Director, Compute Infrastructure Procurement

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.

About Anthropic

Anthropic 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 seeking a Procurement Business Partner Leader to support Anthropic rapidly scaling compute infrastructure operations. This role is critical in managing procurement workflows for our AI compute capacity while maintaining financial discipline and operational excellence during unprecedented growth.

As a key member of our finance procurement team you will partner closely with Infrastructure Security and Engineering teams to optimize vendor relationships drive cost savings and will be responsible for establishing scalable procurement frameworks. You are the bridge between Infrastructure Finance Legal and Security. You will be responsible for designing and delivering scalable procurement solutions that are audit ready.

Responsibilities:

• Building the operating models set up for scalable procurement (systems flows governance structures)
• Designing DRI/RACI frameworks for cross-functional handoffs
• Ensuring controls meet audit-readiness standards from the start
• Conduct vendor analysis to identify cost savings opportunities and support business negotiations
• Conduct financial analysis including explaining budget vs. actual and flux variance drivers and identifying early indicators of over/under pacing against budget targets
• Defining controls and SLAs specific to hardware supplier onboarding receiving/inspection workflows and CapEx tagging
• Ensuring supplier master data PO data and hardware asset classifications meet accounting requirements
• Establishing reconciliation routines for materials receipts and supplier payments and ensuring we have strong controls that enable us to track liabilities and manage supplier payments with confidence
• Train and onboard business owners and vendors on procurement processes and best practices
• Coordinate with the Compute/Infrastructure engineering team and ensure their approved vendors meet procurement requirements
• Build and maintain interim reconciliation workbooks to provide Finance Legal and Security with complete visibility until systems are operationalized
• Develop strategic vendor relationships to drive strategic value and optimize performance across the organization
• Embed Claude into key procurement workflows (intake onboarding PO management reconciliation) to reduce manual effort and improve cycle times.

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 10 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 Workday ERP or similar)
• Capital-intensive procurement experience with datacenter buildouts power infrastructure and understanding components of long-lead-time equipment procurement
• 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
• Growth company experience comfortable with ambiguity and rapid scaling environments

Strong candidates may have:

• Bachelor 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
• 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.

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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