Procurement 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.

About the Role

Were seeking a Procurement Business Partner to support Anthropics compute infrastructure operations. This role will execute procurement operations for our growing AI compute capacity working with our Infrastructure and Engineering teams to ensure efficient procurement workflows while maintaining financial discipline. Youll manage day-to-day procurement activities and contribute to process improvements as we scale our compute capabilities.

In this role you will:

• 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

• Provide invoice coding guidance for POs invoices and standard transactions

• Conduct vendor analysis to identify cost savings opportunities and provide data to support business negotiations

• Contribute to process improvement initiatives to standardize workflows and support automation efforts

• 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

• Maintain vendor and stakeholder relationships and support performance efforts

You may be a good fit if you:

• 4 years of experience in procurement or sourcing with exposure to infrastructure operations

• Familiarity with compute infrastructure components (servers GPUs networking cloud services)

• Solid understanding of procure-to-pay processes and purchase order management

• Experience with procurement systems (Zip Coupa SAP Ariba or similar)

• Experience with vendor analysis and cost savings identification

• Track record of contributing to process improvement initiatives

• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets

• Cross-functional collaboration experience working with diverse business stakeholders

• Business partnership mindset with ability to communicate complex processes to non-finance users

• Comfort working in fast-paced high-growth environments with some ambiguity

Strong candidates may have:

• Bachelors degree in Business Supply Chain Finance or related field

• Experience in technology company procurement or IT sourcing

• Familiarity with cloud procurement models (AWS Google Cloud Azure)

• Understanding of datacenter operations including power and infrastructure basics

• Experience supporting month-end close and financial reporting

• Background in vendor management and relationship development

• Awareness of financial controls and compliance requirements

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