Data Center Strategic Sourcing 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.

Data Center IT Strategic Sourcing 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

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.

Responsibilities:

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Drive commercial negotiations and Master Service Agreements for critical IT infrastructure such as networking equipment, fiber connectivity, compute hardware.

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Audit partner procurement schedules, ensure optimal allocation, and drive cost efficiency of supply in constrained markets.

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Implement frameworks for ensuring third-party datacenter partners adhere to commercial equipment terms and technical specifications.

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Develop global inventory strategy including warehousing, third-party logistics, buffer stock, and distribution models to accelerate time to market and improve availability

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Proactively monitor global supply chain volatility and execute contingency plans to avoid critical project delays.

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Translate technical roadmaps into equipment forecasts and procurement pipelines.

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Partner with Finance to optimize inventory strategy.

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Establish efficient return and replacement workflows with vendors to restore failed equipment quickly.

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Negotiate warranty terms and track vendor performance on RMA execution.

You may be a good fit if you:

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Have 7+ years experience in supply chain management, sourcing and procurement

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Have a track record of developing processes for forecasting, planning, and managing data center material for build-out and/or operations.

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Are familiar with data center network and compute hardware (e.g. switches, routers, cables, servers, PDUs, etc).

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Possess a bachelor's degree in relevant domain or equivalent practical experience.

It's a bonus if you have:

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10+ years experience in supply chain management, sourcing and procurement.

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5+ years experience in data center infrastructure.

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Experience working with general contractors, integrators and suppliers.

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Experience working on data center construction programs.

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Leadership and influencing skills.

The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.

Annual Salary:
$290,000—$365,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's 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 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.

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 you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're 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 we're 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. We're 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 about our policy for using AI in our application process