Infrastructure Tax Lead

ABOUT THE ROLE Anthropic is a rapidly growing organization dedicated to creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our mission is to ensure that AI is safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Tax Lead to join our team and play a critical role in supporting our AI safety mission. WHAT YOU'LL DO As an Infrastructure Tax Lead, you will be responsible for owning tax end-to-end across our compute infrastructure portfolio. This will involve working closely with our Infrastructure team, as well as other departments such as Legal, Technical Accounting, FP&A, International Tax, Transfer Pricing, Provision, and Incentives. Your key responsibilities will include: * Serving as the embedded tax partner to the Infrastructure team on deal intake, gathering facts on site specs, counterparty structure, commercial terms, and timing, and providing structure review and term-sheet input early enough to shape the deal * Leading the Incentives workstream on state and local incentives, sales and use exemptions, property tax incentives, and site selection tax input, ensuring that incentive commitments and compliance obligations are reflected in the integrated tax position for each site * Partnering with Tax Transactions and Tax Planning teams on service vs lease characterization, entity structure, and own contract tax provisions, and treatment across a portfolio of non-standard structures * Leading after-tax deal economics, including bonus depreciation modeling on large-scale buildouts, NOL utilization, and scenario analysis, and partnering with Tax Planning, Tax Operations, and Infrastructure Accounting to ensure that tax assumptions are reflected accurately in deal approval packages * Coordinating with Technical Accounting on lease-versus-purchase treatment, consolidation questions, capitalization policy, and book-tax differences across a range of deal structures * Standing up and maintaining datacenter entity structures across jurisdictions, including entity formation, operationalization with local teams, contemporaneous documentation, withholding on cross-border financing, permanent establishment risk, and debt-versus-equity characterization * Partnering with transfer pricing on policy for the infrastructure footprint, including intercompany compute pricing, benchmarking, and documentation that will withstand scrutiny as intercompany flows scale * Partnering with the tax provision team on quarterly impact of new structures and deferred tax positions, ensuring that there are no surprises between deal close and quarter close * Building and maintaining infrastructure tax playbooks, issue-spotting checklists, and internal processes to ensure that the function scales with deal volume rather than linearly with headcount WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need: * 12+ years of tax experience with significant exposure to datacenter, tax planning, including meaningful international range * JD or CPA required; LL.M. in Taxation or MST a plus * Experience standing up and maintaining entity structures across multiple jurisdictions, including contemporaneous documentation and operationalizing with local finance, legal, and accounting teams * Working fluency in cross-border withholding on intercompany and third-party financing, permanent establishment analysis, and debt-versus-equity characterization * A track record of owning the integrated tax position across a portfolio of deals, not advising on one issue at a time, but carrying the thread across functions from term sheet to post-close