Senior Manager, Compute Infrastructure Procurement Operations Lease Administration

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 looking for a Lease Admin to own the operational layer of Anthropics Compute Infrastructure lease portfolio. That means data centers and co-location facilities GPU and TPU equipment finance leases. This role sits in Infrastructure Compute Procurement and partners closely with the Infrastructure Accounting team on anything that touches the financials. Decision rights on renewals and commercial terms stay with Infra and Workplace. Your job is to make sure the data is clean the dates are tracked the bills are right and the payments go out on time.

• Lease abstraction and system data hygiene ingest new leases and amendments into the LMS with clean complete data; maintain the record of truth across all portfolio categories
• Critical-date tracking and routing monitor renewal windows option deadlines and notice periods; flag and route decisions to the right stakeholders (Infra / Workplace) with enough lead time to act
• Landlord billing audits review landlord invoices against lease terms dispute errors and reconcile CAM charges across the co-location and real estate portfolio
• Rent payment processing and AP coding ensure rent and lease payments are processed accurately and on time; maintain correct GL coding at the source
• Landlord billing ops and payment escalations manage payment workflows and escalate commercial disputes to the appropriate Infra or Workplace relationship owner
• Lease system data stewardship and Workday integration keep the LMS in sync with Workday/ERP
• Support the accounting teams close cycle with clean subledger data and timely inputs

• Experience implementing or operating an LMS (CoStar Workday Lease or equivalent)
• A sharp eye for billing errors youve caught CAM discrepancies and wrong invoice amounts and know how to back them up with lease language
• Enough familiarity with ASC 842 to support an accounting team flag data problems upstream and maintain a defensible subledger
• AP process fluency - you understand how payments POs and GL coding work and can partner with a Finance Systems team to fix upstream data
• Comfort working in a fast-moving technical environment - our landlords are hyperscalers and hardware vendors not just office building owners
• Prior work in a SOX-compliant environment with documented lease controls

• 10 years of lease administration experience spanning data center/colo equipment or multi-category real estate portfolios
• Direct experience with data center or colo lease operations
• Workday Financials / Workday Lease experience
• AI first; creativity with automation reporting and efficiency with AI tools (preferably Claude)
• Experience in a high-growth tech company where the portfolio grew faster than the process
• Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure you know what a GPU cluster is and why the lease terms matter

Minimum education: Bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education training and/or experience

Required field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework training or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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.

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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.

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