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

The CISO in Residence is a senior executive advisor and thought leader who brings deep, real-world CISO experience to help guide enterprise customers, partners, and regulators through the secure adoption of AI systems.

This is not an operational, internal CISO position. Instead, it is a highly strategic, externally-facing executive role designed to:

Serve as a trusted peer advisor to enterprise CISOs, security leaders, and executive teams navigating AI adoption
Provide executive-level guidance on AI security strategy, risk management, and governance
Represent Anthropic in industry forums, regulatory discussions, and executive engagements
Act as a bridge between customer and industry security priorities and Anthropic’s product, policy, and go-to-market teams
Help shape the emerging discipline of AI security by drawing on deep enterprise security expertise

The ideal candidate is a former CISO or senior security executive with a proven ability to translate technical security strategy into measurable business outcomes, and who is passionate about the safe and responsible deployment of AI.

Key Responsibilities:

Executive Advisory & Customer Engagement

Serve as a trusted advisor to enterprise CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, and Boards on AI security strategy, risk governance, and safe AI deployment
Participate in executive briefings, customer advisory boards, and strategic account engagements
Guide customers in aligning AI adoption with their security frameworks, compliance requirements, and risk tolerance
Provide mentorship and insight to security leaders navigating the organizational implications of AI integration
Help enterprise customers develop AI security policies, acceptable use frameworks, and incident response plans

Thought Leadership & Industry Engagement

Represent Anthropic at industry conferences, executive roundtables, regulatory forums, and webinars
Contribute to whitepapers, blog posts, and thought leadership initiatives on AI security and governance
Provide expert commentary on emerging cybersecurity trends as they intersect with AI capabilities and risks
Engage with policymakers and standards bodies to help shape responsible AI security frameworks
Support media and analyst engagements as appropriate

Strategic Alignment & Internal Collaboration

Partner with Sales, Product, Engineering, Policy, and Trust & Safety teams to align customer security needs with product strategy
Provide real-world practitioner insight into product roadmap discussions, safety features, and enterprise security priorities
Support strategic deals by articulating executive-level value, security assurances, and business outcomes of Anthropic’s platform
Inform go-to-market strategy based on direct CISO engagement, industry insights, and evolving regulatory requirements
Contribute to Anthropic’s AI safety mission by bridging the gap between traditional enterprise security and frontier AI security challenges

Required Qualifications:

10+ years of cybersecurity experience
Prior experience as a CISO, Deputy CISO, or equivalent senior security executive in a complex enterprise environment
Demonstrated experience leading large-scale security transformation initiatives
Strong executive presence with experience presenting to Boards, C-suites, and senior government officials
Deep understanding of enterprise security architecture, cloud security, risk management, and governance frameworks
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate technical risk into business impact
Intellectual curiosity about AI and a willingness to deeply engage with the unique security challenges posed by frontier AI systems

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:

$1—$2 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.

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.

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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