Procurement Operations Business Partner, Technology

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Procurement Operations Business Partner to own the end-to-end purchasing path for software and cloud services. You will ensure correct coding, dates, accruals, and PO processing, partnering with Security, Legal, and Accounting to keep spend accurate and compliant.

In a high-volume, finance-centric role, you will guide internal teams from request to signed agreement, manage renewals, and track licenses. You’ll help shape the AI-native procurement function as we scale.

Responsibilities

• Own the purchasing process for high volume requests across the organization, ensuring speed and accuracy.
• Serve as the primary procurement partner for teams, guiding requests from initial stage to signed agreement and issued purchase order.
• Review each purchase for correct vendor, contracting entity, complete documents, spend categorization and service dates, and necessary approvals.
• Determine additional requirements such as order forms, data privacy reviews, or third-party risk assessments, routing to reviewers on the first pass.
• Partner with Security to conduct vendor security reviews on new tools and renewals, ensuring compliance before go-live.
• Coordinate contract review with Legal, maintain movement, and verify executed agreements support the purchase order.
• Structure purchase orders to match vendor billing and accounting needs with correct GL account, cost center, and service period; manage renewals and seat changes.
• Track license counts and renewal dates, flag overlapping tools, and inform budget owners ahead of renewals.

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

Procurement Operations is the front door for buying at Anthropic. We sit inside Finance Operations and own the path from “I need to buy something” to a signed agreement, an accurate purchase order, and clean spend data at month end.

We are hiring a Procurement Operations Business Partner to own that path for our technology spend: business applications, SaaS tools, cloud and infrastructure services, and the engineering and developer tools our teams build with. This portfolio is software heavy: new tools evaluated and onboarded regularly, licenses that renew on their own schedule, and vendors billed on seats, usage, or tiered subscription terms rather than a single invoice. You will be the person who makes buying software feel simple to the teams who depend on it and reliable to the Finance stakeholders behind it. This is a high-volume role with an accounting core. You ensure every software purchase in your portfolio is coded, dated, received, and accrued correctly, so spend is right in the books every month. Expect a steady queue of new tool requests, renewals, and license changes, and expect to be the person Accounting trusts on all of it.

We use Claude as part of our daily workflow and are looking for someone who wants to help define what an AI-native procurement operations function looks like, including how AI changes intake, contract and security review, vendor coordination, and requester support.

Responsibilities

Own the purchasing process

• Manage a high volume of purchase requests, renewals, and license changes each month across the organization, keeping speed and accuracy high at the same time.

• Serve as the primary procurement partner for the teams buying in your categories, guiding requesters from initial request to signed agreement and issued purchase order.

• Review every purchase request in your portfolio for the things that matter downstream: the right vendor record and contracting entity, complete commercial documents, correct spend categorization and service dates, and the approvals the purchase actually needs.

• Determine what else each request requires before it can move, whether that is an order form, a data privacy review, or a third party risk assessment, and route it to the right reviewers the first time.

• Partner with Security to run a vendor security review on every new tool and at every renewal, and hold the line that nothing goes live without one.

• Launch and track contract review with Legal, keep it moving, and confirm the executed agreement supports the purchase order before it is issued.

• Structure purchase orders so they match how the vendor bills (seat-based, usage-based, tiered subscription, or flat annual fee) and how Accounting needs to see the spend, with the right GL account, cost center, and service period on every line. Manage renewals, true ups, and seat count changes over the life of each agreement.

• Track license counts and renewal dates across your portfolio so nothing auto-renews or lapses by surprise, and flag underused or overlapping tools to budget owners ahead of the next renewal cycle.

Financial completeness and accuracy

• Code every purchase order correctly at creation, including GL account, spend category, cost center, and service period, and understand how each choice lands in the financials (expense versus prepaid, annual versus monthly recognition).

• Work the hard cases with Accounting: multi year subscriptions paid upfront, mid term seat additions, true ups, credits, and contracts amended mid cycle.

• Own the open purchase order book: receipts recorded against actual delivery, periodic reviews, stale line cleanup, coding corrections, and timely closures, so PO, receipt, and invoice agree.

• Serve as the first line reviewer for month-end accruals on