Data Center Portfolio Lead

About Anthropic

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.

About the role

Anthropic is rapidly scaling our compute infrastructure across a portfolio of data center builds with multiple developer partnerships. The Data Center Portfolio & Planning team owns the integrated view of that supply: compute allocation, decision locks, forecasting, and the frameworks that underpin all of it.

We’re looking for a Data Center Portfolio Lead to manage the portfolio itself — the sites, the partners behind them, and the decisions each site has to clear on its way to operational readiness. You will be the source of truth on where every site stands, and the person who defines how each one moves from negotiation to deployment. You will build the stage gates, cadence, and tooling that establishes a true program rather than case-by-case execution.

This is a highly cross-functional role, working closely with our site selection, energy, supply chain, engineering, and delivery teams, as well as external partners.

• Manage the portfolio overall: each site’s status, milestones, decisions taken, open items, and risks
• Lead the portfolio reviews that ground our teams on the current state of supply, decisions needed, and downstream impacts
• Architect and run the stage-gate framework - the criteria, approvals, and owners at each gate - that standardizes how a site moves from negotiation through lease execution, design and chip lock, construction, and handoff to operations
• Work with the planning and design teams to decide each site’s chip allocation ahead of deadlines
• Act as the primary point of contact between strategic partners and internal stakeholders, drive execution to critical milestones, and keep partners consistent across site selection, design, supply chain, and delivery
• Develop AI-driven tooling and data pipelines that automate project updates across the portfolio

You may be a good fit if you

• Have managed data center or comparable capital-intensive infrastructure at scale
• Have owned an external development or partner relationship, and know how to hold both sides to their commitments
• Have built or run a stage-gate or milestone framework, and gotten teams to fully adopt it
• Are fluent in the constraints - such as power, cooling, design, and delivery dates - that determine where hardware can go and when that choice has to lock
• Have automated your own reporting with tooling or data pipelines

Strong candidates may also have

• Technical program management experience on capital projects, running delivery across multiple concurrent builds
• Management consulting or internal strategy background, bringing structure to ambiguous problems and building the cadence that keeps them moving
• Experience with accelerator or server fleet planning and the data center designs they require
• Experience on the commercial side of these agreements, whether negotiating a lease, a framework agreement, or managing one after signature

Minimum education: Bachelor’s 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 aren't 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.

Annual Salary: $320,000 - $405,000 USD

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