Data Center Supply Planning Lead

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

Job summary

Anthropic in San Francisco is seeking a Data Center Supply Planning Lead to own the integrated view of compute supply and site pipeline. You’ll drive the plan linking capacity targets to the delivery roadmap, prioritizing opportunities and shaping portfolio-level decisions.

In this cross-functional role, you’ll partner with site selection, engineering, delivery, and demand planning to build forecasts, develop supply models, and ensure readiness as the portfolio grows.

Qualifications

• Led supply/capacity planning for data centers or similar infrastructure.
• Architected planning processes and cadence with continuous improvement.
• Built planning models/tools with automation and AI-assisted development.
• Proactively surface opportunities and risk across functions and drive resolution.

Responsibilities

• Build the integrated data center supply forecast and planning assumptions behind it: committed plus pipeline supply by site, design, and accelerator type.
• Own portfolio view of chip-to-site allocation and decision cadence; surface trade-offs and communicate changes.
• Support and evolve data center portfolio reviews showing current state of supply and downstream impacts.
• Partner with program management, delivery, and demand planning to keep hall readiness and install plans in sync.
• Build and run scenario analyses; develop solvers to close gaps.
• Plan long-lead resources to create inventory optionality and allocate strategically.

Skills

Data center planning

Capacity planning

Portfolio management

S&OP

Optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree

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

Anthropic is rapidly scaling our compute infrastructure across a portfolio of data center builds with multiple developer partnerships. The Data Center Planning team owns the integrated view of that supply: compute allocation, decision locks, forecasting, and the frameworks that underpin all of it. We’re looking for a versatile Data Center Supply Planning Lead to help build the plan for data center delivery. This role has a broad view of the portfolio: you will drive the supply model that ties our compute supply and capacity targets to the site pipeline, use it to prioritize which opportunities we pursue and how we configure them, and turn the reasoning into principles as the portfolio grows. You will also have a deep understanding of our active sites, and will build supply forecasts that our partners mobilize against and internal teams rely on. This is a highly cross‑functional role that will work closely with our site selection, engineering, delivery, and demand planning teams on the framework and processes that move sites to operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Build the integrated data center supply forecast and planning assumptions behind it: committed plus pipeline supply - by site, design, and accelerator type - against growth targets
• Own the portfolio view of chip‑to‑site allocation and decision cadence: surface the trade‑offs, drive the lock points, and communicate changes to the broader org
• Support and evolve data center portfolio reviews that ground our teams on the current state of supply, decisions needed, and downstream impacts
• Partner with technical program management, delivery, and demand planning teams so that hall readiness, install plans, and chip supply stay in sync as any of the three moves
• Build and run scenarios: assess what happens to the plan if a delivery date, chip tranche, or a target changes; and develop solvers that recommend how to close gaps
• Plan for the long‑lead resources we should hold in inventory to create optionality and how they should be allocated strategically
• Shape the process by which a new site enters delivery tracking, and the change‑management process by which a date change flows to downstream teams
• Support the buildout of a delivery planning system‑of‑record; partner with our internal tooling team on the build

You may be a good fit if you

• Have led supply/capacity planning or portfolio management for data centers, power, or similar capital‑intensive infrastructure
• Have architected supply planning processes and driven their cadence with continuous improvement
• Have redesigned a delivery or deployment process at scale and can point to what it improved
• Know the full data center buildout lifecycle, from acquisition, design, and sourcing through construction, commissioning, and deployment
• Have built planning models/tools with the goal of automation, while leveraging AI‑assisted development
• Proactively surface opportunities and risk across functions and drive resolution
• Have a track record of driving outcomes through influence with cross‑functional partners

Strong candidates may also have

• Capacity planning, S&OP, or deployment planning experience at a hyperscaler or large industrial operator
• Supply chain, operations research, or optimization background (e.g. allocation, scheduling, design)
• Experience defining requirements for, and standing up, an internal planning system‑of‑record
• Published detailed forecasts that outside partners plan against

Annual Salary

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.

$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.

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.

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