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Safeguards Enforcement Lead, User Well-Being

Lead the Safeguards Enforcement team to manage child safety and mental health workflows in a growing AI company.

Location
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC
Compensation
$285k–$330k/yr
Level
lead
Type
full time · Hybrid

Posted by employer 2 months ago

First seen on Joblaze 2 months ago

Last verified on the company career page 10 hours ago

Skills & Technologies

Requirements

Education
Bachelor's degree
Visa
Sponsorship available

Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience.

Benefits

Unlimited PTO Equity/Stock Options Remote Work Health Insurance Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

The Safeguards Enforcement Lead on the User Well-Being team at Anthropic oversees the management of workflows related to child safety, mental health, and abuse prevention. This role requires expertise in trust and safety operations, with a focus on scaling enforcement processes and collaborating with engineering and policy teams to enhance detection systems. Ideal candidates will have a background in content moderation and experience managing teams in sensitive areas. The position involves regular exposure to explicit content, necessitating a strong commitment to team well-being.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed about 2 months ago — first seen on Joblaze September 2, 2026. Last confirmed on Anthropic's careers page November 10, 2026.
  • Salary band is above the typical range for Management roles (median ~$172,080).
  • Starts above 73% of 88 comparable lead management roles in United States that list AI/ML we track (median $244,000 across 34 companies). See AI/ML salary trends
  • AI/ML appears in 22.9% of 633 comparable lead management roles in United States; SQL appears in 3.3% of 633 comparable lead management roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Safeguards Enforcement Lead, User Well-Being role remote?
It's hybrid — Anthropic expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC.
What's the salary range?
Anthropic lists $285,000–$330,000 for this role.
Where is the role based?
Anthropic is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Python, SQL.
Does Anthropic sponsor work visas for this role?
Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
What seniority level is this role?
Anthropic targets lead candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Safeguards Enforcement Lead, User Well-Being role at Anthropic.

From the original posting

About Anthropic

About the role

As a Safeguards Enforcement Lead on the User Well-Being team, you will be responsible for managing our child safety, mental health, abuse and exploitation, and age assurance enforcement workflows. This will include managing the team responsible for scaling, maintaining, and continuously improving the systems and processes we use to detect and respond to these harms.

This is a management role. You will serve as the central point of contact for those who conduct content review, managing day-to-day workflows, quality assurance, and escalation processes. You will also work closely with internal Engineering, Policy, and Legal teams to scale detection systems and close enforcement gaps as the threat landscape evolves.

Important context for this role: In this position you will regularly be exposed to and engage with explicit content of a sexual nature involving minors, as well as content that may be violent or psychologically disturbing. Anthropic takes the wellbeing of team members working in this area seriously and provides access to wellness resources and support. Candidates should carefully consider this aspect of the role before applying.

Key responsibilities

  • Manage a team of individual contributors across multiple policy areas under the User Well-Being banner

  • Serve as the primary point of contact for review partners conducting content review, including onboarding, training, quality assurance, and ongoing relationship management

  • Design and improve enforcement workflows to scale effectively as volume grows, while maintaining high accuracy and consistency across review decisions

  • Partner with Engineering and Data Science teams to optimize detection models and automated enforcement systems for User Well-Being policies

  • Develop and maintain internal documentation, decision trees, and review guidelines that enable accurate and consistent enforcement at scale

  • Keep up to date with emerging AI policy enforcement best practices, evolving legal frameworks, and developments in technology, and use these to inform our workflows

  • Identify and report trends in misuse patterns to internal stakeholders, including Policy, Legal, and Trust & Safety leadership

  • Coordinate reporting obligations to relevant external bodies (e.g., NCMEC) in accordance with applicable law and Anthropic policy

Minimum qualifications

  • Experience managing teams in the User Well-Being space

  • Experience in trust & safety, content moderation operations, or policy enforcement with direct exposure to child safety, mental health, abuse and exploitation, and age assurance harm areas

  • Experience managing or coordinating content review operations, including quality assurance and workflow management

  • Experience standing up and scaling policy enforcement or content review workflows

  • Proficiency in SQL and/or other data analysis tools to monitor workflow health, review queue metrics, and surface enforcement trends

  • Experience identifying emerging risks and communicating findings to cross-functional stakeholders, such as Product, Policy, Engineering, and Legal teams

  • Understanding of the challenges involved in implementing product policies at scale in the content moderation space

Preferred qualifications

  • Deep subject matter expertise in child safety, child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA), online child protection, mental wellness, and age assurance

  • Experience working with or reporting to NCMEC, IWF, or equivalent child safety reporting bodies

  • Familiarity with relevant legal and regulatory frameworks, including CSAM reporting obligations, KOSA, COPPA, or equivalent international frameworks

  • Experience working with generative AI products, including an understanding of how AI systems can be misused to generate or facilitate abusive content

  • Experience designing or evaluating trauma-informed support structures and wellness protocols for content reviewers working with harmful material

  • Proficiency in Python for workflow automation or data analysis

  • Experience working with hash-matching technologies (e.g., PhotoDNA, CSAI Match) or perceptual hashing tools used in CSAM detection

  • Familiarity with age assurance technologies and their role in child safety enforcement

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

Annual Salary:
$285,000—$330,000 USD

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