Senior Data Center Capacity Delivery Manager

About the Position

Senior Data Center Capacity Delivery Manager

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY

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

As a Senior Data Center Capacity Delivery Manager at Anthropic, you'll embed with project teams responsible for the delivery of leased and partnered data center capacity. Your primary role will be to lead these partners to deliver on the fastest possible schedule while maintaining a safe construction site and protecting the finished quality of the data center.

Additionally, you'll validate deal readiness, coordinate complex stakeholder relationships, maintain regular reporting and status tracking, and ensure seamless transitions from project inception through operational readiness.

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape how Anthropic secures and activates the compute infrastructure needed to train and deploy frontier AI systems, working at the intersection of real estate, construction, and cutting-edge AI infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Leadership: This is a role where leadership trumps management and process. You will be at one or more project sites 60% of the time or more and expected to shape the culture, approach, and aggressiveness that define those extended site teams. The goal is to impact outcomes in a favorable manner.
• Skill Development: You are expected to be a force multiplier that develops and enhances the skillset that development partners, general contractors, and key trades bring to the project(ss) you are overseeing. That means being a subject matter expert in the various cross-functional elements of data center delivery and increasing the team's performance with that knowledge and commitment to alignment.
• Deal Readiness: Confirm deal readiness and serve as the gatekeeper to validate transaction viability from Letter of Intent (LOI) through lease execution, ensuring all predevelopment, planning, technical, and business requirements are met before commitment.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Partner with landlords and developers post-deal to serve as Anthropic's primary point of contact, coordinating across internal stakeholders, tracking construction progress, and facilitating critical information exchange between development partners and Anthropic stakeholders.
• Technical Representation: Represent Anthropic in key technical and operational decisions required by partners during the development process, ensuring our infrastructure requirements are met while maintaining strong partnerships.
• Seamless Handoffs: Drive seamless handoffs to operational state with heavy focus on engagement across networking and deployment teams, enabling rapid workload turn-ups and minimizing time-to-production.
• Reporting: Prepare and present regular executive reporting on progress versus plan for facility development, supporting forward capacity planning and strategic decision-making.
• Risk Mitigation: Identify and mitigate risks throughout the delivery lifecycle, proactively addressing blockers that could impact timeline, cost, or technical requirements.
• Process Improvement: Develop and refine standardized processes and playbooks for facility delivery, driving continuous improvement as Anthropic scales its infrastructure footprint.

Requirements

• Experience: 10+ years of experience in the highest level of site leadership managing data center delivery, construction projects, or infrastructure deployment at scale. You won’t have a big direct team to delegate to but will instead be able to treat the entire cross-functional organizations at a jobsite as your team.
• Knowledge: A strong understanding of the end-to-end (dirt to delivery) data center development process to include entitlements and permitting, planning and supply chain, execution, commissioning, and handover. You are not an administrator but an active player in the arena comfortable making decisions and guiding delivery execution without the need to consult across multiple external parties.
• Approach: You should understand data center design and construction as a simple and repeatable process that allows you to build and optimize delivery without a playbook and with minimal processes and tools handed to you. If you can think about building a data center the way kids might build a tree fort or construct a lego set, we want to talk.
• Ambiguity: You must thrive operating with ambiguity and have a willingness to own project outcomes, knowing that the buck stops with you.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: In this role, it is imperative that you are as comfortable in boots on a job site working to solve productivity issues with a group of blue-collar trades as you are working across executives at development and contractor partners to optimize contract and commercial structures that incentivize delivery speed.

Nice to Have

• AI/ML Infrastructure: Understanding AI/ML infrastructure requirements, including high-density power and advanced cooling systems.
• Leadership Experience: Leadership positions (General Superintendent, Project Manager) within a GC or EPC on hyperscale data center projects or in self-performance of hyperscale data center development projects.
• Ownership: Prioritize extreme ownership and have the ability to create winning cultures across diverse job sites.
• Contracts and Real Estate: Deeply familiar with lease negotiations, construction contracts, or real estate development processes and have strategies to move those arrangements from traditionally transaction and risk-managed arrangements to collaborative efforts that align incentives around accelerated delivery of facilities.

We Offer

• Compensation: Annual Salary: $365,000 - $435,000 USD
• Education: Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Field of Study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
• Experience: Minimum years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position.
• Hybrid Policy: 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.

About the Company

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.

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.