Finance Systems, PMO Lead

About Anthropic

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.

About the role

We are seeking a skilled Finance Systems PMO leader to join our Finance Systems team at Anthropic. In this role, you will own the strategic management of our entire Finance Systems project portfolio, establishing and executing governance frameworks that enable our finance organization to scale efficiently. You will be responsible for driving project excellence across our financial technology initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives, and maintaining visibility into project health and outcomes. This is a critical role that will directly impact our ability to build scalable financial systems that support Anthropic's rapid growth and mission to create safe AI.
In this role, you will:

• Project Portfolio Management: Own end-to-end management of the Finance Systems project portfolio, including project intake, prioritization, resource allocation, and strategic trade-off decisions
• Governance Framework Design: Develop and implement comprehensive governance frameworks for project management, including standardized processes for project initiation, prioritization, execution, and closure
• Status Tracking and Reporting: Establish robust reporting mechanisms to provide clear visibility into project health, milestones, dependencies, and outcomes for leadership and stakeholders
• Risk Management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks across the portfolio, developing contingency plans and escalation procedures
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Finance, Accounting, Engineering, and leadership to ensure alignment and successful project delivery
• Change Management: Design and execute change management strategies to ensure smooth adoption of new financial systems and processes across the organization
• Strategic Roadmap Planning: Partner with the Head of Finance Systems to align project priorities with long-term financial technology strategy and business objectives

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 10+ years of experience in project management, program management, or PMO leadership roles, preferably in finance or technology environments
• Have extensive experience managing complex technology projects and system implementations
• Possess strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize data into actionable insights and recommendations
• Are skilled at building and maintaining relationships with diverse stakeholders at all levels of an organization
• Have experience designing and implementing governance frameworks in fast-paced, scaling environments
• Are proficient in project management tools and methodologies
• Have excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex project information to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrate strong problem-solving abilities and can navigate ambiguity while maintaining focus on delivery
• Are passionate about building scalable processes that support organizational growth

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.

Annual Salary:

$265,000-$315,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.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. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact - advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI - rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process

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