Vendor and Contract Manager, Safeguards

Job description

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: As the Vendor and Contract Manager on the Safeguards team, you will own the end-to-end lifecycle of Anthropic's safety-critical vendor, partner, and consultant relationships — from identifying and selecting vendors through contract negotiation, onboarding, ongoing performance management, and renewal. The vendors and partners you'll manage span verification, threat intelligence, process outsourcing, capability evaluation, civil society consultation, and research collaboration. You'll build repeatable processes where they're needed while staying nimble enough to handle novel partnership structures, like research collaborations, civil society consultations, and model red-teaming engagements that don't fit neatly into standard procurement workflows. You'll work closely with legal, procurement, finance, and engineering teams, and you'll be...