Procurement Operations Business Partner, Compute Infrastructure

About Anthropic

Anthropics 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.

Were seeking a Procurement Operations Business Partner to support Anthropics compute infrastructure. This role will be instrumental in managing procurement operations for our growing AI compute capacity. Youll work with our Infrastructure Security and Engineering teams to ensure efficient procurement workflows while maintaining financial discipline during this unprecedented scaling phase. This position sits at the intersection of cutting-edge AI infrastructure and strategic financial operations. Youll manage complex multi-party relationships and help establish procurement frameworks as we scale our compute capabilities to support our AI research and product person will be managing some of Anthropics largest capital decisions and most complex vendor relationships during a critical scaling phase.

Responsibilities:

• Review and validate Purchase Requests in Zip for appropriate documentation contract alignment and accurate accounting treatment
• Manage Purchase Orders including reviews updates and closure when fully billed or no longer expected maintaining organized tracking systems across high volumes of POs to ensure accurate project mapping and monitoring throughout the PO lifecycle
• Provide invoice coding guidance to AP team for non-PO invoices and complex transactions
• Conduct vendor analysis to identify cost savings opportunities and support business negotiations with data-driven insights
• Conduct financial analysis including explaining budget vs. actual and flux variance drivers and identifying early indicators of over/under pacing against budget targets
• Lead process improvement initiatives to standardize workflows and drive automation across departments
• Support month-end close activities including expense reviews accruals and reclass journal entries
• Train and onboard business owners and vendors on procurement processes and best practices
• Develop vendor relationships to drive strategic value and optimize performance across the organization

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 7 years of experience in procurement with 2 years in datacenter infrastructure operations
• Understanding of compute infrastructure components (servers GPUs/TPUs networking storage)
• Experience managing high-value complex procurement relationships
• Strong understanding of 2-way and 3-way match procure-to-pay processes and purchase order management
• Experience with procurement systems (Zip Coupa or similar)
• Capital-intensive procurement experience with datacenter buildouts power infrastructure and understanding components of long-lead-time equipment procurement
• Supply chain risk management for semiconductor/GPU shortages and vendor concentration risks
• Proven track record of process improvement and workflow optimization
• Analytical skills for vendor analysis cost savings identification and budget tracking
• Cross-functional collaboration experience working with diverse business stakeholders
• Business partnership mindset with ability to translate complex processes for non-finance users
• Growth company experience comfortable with ambiguity and rapid scaling environments

Strong candidates may have:

• Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Business or related field
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure procurement (GPUs TPUs high-performance computing)
• Knowledge of datacenter operations including power cooling and space planning
• Familiarity with cloud procurement models and enterprise agreements
• Background working with hyperscale cloud providers (AWS Google Cloud Azure)
• Awareness of supply chain challenges in semiconductor industry
• Understanding of datacenter security and compliance standards
• Background in vendor management and strategic relationship development
• Familiarity with SOX compliance and financial control frameworks

Deadline to apply:None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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 arent 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.

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 youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were 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.

How were 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. Were 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 aboutour policyfor using AI in our application process