Program Manager, US K-12 Education

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 Beneficial Deployments

Beneficial Deployments ensures AI reaches and benefits the communities that need it most. We partner with nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven organizations to deploy Claude in education, global health, economic mobility, and life sciences, focusing on raising the floor.

About the Role

We're looking for a Program Manager to shape and grow our US K-12 education initiatives. You'll build and manage partnerships focused on closing the achievement gap, equipping teachers in Title I and other underserved schools with AI teaching assistants that enable them to provide the individualized attention previously reserved for well-resourced schools.

This is a foundational role where you'll shape our strategy for working with school districts, teacher unions, innovative schools, edtech partners, and foundations to bring AI into classrooms that need it most. You'll navigate the complex landscape of US public education while moving quickly to deploy solutions on top of the Claude API that help teachers and students.

The right person will combine deep relationships in K-12 education, technical fluency with LLMs, and the entrepreneurial drive to build something new at the frontier of AI.

This role is distinct from our Account Executive function: while AEs drive scaled adoption of Anthropic's core products, Program Managers build deep partnerships that require custom deployments, research collaboration, and hands-on program design. You'll work with a smaller portfolio of flagship partners where the goal is driving impact metrics and creating learnings that benefit the broader ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute Anthropic's US K-12 education strategy, managing partnerships with edtech companies, districts, unions, innovative schools, and foundations

• Grow existing partnerships with a focus on Title I schools and underserved student populations, as well as identify, evaluate, and onboard new partners as needed

• Serve as the primary relationship owner for flagship US K-12 education partners requiring custom deployments (distinct from standard product sales), coordinating with Applied AI, product, and GTM teams to deliver impact

• Work closely with partners to understand their technical and operational needs and translate them into deployment plans

• Navigate the procurement, privacy, and policy landscape of US public education to enable successful deployments

• Set a research agenda for understanding AI's impact on K-12 learning, partnering with external organizations to study the efficacy of interventions

• Identify opportunities to create technical public goods -- open-source tools, datasets, and research -- that benefit the broader ecosystem

• Work cross-functionally with product and research teams to identify ways to improve Claude for education use cases

• Represent Anthropic at K-12 education convenings and conferences

• Help shape team processes and culture as we scale our education work

• Identify when partnership opportunities are better suited for our scaled sales motion and hand off appropriately to Account Executives

• Travel to partner sites for workshops, district meetings, and relationship building; candidates based outside SF should expect visits to headquarters every 6 weeks

You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have

• 7+ years of experience in K-12 education, edtech, or related fields

• 3+ years of experience managing external partnerships, grantmaking, or multi-stakeholder initiatives

• Deep relationships and credibility in the US K-12 ecosystem: you know how to work with districts, unions, and state education agencies

• Technical fluency to engage credibly on AI concepts, understand LLM capabilities and limitations, and partner effectively with technical teams

• Analytical mindset with experience using data to inform strategy and measure impact

• Direct experience working with school districts on technology adoption, curriculum implementation, or similar initiatives

• An entrepreneurial mindset: you've built programs or organizations from scratch, likely at startups or in founding roles

• A genuine drive to maximize impact for underserved students

• High agency and comfort with ambiguity; you thrive when you're building the plane while flying it

• Strong prioritization skills and the ability to manage a high volume of partnerships and opportunities

• Understanding of the unique challenges facing Title I schools and underserved student populations

• Willingness to travel extensively

Strong Candidates May Also Have

• Experience working with philanthropic foundations on K-12 education initiatives

• Background in classroom teaching or school administration

• Experience at edtech companies, AI organizations, or in product-adjacent roles

• Familiarity with education research, evidence-based interventions, and learning science

• Experience working with teacher unions or understanding of union dynamics in education