Data Operations Manager, Anthropic
Human Data
$270-365k
AI safety and research company
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AI safety and research company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$270-365k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Role
Who you are
- Have 3+ years in operations, consulting, product management, or program management roles
- Have exceptional project management skills with ability to handle multiple complex projects simultaneously
- Have strong communication skills and can engage effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Are familiar with how LLMs work or have strong interest in understanding AI training methodologies
- Are highly organized and can navigate ambiguity effectively
- Have experience with data analysis tools (SQL, Python, Tableau, spreadsheets, or similar)
- Thrive in fast-paced research environments with shifting priorities
- Are passionate about AI safety and understand the critical importance of high-quality data
- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
- Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
- 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
What the job involves
- As Data Operations Manager, you'll build and scale data operations across research teams working on frontier AI capabilities. You'll partner with researchers to design and execute data strategies, manage vendor relationships, and own the entire data pipeline from requirements to production
- This role requires operational excellence combined with technical depth to understand what makes high-quality training data, but your focus will be on strategy and execution
- The data operations you build will directly determine how well our models perform on critical capabilities—tool use accuracy, prompt injection robustness, long-horizon reasoning, and safety alignment. You'll work with world-class researchers advancing the frontier while building the operational infrastructure to scale these efforts
- We're looking for someone who gets excited about the challenge of scaling quality across diverse research areas—someone who can understand nuanced technical requirements, build the right partnerships, and execute flawlessly. If you thrive at the intersection of operational excellence and cutting-edge AI research, we'd love to hear from you
- Own and execute data strategy for research teams advancing frontier AI capabilities across RLHF, safety, tool use, and agentic workflows
- Drive strategic vendor partnerships and build scalable frameworks for technical data collection at scale
- Design and implement operational systems that translate research requirements into high-quality data pipelines
- Build evaluation frameworks and quality standards that ensure data meets the bar for training state-of-the-art AI systems
- Lead cross-functional initiatives to optimize research velocity while maintaining rigorous quality standards
- Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, and opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness across data operations
- Partner with senior research leaders to align data operations with model development roadmaps and strategic priorities
Our take
Funded by Google and founded by ex-OpenAI employees, Anthropic has emerged as one of the leading companies in AI, focused on building reliable and safe AI systems. Since its launch, the company has rapidly grown into a major player in the industry, with its AI assistant Claude now widely recognized as a strong competitor to ChatGPT.
Like other chatbots, Claude is accessible through a conversational interface and supports a wide range of text-generation and reasoning tasks. A key point of differentiation remains its emphasis on safety, with Anthropic's "Constitutional AI" approach aiming to produce more aligned and less harmful outputs than earlier generations of AI systems.
While Claude has received significant praise for its performance and alignment, some users have notes areas for improvement, particularly in technical domains such as complex mathematics and precision in grammar. However, with substantial backing freom major tech players and multi-billion-dollar funding rounds, Anthropic has firmly established itself as a long-term competitor in the AI space.
Now the company is continuing to refine Claude's capabilities while expanding globally, including growing its presence in Europe. And its ongoing commitment to responsible AI development put it in a position to be not just a competitor, but a key influence on the direction of the industry as a whole.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
190% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 16 rounds)
May 2026
$65bn
SERIES H
Apr 2026
$15bn
LATE VC
Total funding: $139.3bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
- 22 weeks of paid parental leave
- Flexible paid time off and absence policies
- Mental health support for you and your dependents
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Optional equity donation matching at a 1:1 ratio, up to 25% of your equity grant
- Retirement plans with competitive matching
- Life and income protection plans
- $500/month flexible wellness and time saver stipend
- Commuter benefits
- Annual education stipend
- Home office stipends
- Relocation support for those moving for Anthropic
- Daily meals and snacks in the office
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dario Amodei
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Anthropic in 2021, Dario spent almost 5 years at OpenAI as a Team Lead for AI safety and as the Vice President of Research. They also worked as a Research Scientist at Google.
Jared Kaplan
(Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer)Jared hs been a Professor at John Hopkins University since 2012. They are also an experienced Researcher having worked previously at OpenAI and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Jack Clark
(Co-Founder)Jack is an experienced Reporter having worked previously at the Register and Bloomberg. They also worked for OpenAI in Strategy and Communications and as a Policy Director.
Sam McCandlish
(Co-Founder & CTO)Sam graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Theoretical Physics. They previously worked as a Research Lead at OpenAI.
Tom Brown
(Co-Founder)Tom previously worked as a Member of the Technical Staff for both OpenAI and Google Brain.
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