Threat Intel Manager, Influence Operations & Surveillance
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 We are looking for a threat intel manager to build and run our Influence Operations & Surveillance team within Threat Intelligence. This team detects, investigates, and disrupts the misuse of Anthropic's AI systems for influence operations, coordinated inauthentic behavior, and surveillance operations by authoritarian states and the commercial spyware ecosystem. This is a ground-floor leadership role. The mission area today produces some of our most consequential casework and external reporting almost entirely through manual investigation; you will stand up its purpose-built detection capabilities, set the strategy for how a frontier AI company finds and counters state-linked information manipulation and surveillance misuse, and you'll personally be involved with the most complex investigations. Important context: In this position you may be exposed to explicit content spanning a range of topics, including those of a sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature. This role may require responding to escalations during weekends and holidays. Key responsibilities - Own strategy, priorities, and outcomes for the Influence Operations & Surveillance threat intel mission area - Hire, manage, and develop a small team of technical threat investigators with IO and surveillance expertise - Personally lead investigations into state-linked surveillance misuse including commercial spyware vendors and surveillance products whose end customers are authoritarian governments and AI-enabled influence campaigns - Stand up the mission area's first automated detection: abuse signals, behavioral clustering, and coordinated-network detection tailored to information manipulation and surveillance tooling - Conduct cross-platform analysis linking on-platform activity to broader campaigns across social media, messaging platforms, and the spyware supply chain - Attribute campaigns to specific actors, with particular focus on state-sponsored operations from geopolitically significant regions - Own external engagement: government partners, platform integrity teams, academic and civil-society researchers, and threat intelligence sharing communities - Drive public and partner-facing reporting on AI-enabled IO and surveillance, and inform safety-by-design strategies as multimodal and agentic capabilities reshape the landscape Minimum qualifications - Have deep subject matter expertise in influence operations, coordinated inauthentic behavior, or state surveillance / commercial spyware ecosystems - Have led investigative teams or threat intel teams. - Have demonstrated proficiency in SQL and Python for data analysis and threat detection - Have experience attributing campaigns to specific threat actors, including state-sponsored operations - Have strong OSINT tradecraft for investigating online information ecosystems - Have hands-on experience with large language models and how they can be weaponized for IO and surveillance - Can present analytic