Threat Intel Manager, Influence Operations & Surveillance

<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><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>We are looking for a threat intel manager to build and run our Influence Operations &amp; Surveillance team within Threat Intelligence. This team detects, investigates, and disrupts the misuse of Anthropic's AI systems for influence operations, coordinated inauthentic behavior, and surveillance operations by authoritarian states and the commercial spyware ecosystem.&nbsp;</p> <p>This is a ground-floor leadership role. The mission area today produces some of our most consequential casework and external reporting almost entirely through manual investigation; you will stand up its purpose-built detection capabilities, set the strategy for how a frontier AI company finds and counters state-linked information manipulation and surveillance misuse, and you'll personally be involved with the most complex investigations.</p> <p><em>Important context: In this position you may be exposed to explicit content spanning a range of topics, including those of a sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature. This role may require responding to escalations during weekends and holidays.</em></p> <h2><strong>Key responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Own strategy, priorities, and outcomes for the Influence Operations &amp; Surveillance threat intel mission area</li> <li>Hire, manage, and develop a small team of technical threat investigators with IO and surveillance expertise</li> <li>Personally lead investigations into state-linked surveillance misuse&nbsp; including commercial spyware vendors and surveillance products whose end customers