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 Anthropic has an ambitious mission with high stakes and tight timelines. In some cases, the talent we need to achieve our vision can't be accessed through traditional recruiting alone. That's where M&A comes in, and this role is what keeps it running smoothly. We're looking for a Recruiting M&A Program Specialist to join our Talent team and coordinate the interview experience behind our acquisition hiring. You'll be a key point of contact across Corporate Development, Legal, People, and the technical organization, coordinating interviews and guiding candidates and incoming employees from first conversation through to their start date. Your work will be challenging and unique, and it directly supports Anthropic's efforts to remain on the frontier. Role required to work out of the Anthropic San Francisco Office - Relocation available. Responsibilities Program manage recruiting activities across Corporate Development, Legal, People, and technical leadership, keeping everyone informed, bringing solutions on what needs attention, and keeping the process moving. Educate and enable deal sponsors and cross functional partners on standard approaches for M&A recruiting, interviewing and processes. Operationalize the playbooks and processes that keep acquisition hiring organized and consistent, and partner closely with recruiting systems and analytics to evolve the program over time. Scope and run the recruiting workstream for each deal, from first conversation through start dates. Be a primary point of contact for candidates, delivering a warm, high-touch, and discreet experience from first conversation through
Program Manager, Talent Acquisition
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Perplexity is scaling at a pace few companies ever experience, and talent is the surface where our biggest bets get won or lost. We're hiring a Program Manager to sit at the center of that motion, owning the mission-critical, cross-functional programs that shape how we plan, prioritize, and hire. This is a uniquely visible seat, reserved for operators who thrive in ambiguity and have a track record of driving companywide initiatives to measurable outcomes. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with recruiting leadership, executives, and cross-functional partners to architect the systems, operating rhythms, and decision-making frameworks that let the company move faster and with more clarity. When a complex, high-stakes program needs an owner, you're the person leadership turns to. What You'll Do Own Perplexity's most consequential talent programs end-to-end, from ambiguous mandate to shipped
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