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.
We're seeking a Procurement Business Partner to support Anthropic's compute infrastructure operations. This role will execute procurement operations for our growing AI compute capacity, working with our Infrastructure and Engineering teams to ensure efficient procurement workflows while maintaining financial discipline. You'll manage day-to-day procurement activities and contribute to process improvements as we scale our compute capabilities.
Review and validate Purchase Requests in Zip for appropriate documentation, contract alignment, and accurate accounting treatment
Manage Purchase Orders including reviews, updates, and closure when fully billed or no longer expected, maintaining organized tracking systems
Provide invoice coding guidance for POs, invoices, and standard transactions
Conduct vendor analysis to identify cost savings opportunities and provide data to support business negotiations
Contribute to process improvement initiatives to standardize workflows and support automation efforts
Support month-end close activities including expense reviews, accruals, and reclass journal entries
Train and onboard business owners and vendors on procurement processes and best practices
Maintain vendor and stakeholder relationships and support performance efforts
4+ years of experience in procurement or sourcing, with exposure to infrastructure operations
Familiarity with compute infrastructure components (servers, GPUs, networking, cloud services)
Solid understanding of procure-to-pay processes and purchase order management
Experience with procurement systems (Zip, Coupa, SAP Ariba, or similar)
Experience with vendor analysis and cost savings identification
Track record of contributing to process improvement initiatives
Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets
Cross-functional collaboration experience working with diverse business stakeholders
Business partnership mindset with ability to communicate complex processes to non-finance users
Comfort working in fast-paced, high-growth environments with some ambiguity
Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or related field
Experience in technology company procurement or IT sourcing
Familiarity with cloud procurement models (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
Understanding of datacenter operations including power and infrastructure basics
Experience supporting month-end close and financial reporting
Background in vendor management and relationship development
Awareness of financial controls and compliance requirements
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.
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.
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.
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. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process