Compute Country Lead, Canada

Anthropic; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Canada Compute Country Lead to own the national compute strategy, drive site selection, leasing, energy, financing, policy, and operations. You’ll coordinate a cross-functional team and represent Anthropic with government and industry partners in Canada.

The role requires building structure in a fast-growing program, with collaboration from centralized specialists and strong leadership across multiple workstreams in a high-ambition environment.

Qualifications

• Canadian national with established links into government and the energy industry preferred.
• Structured thinker who learns quickly and goes deep fast.
• Excellent communicator representing Anthropic to senior stakeholders.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct line authority.
• Hyper-organized with the ability to manage multiple workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end strategy and coordination for Canada's compute build-out.
• Lead cross-functional workstreams: leasing, financing, energy, policy, and operations.
• Provide in-country leadership and align with global compute priorities.
• Represent Anthropic to government officials, utilities, and energy providers in Canada.
• Track progress, surface risks, and coordinate across sites from pilots to gigawatts.
• Translate regulatory and market conditions in Canada to actionable plans.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Strategy development

Program coordination

Stakeholder management

Government engagement

Ambiguity tolerance

Team leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

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.

Compute Country Lead, Canada

Compute | Canada | Travel required

About the role

Anthropic is scaling compute internationally — growing our footprint in new countries. We’re hiring a Country Lead to be the single, accountable owner of our compute strategy in Canada: the person who leads a team of cross-functional experts driving site selection, leasing, energy, financing, government relations and policy, community engagement, construction, and operations. This person will be ultimately responsible for bringing gigawatts of compute online in Canada.

You won’t build this alone. The specialist functions — leasing, energy, policy, construction, finance — are hired and managed centrally by functional leads based in San Francisco. Your job is to provide cross-functional leadership over that team in-country: coordinating and driving accountability across workstreams, while representing Anthropic externally with government and industry counterparts in Canada.

This is a high-ambiguity, high-trust role for someone who can bring structure to a fast-growing, cross-functional effort without needing formal authority to do it.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end strategy and coordination for Anthropic’s compute build-out in Canada, from initial site selection through construction and operations. While each component will be run by subject matter experts, this role will act as the overall leader and coordinator of that team.




• Serve as the primary point of accountability for cross-functional workstreams; leasing, financing, energy, government relations/policy, community engagement, construction, and operations.




• Provide working leadership to the in-country cross-functional team, driving alignment and unblocking issues.




• Represent Anthropic with government officials, utilities, energy providers, and other external stakeholders in Canada.




• Build and maintain relationships within the Canadian government and the energy industry to support site, power, and policy outcomes.




• Track progress and surface risks across parallel workstreams as the country’s compute footprint scales from initial sites to multiple gigawatts.




• Translate between Anthropic’s global compute priorities and the specific regulatory, political, and market conditions in Canada.

Requirements

• Canadian national with established links into government and the energy industry strongly preferred.




• Structured thinker with a track record of learning new domains quickly and going deep fast.




• Excellent communicator, comfortable representing Anthropic to senior government, utility, and industry stakeholders.




• Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams without direct line authority.




• Hyper-organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to own multiple concurrent workstreams at once.




• Comfortable with ambiguity; a problem solver who drives structure into undefined situations.




• Background in energy, infrastructure, or a related sector.

Nice to have

• Prior experience with large-scale infrastructure or datacenter development.




• Existing relationships with Canadian federal or provincial government bodies relevant to energy, land use, or industrial development.




• Experience managing or overseeing capital-intensive projects.




• Familiarity with the compute, cloud, or datacenter industry.

Logistics

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.

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.