AI Infra Transactions Lead (Data Center Leasing)

AlphaSense; United States; Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Transaction Manager to drive commercial sourcing and transaction execution for data center capacity deals. Youll lead RFP processes, negotiate term sheets, and coordinate across legal, finance, engineering, and network teams to close deals.

The role requires 10+ years in transaction management or related fields, strong negotiation, and excellent cross-functional collaboration. You will manage LOIs, provide risk assessments, and ensure alignment from sourcing to lease

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in transaction management, commercial real estate, data center leasing, or infrastructure procurement.
• Proven track record of managing complex, multi-stakeholder transactions from sourcing through execution.
• Strong negotiation skills with experience structuring term sheets, LOIs, and commercial agreements.
• Excel at project management and can coordinate across legal, technical, finance, and operational teams simultaneously.
• Experience with RFP processes and competitive sourcing for large-scale infrastructure or real estate transactions.
• Exceptional communication skills to liaison between internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail while focusing on strategic deal objectives.
• Able to operate in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where processes are built alongside execution.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to build trust across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Help identify data center capacity opportunities and options through management of network relationships across data center developer, broker, and power contacts.
• Lead the RFP and commercial sourcing process for specific data center deals, managing developer outreach, proposal evaluation, and competitive selection processes.
• Negotiate term sheets and manage the LOI process, structuring commercial terms that meet Anthropic's technical and business requirements while maintaining strong developer partnerships.
• Create the bridge from LOI to executed transaction, ensuring all commercial, technical, and legal requirements are satisfied for deal closure.
• Serve as project manager for cross-functional stakeholder engagement, coordinating due diligence teams, internal and external legal counsel, network organization, platform engineers, and finance organization to ensure alignment prior to lease execution.
• Act as the single point of contact (SPOC) for auxiliary organizations including networks, deployments, and government relations, providing regular updates on transaction progress and leasing process status.
• Develop and maintain transaction timelines, tracking critical path items and proactively identifying risks that could impact deal closure.
• Document and refine transaction processes and playbooks to enable scalable deal execution as Anthropic expands its infrastructure footprint.
• Ensure all stakeholder requirements are captured and addressed in commercial agreements, translating technical and operational needs into contractual terms.

Skills

Transaction management

Commercial negotiations

RFP processes

Project management

Stakeholder coordination

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Transaction Manager to drive commercial sourcing and transaction execution for data center capacity deals. Youll lead RFP processes, negotiate term sheets, and coordinate across legal, finance, engineering, and network teams to close deals.

The role requires 10+ years in transaction management or related fields, strong negotiation, and excellent cross-functional collaboration. You will manage LOIs, provide risk assessments, and ensure alignment from sourcing to lease