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Staff Software Engineer, Growth
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 growth engineers to join our growth team. This key role will help drive user acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetization through data-driven strategies and technical implementations. At Anthropic, we're not just building AI tools; we're reimagining how AI can enhance and expand its user base! As a member of the growth team, you will have a unique opportunity to shape our growth strategy. You will work with a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, marketers, and product managers to design, implement, and optimize growth initiatives that scale our AI-powered tools and maximize their impact.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and implement technical solutions to support user acquisition, activation, retention, and revenue growth

• Design and execute A/B tests and experiments to optimize user onboarding, feature adoption, subscription conversion, and overall product experience

• Collaborate with product and marketing teams to identify growth opportunities and translate them into technical requirements

Minimum qualifications

• Experience working on user growth (acquisition, activation, retention, monetization) or have worked in a revenue focused organization like ads.

• Have experience full-stack development (web/React and backend), and experience with data analysis and experimentation frameworks

• Take a data-driven approach to problem-solving, with a keen eye for identifying patterns and opportunities in user behavior and metrics

• Are passionate about the potential of AI to reach and benefit a wide audience, and eager to tackle challenges in scaling AI products

• Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and enjoy working closely with cross-functional partners and teammates

Preferred qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer

• Have ideas for experiments to run to drive user growth or monetization

• Able to dive into data and identify opportunities

• Possess a vision for the future of AI product growth and a drive to make that vision a reality

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 salary for the role.

Annual Salary:
$320,000 — $405,000 USD

Logistics

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

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

For roles performing work in California: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.

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What this posting asks for

Level: Lead / staff — The title says "Staff".

Main responsibilities

Develop and implement technical solutions to support user acquisition, activation, retention, and revenue growth
Design and execute A/B tests and experiments to optimize user onboarding, feature adoption, subscription conversion, and overall product experience
Collaborate with product and marketing teams to identify growth opportunities and translate them into technical requirements
Experience working on user growth (acquisition, activation, retention, monetization) or have worked in a revenue focused organization like ads.
Have experience full-stack development (web/React and backend), and experience with data analysis and experimentation frameworks
Take a data-driven approach to problem-solving, with a keen eye for identifying patterns and opportunities in user behavior and metrics
Are passionate about the potential of AI to reach and benefit a wide audience, and eager to tackle challenges in scaling AI products
Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and enjoy working closely with cross-functional partners and teammates

Competencies an interviewer will look for

Teamwork and collaboration Core
In the posting: “You will work with a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, marketers, and product managers to design, implement, and optimize growth initiativ…” · “Collaborate with product and marketing teams to identify growth opportunities and translate them into technical requirements” · “Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and enjoy working closely with cross-functional partners and teammates”
Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled.
Data and analysis Core
In the posting: “This key role will help drive user acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetization through data-driven strategies and technical implementations.” · “You will work with a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, marketers, and product managers to design, implement, and optimize growth initiativ…” · “Have experience full-stack development (web/React and backend), and experience with data analysis and experimentation frameworks”
Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it.
Attention to detail and quality Core
In the posting: “Design and execute A/B tests and experiments to optimize user onboarding, feature adoption, subscription conversion, and overall product experience” · “Your safety matters to us.” · “This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, S…”
Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used.
Technical skill Core
In the posting: “Have experience full-stack development (web/React and backend), and experience with data analysis and experimentation frameworks” · “5+ years of experience as a software engineer”
Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off.
Communication Core
In the posting: “If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.” · “As such, we greatly value communication skills.”
Show it by: Adapts the message to the listener; Gives an example of explaining something clearly in writing or speech.
Planning and organisation Core
In the posting: “Experience working on user growth (acquisition, activation, retention, monetization) or have worked in a revenue focused organization like ads.” · “Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and enjoy working closely with cross-functional partners and teammates”
Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how.
Problem solving Supporting
In the posting: “Take a data-driven approach to problem-solving, with a keen eye for identifying patterns and opportunities in user behavior and metrics”
Show it by: Describes a real problem, the options considered and the one chosen; Shows how the cause was found, not just the fix.
Adaptability and learning Supporting
In the posting: “We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely…”
Show it by: Describes learning something new quickly and using it; Shows a change of plan and how they adjusted.
Stakeholder management Supporting
In the posting: “Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and enjoy working closely with cross-functional partners and teammates”
Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior.

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