Operations Sourcing Manager, Data Center

Details

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our team is a quickly growing group of researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

Role overview

You’ll run the broad sourcing operations that keep Anthropic’s global data center footprint moving, working across the full range of categories that make up our infrastructure: compute, networking, racks, mechanical, cabling, and the supplier ecosystem that delivers them. You’ll be the operations owner who makes sure the right hardware lands at the right site at the right time, on terms that hold up across programs.

You’ll work day-to-day with Anthropic engineering, our data center operator partners, OEMs, ODMs, integrators, and service providers. You’ll be the connective tissue across categories, negotiating commercial terms, managing supplier performance, and optimizing for lead time, cost, and on-time delivery against an aggressive deployment roadmap.

In any given week you might be supporting NPI BOMs, expediting constrained components, chasing down a lead-time slip across suppliers, running a competitive process for a new platform, developing supplier scorecards, negotiating supply agreements, or partnering with engineering to keep an in-flight program on track. You’ll partner closely with Claude throughout, including supplier benchmarking, contract analysis, scenario modeling, and drafting clean negotiation records.

Responsibilities

• Run end-to-end sourcing operations across data center hardware categories (compute, networking, racks, mechanical, cabling), from supplier engagement and competitive process through contracts and ongoing supplier performance management.
• Own the operational rhythm with suppliers: supplier scorecards, capturing capacity and quarterly business reviews.
• Negotiate commercial terms across categories and keep them aligned with our deployment plans, with a bias toward execution and on-time delivery.
• Triage supplier issues across programs, drive trade-off decisions with engineering, finance, and deploy operations, and keep stakeholders aligned through ambiguity.
• Build Claude-powered workflows that the sourcing team and partners adopt for benchmarking, request for quotes, contract analysis, and reporting.
• Produce deal memos, supplier business reviews, and operational readouts that engineering and ops leadership rely on to keep programs on track.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in sourcing, procurement, or supply chain operations, with a track record across multiple hardware categories rather than depth in just one.
• Operational rigor: owning supplier performance, lead-time discipline, and fulfillment escalations as a regular part of the job.
• Ability to move between compute supply negotiations, networking RFx, and mechanical components contracts without losing rigor.
• Comfortable operating effectively under ambiguity and bringing structure to undefined problems.
• Strong cross-functional influence and stakeholder alignment skills, including producing clear written artifacts for senior stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications

• 10+ years in sourcing, procurement, supply chain operations, or hardware program management.
• 5+ years of experience sourcing data center hardware at scale.
• Hands-on experience with operational sourcing instruments (PO management, scorecards, S&OP, lead-time modeling, expedites).
• Familiarity with data center hardware infrastructure (compute, networking, racks, cabling, CDUs, and other mechanical components).
• Experience working with OEMs, ODMs, integrators, and service providers across multiple hardware categories.
• Experience supporting large-scale hardware deployments where on-time delivery and supplier performance drove program outcomes.

Compensation

Annual Salary: $270,000 - $290,000 USD

Logistics

• Location: Remote-friendly within the United States.
• Location-based hybrid policy: the company expects staff to be in one of their offices at least ~25% of the time (role may require more time in offices).
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic states they do sponsor visas and retain immigration counsel to support offers when feasible.

About Anthropic / Additional notes

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. They offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and an office space for collaboration. The team emphasizes collaboration, clear communication, and building high-impact AI research as a large-scale scientific effort.