Data Center Portfolio Lead
About the role
Anthropic is rapidly scaling our compute infrastructure across a portfolio of data center builds with multiple developer partnerships. The Data Center Portfolio & Planning team owns the integrated view of that supply: compute allocation, decision locks, forecasting, and the frameworks that underpin all of it.
We’re looking for a Data Center Portfolio Lead to manage the portfolio itself — the sites, the partners behind them, and the decisions each site has to clear on its way to operational readiness. You will be the source of truth on where every site stands, and the person who defines how each one moves from negotiation to deployment. You will build the stage gates, cadence, and tooling that establishes a true program rather than case-by-case execution. This is a highly cross-functional role, working closely with our site selection, energy, supply chain, engineering, and delivery teams, as well as external partners.
Responsibilities
Manage the portfolio overall: each site’s status, milestones, decisions taken, open items, and risks
Lead the portfolio reviews that ground our teams on the current state of supply, decisions needed, and downstream impacts
Architect and run the stage-gate framework — the criteria, approvals, and owners at each gate — that standardizes how a site moves from negotiation through lease execution, design and chip lock, construction, and handoff to operations
Work with the planning and design teams to decide each site’s chip allocation ahead of deadlines
Act as the primary point of contact between strategic partners and internal stakeholders, drive execution to critical milestones, and keep partners consistent across site selection, design, supply chain, and delivery
Develop AI-driven tooling and data pipelines that automate project updates across the portfolio
You may be a good fit if you
Have managed data center or comparable capital-intensive infrastructure at scale
Have owned an external development or partner relationship, and know how to hold both sides to their commitments
Have built or run a stage-gate or milestone framework, and gotten teams to fully adopt it
Are fluent in the constraints — such as power, cooling, design, and delivery dates — that determine where hardware can go and when that choice has to lock
Have automated your own reporting with tooling or data pipelines
Strong candidates may also have
Technical program management experience on capital projects, running delivery across multiple concurrent builds
Management consulting or internal strategy background, bringing structure to ambiguous problems and building the cadence that keeps them moving
Experience with accelerator or server fleet planning and the data center designs they require
Experience on the commercial side of these agreements, whether negotiating a lease, a framework agreement, or managing one after signature
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:
$320,000—$405,000 USD