Data Center Portfolio Planning & Execution Lead

Anthropic•San Francisco, CA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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

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
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
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