Finance & Strategy, Datacenter Strategic Initiatives

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.

We are seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to own the operating P&L for Anthropic's datacenter infrastructure partnerships. This role will be the finance owner for every site covering lease, power and operations.

In this role, you will be a key partner to our infrastructure teams, providing financial expertise and guidance to keep our sites on budget, drive operating costs down, and de-risk our largest infrastructure exposures. You will own the near-term forecast for datacenter spend, run budget-vs-actual on projects, and serve as the primary finance counterpart to our datacenter operating partners.

Strategic Projects

• Lead financial analysis for site-level optimization initiatives and operating model decisions

• Handle operational finance asks tied to datacenter partners and live sites

• Partner with the Datacenter Expansion lead on deal-to-operations handoffs, ensuring budgets set at signing are operationalized at commissioning

• Experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, FP&A, private equity, consulting, or investment banking, preferably with datacenter, energy, real estate, telco, or managed-services infrastructure experience

• Owned an infrastructure operating P&L and driven cost-out programs against it

• Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and develop complex financial operating models

• Comfort being the finance person in the partner/vendor room and partnering with technical operating teams

• Bias towards action, strong work ethic, and experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines

• Strong relationship building, business judgment, process management, and communication skills

• Passion for Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems

• 7+ years of experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, FP&A, private equity, consulting, or investment banking

• Direct experience with datacenter, colocation, or power (PPA / energy procurement) economics and contract structures

• Experience managing finance cadence with a third-party operator or managed-services provider

• Background in AI, ML, or high-performance, large-scale computing infrastructure

• Proficiency with financial modeling tools and languages (SQL, Python, Excel)

• MBA or other advanced degree in finance, economics, or business

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

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