Incident Response Manager - Privacy

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 Anthropic is working on frontier AI systems that handle sensitive information at enormous scale. How we protect that data, and how we build privacy into our systems rather than bolting it on afterward, is central to our mission of building AI that is safe and beneficial. We’re looking for an experienced Incident Response Manager to own and evolve incident management within the privacy team. This is a senior-level specialization on the Technical Program Manager ladder, focused on how we detect, respond to, and learn from privacy incidents. These incidents involve personal data subject to GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA and similar laws, and to the contractual commitments Anthropic makes to its customers. You’ll be the driving force behind maturing and scaling our incident response lifecycle, from detection and triage through containment, remediation, and post-incident review. Critically, some of the highest-impact work in this role happens after the immediate response: gathering data on incident trends, reporting on patterns and root causes, and working cross-functionally across engineering, security, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure that broad fixes and systemic improvements are actually implemented. You will partner closely with Privacy Legal on notifiability and communications, and with the Privacy Program team on executive and board reporting; this role owns the engineering-side programme, its metrics and its follow-through. You won’t just manage incidents: you’ll make sure we get meaningfully better after each one. Key responsibilities • Own the end-to-end privacy incident management program: detection workflows, response processes, escalation paths, communication standards, and remediation tracking. • Serve as incident commander for privacy incidents, driving clear coordination across executive, engineering, security, legal, and other appropriate stakeholders. • Establish and run incident commander rotations within privacy, ensuring clear ownership and effective coordination during incidents of varying severity. • Drive post-incident accountability by defining how action items are captured, assigned, tracked, and completed across teams, ensuring follow-through on both tactical fixes and strategic improvements. • Gather, analyze, and report on incident trends and patterns to surface systemic risks, recurring root causes, and areas where the organization is most vulnerable. • Translate trend analysis into actionable cross-functional initiatives: partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, and product teams to prioritize and implement broad fixes and preventive improvements that address root causes rather than symptoms. • Lead incident review forums (post-mortems, retrospectives) and ensure learnings are captured, socialized, and acted upon across the organization. • Partner with Privacy Legal on breach and notifiability assessments against regulatory timelines, coordinate customer and regulator communications when required, and keep privileged and non-privileged records appropriately separated. • Develop and maintain privacy incident response documentation, playbooks, runbooks, and training materials; keep them current as our products, data flows and obligations evolve. • Partner with detection engineering to improve alert fidelity, reduce noise, and shorten time-to-detection for privacy events. • Define, develop, and track incident management KPIs and report regularly to leadership. • Support broad cross-functional training and initiatives to uplevel privacy awareness across the company (e.g. Tabletop exercises, training, talks). Minimum qualifications • Have led or built incident response programs at a technology company, ideally in a high-growth or security-intensive environment. • Have a demonstrated track record of turning incident data into organizational improvements: not just writing post-mortems, but driving the cross-functional work to implement systemic fixes. • Are comfortable participating in on-call responsibilities and leading incident response during high-severity privacy events, including off-hours. • Have experience building and scaling operational processes from the ground up in environments where structure didn’t previously exist. • Excel at driving accountability and follow-through across multiple teams without direct authority—you know how to influence, track, and close the loop. • Have strong analytical skills and experience with incident trend analysis, metrics reporting, and data-driven prioritization. • Are highly organized with a knack for bringing structure to ambiguous, fast-moving situations. • Have excellent communication skills, especially under pressure and when coordinating across technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive leadership. • Thrive in fast-paced environments where priorities shift and you’re often working with incomplete information. Preferred qualifications • Have 7+ years of experience in technical program management, incident management, or security/privacy operations, with significant time spent in an incident response context. • Are familiar with privacy regulation and breach-notification obligations (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA or similar) and comfortable working with legal counsel under privilege, or have a legal background. Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be received on a rolling basis. 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 s