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

Thousands of rare genetic diseases have a known cause but no approved treatment. Advances in gene editing and oligonucleotide medicines have made it possible to design therapies for very small populations, sometimes for a single patient, but developing them remains slow and costly. Anthropic’s Life Sciences team is exploring how frontier AI, combined with deep drug development expertise and strong external partnerships, can help change that.

We’re hiring a Technical Program Manager to bring structure and momentum to this work. You’ll coordinate across programs that support the development of individualized genetic medicines, advance research into new therapeutic approaches, and help patient organizations, non-profits, and researchers use Claude in their own rare disease work. You’ll partner closely with scientists, engineers, clinicians, and external collaborators to keep complex efforts moving toward shared milestones.

Much of this work remains in early stages, so this is a foundational role on a small team. You’ll help define how the team operates, build the plans and processes that allow it to grow, and work with our researchers and engineers to find where Claude can be most useful.

If you’ve run complex programs in drug development or clinical research and want to help advance treatments for rare disease, we’d love to hear from you.

Key responsibilities

Build and own an integrated program plan, including milestones, dependencies, risks, budgets, and key decisions
Coordinate with clinical, manufacturing, and research partners on programs that span preclinical development, manufacturing, regulatory review, and clinical care
Run the operating cadence with external partners, tracking progress and raising risks early
Work with Legal, Finance, and Partnerships to turn agreements into clear operating plans and track commitments
Coordinate research across internal scientists, academic collaborators, companies, and contract research organizations, helping to scope projects, sequence work, and support timely decisions
Help ensure that data is shared responsibly and in a usable form, with appropriate consent, privacy protections, and data-sharing agreements in place
Lead programs that support non-profits, patient organizations, and academic and independent researchers, from onboarding through ongoing support and feedback
Help connect genetic diagnosis efforts with therapeutic research and development
Share insights from partners and programs with Anthropic’s research and product teams to help improve Claude for scientific and medical research
Write clear status updates, risk assessments, and decision memos, and build processes that scale with the team

Minimum qualifications

Experience as a technical program manager or program lead on complex drug development, clinical research, or translational science programs involving multiple external organizations, such as manufacturers, contract research organizations, or clinical sites
Working knowledge of how a therapy moves from preclinical development into the clinic, including manufacturing, regulatory filings, and clinical operations, and how a delay in one stage affects the others
Scientific fluency in molecular biology or genetics, sufficient to follow experimental plans, review data with scientists, and understand tradeoffs
Strong program management skills, including project planning, milestones, risk registers, budget tracking, and dependency management across many concurrent workstreams
A track record of driving work to completion across organizations without formal authority
Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to make complex scientific and operational issues easy to understand and act on