Protective Services Lead

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

We’re looking for a senior personal security leader to serve as the organizational backbone of a fast-growing GSIS function. Reporting to the Head of protective services, this role sits at the intersection of corporate security expertise and program management craft. While the rest of the team is focused on day-to-day operational excellence, you’ll work behind the scenes building the policies, processes, systems, and metrics that let the function scale, and you’ll step in to drive time-critical, cross-functional projects when emergent needs don’t fit neatly into anyone’s existing lane.

This is not a coordination-only role. You’ll need enough domain fluency to earn trust quickly with experienced security practitioners, enough program rigor to stand up new capabilities from zero, and enough pragmatism to know when a fast, imperfect answer beats a slow, polished one. Much of what you build will eventually hand off to operational owners — so a bias toward clean, documented, transferable work matters as much as speed.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the policy and procedure library across GSIS domains, including intelligence, executive protection, investigations, travel and event security, security technology, security operations, and crisis management ensuring coverage is complete, current, and aligned with company-wide frameworks
• Stand up and own the GSIS metrics and reporting framework: operational health, open initiatives, emerging risks, and portfolio status, delivered in a way that gives leadership reliable visibility without manual assembly each time
• Stand up net-new capabilities in response to emerging risks or strategic priorities; for each, build the operating model, training, and vendor/partner framework so that ownership can transfer cleanly to an operational team
• Act as intake and triage for high-priority stakeholder requests that need GSIS involvement, resolving directly where you can, and routing with clear context when you can not
• Build and maintain audit-ready documentation and control evidence to support regulatory, customer, and partner diligence requests
• Serve as project lead for cross-functional GSIS initiatives that require significant coordination across Legal, IT, Facilities, People, Finance, and external vendors owning scope, timeline, stakeholder communication, and delivery end to end

You may be a good fit if you

• Have substantial program management experience in the corporate/physical security domain, you’ve run a personal security program or equivalent function inside a security organization and know what good looks like
• Have built personal security programs or capabilities from zero in a high-growth environment, including all the supporting documentation, playbooks, and training
• Bring working fluency across multiple GSIS domains to include but not limited to: intelligence, executive protection, investigations, security technology, security operations, crisis management, travel and event security enough to engage credibly with practitioners in each
• Have developed policies, procedures, and audit-ready documentation that held up under regulatory or customer scrutiny
• Write clearly and can translate complex security concepts into materials that land with both specialist and non-specialist audiences
• Are comfortable operating with ambiguity, minimal direction, and priorities that shift as the situation develops
• Care about Anthropic’s mission and the unique security considerations that come with building frontier AI systems

Strong candidates may

• Have worked at an AI-focused organization, frontier technology company, or similarly high-growth, high-scrutiny environment
• Have direct operational experience in one or more GSIS disciplines such as intelligence analysis, threat assessment, investigations, executive protection, or security operations center work
• Have supported an organization through external security audits, regulatory compliance examinations, or intensive customer/partner due diligence
• Have managed global security programs and third-party security providers across multiple regions

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

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

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.

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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

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. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.