Performance and Talent Program Manager

<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>About the role</h2> <p>We are seeking an experienced People Programs Manager to join our Performance &amp; Talent Programs team. This role will own the design and end-to-end execution of Anthropic's performance programs — performance pulses, biannual review cycles, promotions, and the continuous feedback practices that connect them — producing the year-round performance signal that feeds our talent intelligence layer and upholds our performance bar as we scale. This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the Head of Performance &amp; Talent Programs, and a great fit for a true builder who has both seen performance management excellence at scale and is excited to roll up their sleeves in a rapidly scaling, high-ambiguity environment.</p> <h2>Key responsibilities</h2> <ul> <li>Own end-to-end execution of Anthropic's cyclical performance programs (performance pulses, promotions, biannual review cycles) and the continuous feedback practices between them</li> <li>Ensure these programs scale durably and uphold Anthropic's performance bar and talent density as the company grows</li> <li>Design programs to produce useful performance signal year-round and feed it into the talent intelligence layer to inform succession, critical talent identification, and deployment decisions</li> <li>Partner cross-functionally with People Services on cycle execution, People Products on program tooling, and People Analytics on connecting performance data to broader people data and insights</li> <li>Iterate on program frameworks (calibration, rating constructs, feedback formats, p