Director, Infrastructure Compute Procurement

Director, Infrastructure Compute Procurement

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.

Anthropic is seeking a Director of Infrastructure Compute Procurement to build and lead the function responsible for how Anthropic procures, tracks, and governs its compute infrastructure assets s is a function‑building role within the Finance org.

You will own supplier strategy, cost optimization, and category management for one of the largest and most complex capital procurement portfolios in AI. You will simultaneously operationalize three enterprise‑scale initiatives: a multi‑entity procurement structure spanning domestic and international jurisdictions, a compliance‑critical Asset Lifecycle Management program and procurement operations for Anthropic data center sites across the US with international expansion underway.

This role reports directly to the Head of Procurement and serves as the senior procurement leader embedded with Infrastructure Accounting, Finance, Tax, Legal, and DC Operations. You are building the team, the playbooks, and the systems that will govern billions of dollars in compute infrastructure spend.

• Own key supplier relationships across compute hardware (networking, storage, racks, power infrastructure) and negotiate pricing frameworks, and volume commitments
• Establish playbooks and sourcing strategies for hyperscale infrastructure procurement
• Drive material savings through partnering with strategic sourcing teams within the Data Center Design and Ops teams, vendor consolidation, and commercial optimization across a multi‑billion dollar spend portfolio
• Support contract negotiations and understand the liabilities and obligations with compute vendors

• Operationalize new entity for tax‑optimized procurement of data center and infrastructure equipment
• Stand up international procurement operations as local entities are formed. Manage vendor contracting party transitions, contract novation/repapering, local vendor onboarding, KYC, and VAT/GST registration
• Partner with Tax and Legal on entity structure decisions, ensuring procurement workflows align with the interim‑to‑permanent entity transition framework

• Serve as Procurement’s DRI on ALM implementation (Steerco and OpCo), owning the Asset Taxonomy and Zip/Three‑Way Match work streams and implementing with the business
• Drive PO data remediation (unit price, quantity, MPN) and configure PO item types to enable automated three‑way match (PO receipt invoice) at serial‑number granularity
• Enforce ASN compliance as a contractual condition on all new POs; standardize shipping terms across vendor contracts
• Ensure procurement controls meet all audit requirements

• Lead finance procurement operations for domestic data center sites and international expansion, managing concurrent buildouts with developers and partner operators
• Manage BOM‑to‑PO reconciliation, equipment logistics, shipping coordination, and delivery tracking across all active sites
• Build and maintain interim reconciliation workbooks and dashboards to provide Finance, Legal, and Security with complete procurement visibility until systems are fully operationalized

• Hire and lead a dedicated Lease Admin Lead; own the build‑out of the lease administration function (people, process, and systems)
• Own implementation of the lease administration platform, partnering with Infra/Workplace, Finance, and Accounting on configuration, data migration, and operational workflows; ensure upstream lease data accuracy (abstraction, system data hygiene)
• Ensure critical dates (renewals, options, notices) are tracked and routed to the appropriate stakeholders; decision rights on renewals and options remain with Infra/Workplace
• Oversee reconciliations and landlord billing audits
• Oversee landlord billing operations and…