Incident Response Manager - Product & Engineering

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2 class="heading"><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>We are looking for an Incident Response Manager to serve as the operational backbone of how Anthropic handles incidents. When things go wrong, you are the person who makes sure the right people are in the room, the right information is flowing, and nothing falls through the cracks.&nbsp;</p> <p>The right person for this role brings structure and rigor to high-volume, high-stakes situations without waiting for a playbook to be handed to them. You will work across engineering, product, security, legal, go-to-market, and leadership to ensure Anthropic responds to incidents with speed, clarity, and accountability. This is not a role where you follow existing runbooks; it is a role where you write them, and where you operate effectively even when the runbook does not yet exist.</p> <h2 class="heading"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Build the incident response management function, establishing the processes, tooling, and operational standards that define how we handle incidents at scale</li> <li>Serve as an on-call incident commander, driving coordinated response across technical and non-technical stakeholders during incidents of varying severity, including managing multiple active incidents simultaneously</li> <li>Engage the right people at the right time, with a strong sense of urgency, bringing order and direction to fast-moving, ambiguous situations</li> <li>Own incident communications end-to-end, from real-time internal coordination to external channels like status pages, direct customer outreach