Responsible for defining target security customers, hiring and mentoring the team, coordinating with Sales, Engineering, and legal/trust partners, and establishing playbooks and evaluation methods to ensure Claude is used safely by defenders.

Responsibilities

  • Hire, onboard, and develop the first Applied AI Architects on the Security team. Coach senior and early-career architects differently, and give each one clear goals.
  • Decide where the team spends its time: which segments and account types come first, which deals get architect coverage, and how to say no clearly when demand outruns headcount.
  • Partner with security account executives on joint account plans, regular pipeline and forecast reviews, and deals where the customer’s security review sets the close date.
  • Guide customers from discovery through evaluations and proofs of concept with written success criteria. Then take them from one-time code scans to sustained workloads: application security in the development lifecycle, continuous automated penetration testing, alert triage and investigation, and vulnerability and threat intelligence.
  • Work alongside the security ISVs, systems integrators, and managed security providers already in our customers’ accounts. Keep a clear line between what Anthropic delivers and what partners deliver.
  • Bring in Applied AI Engineers and our security, legal, and trust teams when a customer’s build or review needs them.
  • Write the first security playbooks, reference implementations, and evaluation approaches. Bring what you learn back to Product, Engineering, and Research.
  • Carry a small number of strategic security accounts yourself, from executive briefings with CISOs to hands-on workshops with their engineers.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of industry experience with at least 4 years managing a team of customer-facing technical people (solutions architects, sales engineers, or security consultants).
  • Hands-on security depth in at least one area (e.g., application security, detection and response, offensive security, or vulnerability management).
  • Security leadership experience trusted by practitioners in the domain; deep enough to command credible judgment.
  • Experience using LLMs for real security work (code review, vulnerability discovery, triage, investigation) with clear examples of impact.
  • Experience working large enterprise security deals end to end, including customer security reviews, in partnership with sales.
  • Ability to explain security risk and value to CISOs and engineers in terms they care about.

Skills

Required:People leadership and coachingSecurity domain expertiseCustomer-facing program managementApplied AI integrationSecurity storytelling to executives

Benefits

  • competitive compensation and benefits
  • optional equity donation matching
  • generous vacation and parental leave
  • flexible working hours
  • lovely office space
Last updated Oct 21, 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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