Procurement Operations Business Partner, Technology

Anthropic; San Francisco, Seattle (CA, WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Procurement Operations Business Partner in San Francisco to own the software purchasing lifecycle—from request to PO to accruals. You will manage high-volume software and cloud spend, align with Security, Legal, and Accounting, and help define a scalable AI-native procurement function.

You will ensure correct vendor data, contract terms, and ongoing renewals, while driving efficiency in approvals, data privacy checks, and expense recognition for month-end close.

Qualifications

• High-volume procurement experience in a tech/finance environment.
• Ability to ensure correct coding, dates, and accruals for software purchases.
• Strong collaboration with Security, Legal, and Accounting teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the purchasing process across software, SaaS, and cloud spends.
• Review requests for vendor records, contracting entities, and spend categorization.
• Coordinate with Security for vendor security reviews and with Legal for contract review.
• Ensure PO structure matches vendor billing and GL requirements.
• Track license counts and renewal dates to prevent lapses and optimize spend.

Skills

Procurement

Vendor management

Financial controls

Purchase orders

Contract review

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 your portfolio, gathering estimates from vendors and budget owners for variable spend and confirming or correcting proposed amounts so Accounting can close on time.

• Partner with Accounts Payable to