Operations Sourcing Manager, Data Center

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 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 BOM’s, 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