Data Center Transaction Lead | Flexible Hours | Generous Vacation

CoffeeChat OS; Friendly (MD); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Transaction Manager to drive the commercial sourcing and transaction execution for data center capacity deals. You will lead RFP processes, negotiate term sheets, and coordinate across legal, finance, engineering, and network teams to ensure alignment from sourcing through lease execution.

This role bridges complex negotiations with technical and legal requirements, serving as the single point of contact for developers and internal partners and developing timelines to

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in transaction management, commercial real estate, data center leasing, or infrastructure procurement
• Proven track record 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
• Experience with RFP processes and competitive sourcing for large-scale infrastructure or real estate
• Demonstrate exceptional communication skills, able to serve as an effective liaison between internal stakeholders and external partners
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail while maintaining focus on strategic deal objectives
• Can operate effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where processes are being built alongside execution
• Have a collaborative mindset and can build trust with diverse stakeholder groups 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

Data center deals

Negotiation

Program management

Cross-functional coordination

RFP processes

Stakeholder management

Communication

Legal coordination

Vendor relations

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Transaction Manager to drive the commercial sourcing and transaction execution for data center capacity deals. You will lead RFP processes, negotiate term sheets, and coordinate across legal, finance, engineering, and network teams to ensure alignment from sourcing through lease execution.

This role bridges complex negotiations with technical and legal requirements, serving as the single point of contact for developers and internal partners and developing timelines to