Operations Sourcing Manager, Data Center

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. As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of AI. WHAT YOU'LL DO You will be responsible for running the broad sourcing operations that keep our global data center footprint moving. This will involve working across various categories, including compute, networking, racks, mechanical, cabling, and the supplier ecosystem that delivers them. You will be the operations owner who ensures the right hardware lands at the right site at the right time, with terms that hold up across programs. Your day-to-day work will involve collaborating with Anthropic engineering, data center operator partners, OEMs, ODMs, integrators, and service providers. You will 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. Responsibilities include: - Running end-to-end sourcing operations across data center hardware categories from supplier engagement and competitive process through contracts and ongoing supplier performance management. - Owning the operational rhythm with suppliers, including supplier scorecards, capturing capacity, and quarterly business reviews. - Negotiating commercial terms across categories and keeping them aligned with our deployment plans, with a bias toward execution and on-time delivery. - Triage supplier issues across programs, driving trade-off decisions with engineering, finance, and deploy operations, and keeping stakeholders aligned through ambiguity. - Building Claude-powered workflows that the sourcing team and partners adopt for benchmarking, request for quotes, contract analysis, and reporting. - Producing deal memos, supplier business reviews, and operational readouts that engineering and ops leadership rely on to keep programs on track. WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need: - 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, including owning supplier performance, lead-time discipline, and fulfillment escalations as a regular part of the job. - Ability to move seamlessly between different hardware categories, such as compute, networking, and mechanical components. - Experience operating effectively under ambiguity and bringing structure to undefined problems. - Influence and communication skills to align cross-functional partners around shared standards, even without direct authority. - Strong written communication skills to produce artifacts senior stakeholders can act on without follow-up. - A bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience. WHY REMOTE As a remote worker, you will have the flexibility to work from anywhere while still being an integral part of our team. We value collaboration and communication, and our remote work setup is designed to facilitate these aspects. BENEFITS The annual compensation range