Data Center Transactions Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Optional equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

A lovely office space in which to coll

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Transaction Manager to drive sourcing and execution of data center capacity deals. You will lead RFPs, negotiate term sheets, and coordinate across legal, finance, engineering, and network teams to close complex infrastructure agreements.

This role blends commercial acumen with technical understanding in a fast-growing AI-focused company, offering hybrid work, visa sponsorship, and a collaborative environment.

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.
• Excellent project management and ability to coordinate across legal, technical, finance, and operations teams.
• Experience with RFP processes and competitive sourcing for large-scale infra deals.

Responsibilities

• Identify data center capacity opportunities via managing network relationships with developers, brokers, 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

Negotiation

Project management

Cross-functional coordination

Communication skills

RFP processes

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Transaction Manager to drive sourcing and execution of data center capacity deals. You will lead RFPs, negotiate term sheets, and coordinate across legal, finance, engineering, and network teams to close complex infrastructure agreements.

This role blends commercial acumen with technical understanding in a fast-growing AI-focused company, offering hybrid work, visa sponsorship, and a collaborative environment.