Product Manager, Developer Services (Lead)
Anthropic
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
As the Product Lead for Developer Services at Anthropic, you will lead a team of product managers responsible for how developers discover, adopt, and succeed with Claude's API platform. Your team owns the complete developer journey—from first API call to production deployment—across our console experience, SDKs, documentation, and developer tools.
This is a player-coach role where you'll set strategic direction for developer experience while directly managing 3-4 product managers covering areas including DevX (console, SDKs, docs), Evals, Observability. You'll be instrumental in driving product-led growth and ensuring that developers love building with Claude.
Responsibilities
Team Leadership
- Lead and develop a team of 3-4 product managers across Developer Experience, MCP, and Custom Agents
- Set vision and strategy for developer services that aligns with Anthropic's API business objectives
- Coach and mentor PMs on product craft, stakeholder management, and career development
- Recruit and hire exceptional product talent to grow the team
Strategy & Product Vision
- Define the holistic developer experience strategy spanning onboarding, documentation, tooling, and support
- Drive product-led growth initiatives that improve developer activation, engagement, and retention
- Establish metrics and success criteria across the developer funnel from signup to production usage
- Identify opportunities to differentiate Anthropic's developer experience in a competitive market
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner with Engineering leadership to align on team structures, roadmaps, and delivery
- Collaborate with Developer Relations on community engagement, content strategy, and developer feedback loops
- Work with Sales and Customer Success to ensure developer products support enterprise adoption
- Coordinate with Research and Safety teams on how new capabilities should be exposed to developers
You may be a good fit if you have
- 7+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years managing other product managers
- Extensive experience with developer-facing products including APIs, SDKs, documentation, or developer tools
- Track record of building products that developers love, with demonstrated product-led growth results
- Strong technical background with ability to engage deeply on API design and developer workflows
- Proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain high-performing product talent
- Excellence in cross-functional leadership and influencing without direct authority
- Data-driven approach to product decisions with strong analytical skills
Strong candidates may also have
- Experience at high-growth developer platform companies (Stripe, Twilio, Datadog, GitHub, etc.)
- Background in AI/ML platforms or infrastructure products
- Experience with open source community management and ecosystem development
- Track record of public speaking, developer advocacy, or thought leadership
The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.
Logistics
Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
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.
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