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Strategic Deals Lead, Compute & Infrastructure

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · On-site

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About Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Backed by Accel, Bessemer and General Catalyst.

About the role

Our Strategic Deals team originates, structures, negotiates, and closes the deals that secure the compute Anthropic uses to train and serve frontier AI systems. We work closely with engineering, infrastructure, finance, legal, product, and go-to-market teams to expand Anthropic's access to cloud capacity, silicon, networking, and the financing behind them. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Financial modeling skills to build and pressure-test the economics of large infrastructure transactions
  • Experience developing term sheets and negotiating definitive agreements alongside legal counsel
  • Ability to work with technical teams and translate engineering requirements into deal structures, contract terms, and strategic business recommendations
  • Experience negotiating agreements that combine infrastructure or capacity terms with commercial, product, or go-to-market terms, and an understanding of how those components interact
  • Experience building partnerships and influencing senior stakeholders across internal and external organizations, including executive leadership
More about this role

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.

Our Strategic Deals team originates, structures, negotiates, and closes the deals that secure the compute Anthropic uses to train and serve frontier AI systems. We work closely with engineering, infrastructure, finance, legal, product, and go-to-market teams to expand Anthropic's access to cloud capacity, silicon, networking, and the financing behind them.

We are hiring several Strategic Deals Leads focused on compute and infrastructure. In this role, you will source opportunities, design partnerships, and negotiate high-value agreements with some of the world's largest technology companies, and you will connect deal terms to structured finance solutions. Your work will directly shape how quickly and reliably Anthropic can bring new compute online.

Each hire will bring deep expertise in one or more of these areas while working across the broader infrastructure...

Read the full posting on Anthropic's site ↗

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