Head of Data Center Leasing, Location and Energy

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
As Head of Leasing and Energy, you will play a fundamental role in helping secure data center capacity to support Anthropic's unprecedented growth. Your role will cover leasing, site selection, partnership development, and both traditional and non-traditional approaches to energy. Additionally, you will be a foundational part of a team that implements the processes and standards to scale this quickly, working with cross functional leadership from Anthropic's Compute, Strategy, and Networking organizations.

Responsibilities

• Near-term capacity securitization with a priority to transaction management across in-flight deals delivering in the next 18 months.
• Establishment of a formal leasing program, including creation of the broker and developer networks that will help support Anthropics mid term growth.
• Creation of a forward operating process to effectively manage and plan capacity supply and demand matching with Anthropic's compute organization.
• Maintain deep knowledge of developer plans and market trends to inform a constantly updated log of leasing opportunities and associated timelines
• Manage external brokerage partners and regularly engage in industry events and in 1:1 meetings with developers to review evolving pipeline options
• Oversee technical due diligence (executed by third party) related to emerging challenges from AI workloads and frequency and voltage regulation
• Develop and maintain standards required for both site (geotech, entitlement, environmental, utilities) and project delivery (team, market labor studies, schedule, supply chain) due diligence exercises
• Cross functional corporate development efforts with other key leaders in the business to align on the strategy and partners needed to solve Anthropic's key infrastructure challenges.
• Create and administer, through 3rd party execution, standards for site and project level due diligence

You May Be a Good Fit If You

• 10+ years of experience in data center real estate, leasing, site selection, or related infrastructure development roles
• Proven track record managing large-scale leasing transactions and negotiations with developers, landlords, and utilities
• Deep knowledge of data center markets, developer pipelines, and emerging capacity trends
• Experience building and managing broker and developer networks across multiple markets
• Strong understanding of data center power requirements, energy procurement strategies, and utility coordination
• Experience overseeing technical and site-level due diligence processes, including management of third-party consultants
• Demonstrated ability to build processes and standards in fast-scaling organizations
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills with technical, finance, and strategy teams
• Self-directed and comfortable operating in ambiguous, rapidly evolving environments
• Outstanding communication and relationship management skills with both internal stakeholders and external partners

Strong candidates may also have some of the following :

• Experience with hyperscale or AI/ML infrastructure capacity planning and procurement
• Knowledge of non-traditional energy solutions including behind-the-meter power, renewable energy development, or power purchase agreements
• Background in corporate real estate strategy or corporate development
• Experience with co-location provider relationships and wholesale data center transactions
• Familiarity with data center technical specifications related to high-density AI workloads (voltage regulation, frequency stability, cooling requirements)
• Understanding of geotechnical, environmental, and entitlement considerations for greenfield site development
• Experience working in venture-backed or high-growth technology companies
• Network of relationships with key data center developers, power providers, and infrastructure partners
• Background in project finance or infrastructure investment

The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.

Annual Salary
$405,000—$485,000 USD

Logistics
Education requirements:
We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location-based hybrid policy:
Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:
We do sponsor visas However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.
Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

How We're Different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
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