Research Product Manager, Model Behaviors

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. As a Product Manager for Model Behaviors, you will partner with the Alignment Finetuning team to define and shape Claude's character, behaviors, and reinforcement signals—work that directly influences how millions of people experience AI. You will systematically identify high-priority behavioral improvements, coordinate across Research, Product, and Safeguards teams, and accelerate our ability to ship well-aligned models.

• Define behavioral defaults and steerability constraints
• Develop and maintain taxonomies of model behaviors across capabilities
• Identify, triage, and prioritize behavior issues and opportunities, coordinating input from Users, Research, Product, and Safeguards teams
• Amplify alignment research breakthroughs, translating them into product, process, and model improvements
• Deeply understand user interaction patterns to identify behavior improvements that make Claude more helpful and safe
• Contribute to evals that measure alignment progress
• Identify and scale initiatives and tools that help researchers ship alignment improvements faster

• Deep passion and curiosity for AI and LLMs; use AI regularly
• First-principles thinker able to navigate ambiguity and find simple solutions
• Track record of delivering products to end-users (consumer or end-user B2B)
• Strong user empathy and ability to synthesize vague feedback into actionable priorities
• Strong judgment and model taste, making tradeoffs when there is no clear right answer
• Strong grasp of ML concepts and willingness to go deep on technical solutions
• Intellectual curiosity without ego; comfortable asking questions and learning independently
• Creative, hacker spirit and love solving puzzles

• 5+ years in product management leading scaled conversational AI products

Annual Salary: $385,000—$460,000 USD

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! We retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.