Privacy Manager Jobs in Renton, WA (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation focused on building reliable and beneficial AI systems. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their Privacy Engineering team, responsible for designing and operating privacy infrastructure that protects user data across AI systems. The role involves overseeing technical strategy, managing a team, and ensuring compliance with privacy regulations.
Responsibilities:
• Build and lead the team: Recruit, develop, and retain a team of exceptional privacy engineers; establish team charter, practices, and priorities as the team matures
• Drive technical strategy: Partner with technical leads, researchers, and legal to set direction for privacy infrastructure across training, inference, and product surfaces: data governance and policy enforcement, deletion and retention at scale, encryption and key management, audit and access transparency, and ML-based PII detection and redaction.
• Build foundational privacy infrastructure: Guide the team in building automated data discovery, classification, access controls, audit logging, and lifecycle management systems, plus data governance platforms for tracking lineage, purpose limitation, and retention across distributed AI systems
• Translate regulation into engineering: Ensure the team turns complex regulatory requirements (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, EU AI Act) into actionable technical implementations and automated compliance controls
• Lead privacy reviews at scale: Oversee technical privacy reviews and threat modeling for new AI models and features, identifying risks and architecting scalable mitigations
• Enable privacy by default: Champion privacy engineering toolkits and frameworks that let all engineers build privacy-preserving features by default, and embed privacy controls into Claude's inference systems, interfaces, and data pipelines
• Communicate and coordinate: Work closely with security, legal, data infrastructure, research, and go-to-market teams; clearly articulate dependencies, risks, and progress to stakeholders, and advocate for privacy as central to our mission of AI safety.
• Stay technically grounded: Maintain enough technical depth to understand your team's work, provide meaningful guidance, and credibly represent privacy concerns in cross-functional discussions
Qualifications:
Required:
• Significant experience managing engineering teams, including hiring and growing teams through periods of ambiguity and rapid change
• Deep expertise in privacy engineering principles: privacy by design, data minimization, and purpose limitation
• Strong technical foundation in data governance and privacy infrastructure (policy enforcement, deletion/retention/lineage systems, encryption key management, audit logging) and the ability to discuss them at a level that earns respect from senior ICs.
• Strong understanding of privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA) and the ability to translate legal requirements into technical solutions
• Experience with data governance, classification, and lifecycle management systems serving large user bases
• Ability to balance technical depth with pragmatic decision-making; you know when to dive deep and when to trust your team
• Strong communication skills: you can translate complex privacy challenges into business terms and vice versa
• Comfort with end-to-end ownership, including defining practices where industry precedent is thin
• 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
Preferred:
• 8+ years of experience managing technical teams
• Experience growing an engineering team and charter through a period of rapid company scaling.
• Experience conducting privacy reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments for production systems
• Proven track record of designing and implementing privacy infrastructure serving millions of users
• Experience at companies during periods of hypergrowth where you've scaled privacy alongside the business
• Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure and the unique privacy demands of large-scale training and inference
Company:
Anthropic is an artificial intelligence company that develops large language models and AI systems for business and research use. Founded in 2021, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.