Data Center Strategic Sourcing Lead

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2 class="heading"><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p> <h2 class="heading"><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>We are hiring an Strategic Sourcing lead to drive development and execution of procurement strategies to help scale Anthropic’s Data Center IT equipment footprint. In this role, you will own end-to-end sourcing strategies for critical IT infrastructure such as fiber, network switch gear, and high performance compute systems. You will partner closely with engineering, demand planning, and third-parties to drive hardware availability, establish vendor relationships, and negotiate commercial agreements. As a sourcing lead focused on key Data Center equipment you will play a critical role in helping Anthropic to achieve its ambitious scaling goals.</p> <h2 class="heading"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h2> <ul> <li> <p>Drive commercial negotiations and Master Service Agreements for critical IT infrastructure such as networking equipment, fiber connectivity, compute hardware.</p> </li> <li> <p>Audit partner procurement schedules, ensure optimal allocation, and drive cost efficiency of supply in constrained markets.</p> </li> <li> <p>Implement frameworks for ensuring third-party datacenter partners adhere to commercial equipment term