Data Center Strategic Sourcing Lead - Construction

Candidate; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation & parental leave

Flexible working hours

SF office space

Job summary

Anthropic seeks a Strategic Sourcing lead to own end-to-end sourcing strategies for critical Data Center electrical and mechanical infrastructure, including generators, switchgear, UPS, chillers, and cooling equipment.

You will partner with engineering, demand planning, construction, and contractors to secure equipment availability, build vendor relationships, and negotiate favorable commercial agreements globally.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in supply chain management, sourcing, and procurement.
• Track record of developing forecasting, planning, and managing data center electrical/mechanical equipment.
• Familiarity with data center electrical/mechanical equipment (generators, switchgear, transformers, UPS, batteries, chillers, cooling towers, CRACs/CRAHs, pumps).
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive commercial negotiations and Master Purchase Agreements for critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure.
• Audit partner procurement schedules, optimize allocation, and drive cost efficiency in constrained markets.
• Implement frameworks ensuring third-party data center partners and general contractors adhere to terms and specs.
• Develop global inventory strategy including warehousing, 3PL, buffer stock, and distribution models.
• Monitor supply chain volatility and execute contingency plans to avoid delays.
• Translate construction and capacity roadmaps into equipment forecasts and procurement pipelines.
• Partner with Finance to optimize inventory and capital deployment.
• Establish efficient return, repair, and replacement workflows with OEMs.
• Negotiate warranty, startup/commissioning support, and spare parts terms, and track vendor performance.

Skills

Supply chain management

Sourcing

Procurement

Data center equipment knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

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

We are hiring a Strategic Sourcing lead to drive development and execution of procurement strategies to help scale Anthropic's Data Center electrical and mechanical Owner Furnished Equipment (OFE) footprint. In this role, you will own end-to-end sourcing strategies for critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure such as generators, switchgear, UPS systems, chillers, and cooling equipment. You will partner closely with engineering, demand planning, construction, and third parties to drive equipment 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.

Key responsibilities

• Drive commercial negotiations and Master Purchase Agreements for critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure such as generators, medium- and low-voltage switchgear, transformers, UPS systems, chillers, cooling towers, CRAHs, and pumps.

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

• Implement frameworks for ensuring third-party data center partners and general contractors adhere to commercial equipment terms and technical specifications.

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

• Proactively monitor global supply chain volatility (e.g., lead times for transformers, generators, and switchgear) and execute contingency plans to avoid critical project delays.

• Translate construction and capacity roadmaps into equipment forecasts and procurement pipelines.

• Partner with Finance to optimize inventory and capital deployment strategy.

• Establish efficient return, repair, and replacement workflows with OEMs to restore failed equipment quickly.

• Negotiate warranty, startup/commissioning support, and spare parts terms, and track vendor performance

Minimum qualifications

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

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

• Are familiar with data center electrical and mechanical equipment (e.g., generators, switchgear, transformers, UPS, batteries, chillers, cooling towers, CRAHs/CRACs, pumps, CDUs).

• Possess a bachelor's degree in a relevant domain (e.g., electrical/mechanical engineering, construction management, supply chain) or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred qualifications

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

• 5+ years experience in data center or critical environment infrastructure.

• Experience working with general contractors, MEP integrators, OEMs, and equipment distributors.

• Experience working on data center construction programs.

• Familiarity with liquid cooling equipment (CDUs, dry coolers, manifolds) and battery energy storage systems.

• Leadership and influencing skills.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:$320,000—$405,000 USD

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.