Data Center Portfolio Planning & Execution Lead

Anthropic • San Francisco, NY

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is rapidly scaling our compute infrastructure across a portfolio of datacenter builds with multiple developer, neocloud, and cloud partnerships. We're looking for a DC Portfolio Planning & Execution Lead to drive the planning and framework that ensures every site moves smoothly from the front-end phases through design, construction, equipment delivery, commissioning, and operational readiness. This role owns the portfolio-level operating system: translating capacity supply pipeline into integrated project plans that span every phase of delivery, building the tooling and automation that runs it at scale, and maintaining Anthropic's datacenter capacity catalog — a lifecycle view of our fleet that supports both execution orchestration and steady-state capacity planning. You will build this function from the ground up.

Requirements

• Are familiar with the full datacenter buildout lifecycle: pipeline → design → sourcing → construction → Cx → deployment
• Have run integrated portfolio or master-schedule planning across a fleet of capital projects (datacenter, energy, fab, or similar) where multiple functional orgs each own a phase
• Have built a stage-gate or decision-lock system from scratch and gotten functional leads to adopt it
• Have re-architected a deployment or delivery process at scale and can point to the cycle-time or throughput result
• Build the tooling yourself using AI-assisted development — stand up planning dashboards, schedule automation, and data pipelines from Smartsheet/P6/partner systems
• Proactively surface schedule risk across functions — comfortable flagging a problem in someone else's domain before it becomes a slip
• Track record of driving outcomes through influence with cross-functional partners

Nice To Haves

• Experience building a portfolio planning and execution function from scratch at a hyperscaler or large industrial owner
• Exposure to capacity planning or S&OP processes that connect demand forecast to physical build
• Experience product-managing internal planning, workflow, or scheduling systems

Responsibilities

• Portfolio schedule & catalog Manage the integrated master plan for each site across the portfolio — stitching power ramp, design, construction, sourcing, deployment, and operations readiness into a single coordinated schedule with clear milestones and dependencies
• Develop and maintain Anthropic's datacenter catalog for deployed and in-progress capacity.
• Manage the portfolio-level view of physical infrastructure & cluster interfaces across all sites and partners to enable planning decisions such as equipment fungibility, accelerator platforms, tech insertion, or workload allocation Stage gates & execution tracking
• Define and run the stage gates and decision locks for cluster delivery — from lease execution to design lock through procurement, construction, equipment installation, commissioning, and handover
• Drive gate reviews, manage exceptions, and track the downstream impact of deviations across the portfolio
• Manage portfolio reviews and risk tracking for DC Infra leadership and Compute Supply Tooling & process
• Develop tooling and automation to enable cross-functional planning flow-down from datacenter capacity availability dates
• Partner with Design, Supply Chain, Construction, and DC Ops program leads to drive cross-pillar process improvements as portfolio scales

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level