Community Operations & Executive Escalations Manager

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 an Operations Manager to build and lead a new pillar of our Platform Operations function: Community Operations & Executive Escalations. This role will stand up the team, processes, and infrastructure that protect Anthropic's reputation when high-stakes user issues surface on social media or arrive through executive channels. You'll own end-to-end escalation management - detection, triage, incident coordination, and resolution- across two distinct but related workstreams: brand-impacting conversations on public social channels and high-sensitivity inbound from Anthropic employees on behalf of users. The ideal candidate combines calm-under-fire incident judgment with the operational rigor to build durable systems. Responsibilities: Hire, lead, and develop a high-performing team of Community Operations specialists, covering detection through resolution Build the function from zero: stand up social listening infrastructure, define escalation criteria and severity tiers, author the incident management SOP, and establish coverage hours and on-call schedules Own social monitoring across public channels - triaging brand mentions and running escalations to resolution Own executive escalations end to end: receive inbound from Anthropic executives on behalf of users, lead your team in quarterbacking investigation and coordinate remediation across partner teams Serve as the central coordination point during live escalations and drive public/private response decisions to closure Build clear operating models with cross-functional teams so every stakeholder knows exactly where to send an escalation and what happens next Define and report on success metrics (time to triage, time to resolution, escalation volume by source) and run post-incident reviews that feed learnings back into criteria and process Develop response templates and playbooks for common scenarios so the team can move fast without sacrificing quality or judgment Provide thoughtful coaching and feedback to your direct reports, and partner with them on their career development and growth You may be a good fit if you have: 8+ years of experience in community operations, escalations management, or a related field - ideally in a consumer or developer platform environment 5+ years of people management experience, preferably in a fast-growing technology company Direct experience running incident or escalation workflows: you've been the person managing the channel, paging the on-call, and writing the post-incident report Familiarity with social listening tooling and the dynamics of how issues spread across public social platforms Excellent judgment under pressure in reading a fast-moving situation, separating signal from noise, and making calls with incomplete information Proven track record of building operational programs from 0 to 1: writing the SOP, defining the criteria, standing up the tooling, and then iterating as reality breaks your assumptions Strong cross-functional influence and ability to align teams around a shared plan in real time, even when incentives differ Clear, concise written communication - you can brief an executive in three sentences and document an incident so the next person can learn from it Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action; this team doesn't exist yet and you'll be defining what good looks like Excitement about protecting Anthropic's reputation and relationships at a moment when public attention on AI has never been higher The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.  For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Annual Salary: $260,000 — $310,000 USD Logistics 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