Enterprise Threat Intelligence Lead, Global Safety, Intelligence & Security

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.

Anthropic’s Global Safety, Intelligence, and Security (GSIS) team is responsible for protecting our people, facilities, and operations worldwide. The function spans intelligence, protective services, investigations, travel and event security, security operations, environmental health and safety, and crisis management — and it’s growing quickly as Anthropic’s footprint, public profile, and threat surface all expand.

We are seeking an Enterprise Threat Intelligence Lead to build and lead GSIS’s enterprise Security Intelligence Program. Where our Protective Intelligence team focuses on person-centric threat assessment, individuals and groups who may pose a risk to our people — this role owns the organization-level threat picture: the geopolitical, security, and risk environment in which Anthropic operates globally. You will define the program’s vision and operating model, establish analytic standards and governance, and build the team and vendor ecosystem that keeps Anthropic’s leadership and security functions ahead of a rapidly evolving threat landscape.

This is a player-coach leadership role. You will manage analysts and contractors from day one while remaining hands-on producing strategic assessments, leading crisis intelligence support, and briefing senior executives during fast-moving events. The role sits at the center of how Anthropic understands and anticipates external risk, and your work will directly shape decisions about where and how we operate, travel, convene, and grow.

• →Lead and mature the enterprise Security Intelligence Program, including strategic intelligence, threat monitoring, and risk analysis capabilities
• →Develop the program vision, operating model, governance, and performance metrics aligned to Anthropic’s corporate risk priorities
• →Identify, assess, and track global threats including geopolitical instability, terrorism, crime, activism, insider risk, nation-state targeting of the AI sector, and emerging security trends
• →Produce timely intelligence products such as risk assessments, threat briefs, travel risk guidance, and executive summaries, and translate intelligence into actionable insights for executive leadership, crisis teams, and operational security functions
• →Establish methodologies for intelligence collection, analysis, validation, and dissemination, and set quality standards for all intelligence production
• →Provide intelligence support to crisis management, emergency response, and business continuity efforts; serve as a key advisor during security incidents, elevated threat environments, and high-risk events; coordinate intelligence inputs before, during, and after crises to support decision-making and post-incident review
• →Brief senior leaders and cross-functional partners with clear, concise, and decision-oriented intelligence; build trusted relationships with Legal, People, Compliance, DnR, SecEng, etc; represent security intelligence in enterprise risk discussions and governance forums
• →Manage relationships with external intelligence providers, industry peers, law enforcement, and government partners as appropriate; evaluate and oversee intelligence vendors, tools, and subscriptions to ensure quality, relevance, and value
• →Hire, lead, mentor, and develop intelligence analysts and contractors, fostering high analytical standards and ethical judgment; establish clear expectations, workflows, and quality controls; promote a culture of integrity, discretion, and continuous improvement

• Have 8+ years of professional experience in intelligence, security risk analysis, threat assessment, or a related discipline
• Have demonstrated experience leading or building intelligence programs in a corporate, government, military, or global security environment
• Hold a bachelor’s degree in security studies, international relations, political science, intelligence, criminology, or a related field
• Have managed people before and want to keep doing it — while staying hands-on as an analyst and crisis advisor
• Bring strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex threat information into clear, actionable guidance
• Have a proven ability to brief senior executives and influence decision-making, with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Can manage multiple concurrent priorities — strategic programs and live incidents — under tight deadlines with minimal oversight
• Are comfortable with a flexible schedule, including periodic after-hours availability during crises and elevated threat environments

• A master’s degree in intelligence studies, international affairs, security studies, public policy, or a related field
• Experience supporting global operations, international travel risk, or crisis management programs
• Familiarity with intelligence tools, threat monitoring platforms, and structured analytic frameworks
• Prior experience in highly regulated or high-risk industries (e.g., technology, critical infrastructure, life sciences, finance)
• A background in high-growth technology companies or startups, and specialized knowledge of risks unique to the AI sector

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

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. 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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

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.

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.