Data Center Capacity Delivery, Canada

EngineersOfAI; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic seeks a Senior Data Center Capacity Delivery Manager to embed with project teams delivering leased data center capacity. You will lead partners to meet aggressive schedules while maintaining safe sites and high quality.

This role blends real estate, construction, and AI infrastructure, requiring stakeholder coordination and clear executive reporting to shape compute assets for frontier AI systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in senior site leadership for data center delivery or similar infrastructure.
• Deep understanding of end-to-end data center development, including entitlements, permitting, planning and supply chain.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and make decisions without heavy admin overhead.

Responsibilities

• Lead on-site teams 60%+ and shape culture, approach, and aggressiveness on extended sites.
• Develop and enhance partners' skills; act as SME in data center delivery and cross-functional elements.
• Confirm deal readiness and validate transaction viability from LOI through lease execution.
• Coordinate with landlords and developers post-deal; be Anthropic's primary contact with internal stakeholders.
• Represent Anthropic in technical and operational decisions required by partners.
• Drive seamless handoffs to operational state; enable rapid workload turn-ups.
• Prepare and present executive reports on progress versus plan and capacity planning.
• Identify and mitigate risks throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Develop standardized processes and playbooks for facility delivery.

Skills

Data center delivery

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Construction project management

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.

About the role

As a Senior Data Center Capacity Delivery Manager at Anthropic, you'll embed with project teams responsible for 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

• Lead. 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.

• 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(s) 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Prepare and present regular executive reporting on progress versus plan for facility development, supporting forward capacity planning and strategic decision-making

• Identify and mitigate risks throughout the delivery lifecycle, proactively addressing blockers that could impact timeline, cost, or technical requirements

• Develop and refine standardized processes and playbooks for facility delivery, driving continuous improvement as Anthropic scales its infrastructure footprint

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 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 too but will instead be able to treat the entire cross functional organizations at a jobsite as your team.

• Have 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.

• 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 m