Threat Intel Manager, Model Exploitation & Fraud

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 Model Exploitation and Fraud team within Threat Intelligence. This team detects, investigates, and disrupts the large-scale exploitation of Anthropic s AI systems. Model distillation, unauthorized access, account farming and reseller abuse, and fraud and scam operations. You will set the strategy for the mission area, hire and lead a small team of technical investigators, and build the systems, processes, and partnerships that let the team scale. The team includes established senior investigators who own our deepest technical casework, tracing distillation networks, reseller and proxy ecosystems, and financially motivated actors across first-party surfaces and third-party platforms; your job is to direct, resource, and amplify that work, not duplicate it. This area carries regular U.S. government engagement and requires deeply understanding external black market ecosystems and how they interact with our systems. 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 Model Exploitation and Fraud mission area; define what we detect, investigate, action, and share Hire, manage, and develop a team of technical threat investigators; set the quality bar for casework and intelligence reporting Design clear lanes between this role and the team s senior individual contributors: strategy, people leadership, and program ownership sit with you, while ownership of the deepest technical investigations and tradecraft stays with the senior experts closest to the work Capable of independently leading complex investigations. Direct, prioritize, and resource complex investigations into model distillation, unauthorized AI R and D usage, unauthorized access, coordinated account abuse, and fraud/scam networks, partnering with the senior investigators who lead the deepest technical casework and clearing