About the role
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.
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
You may be a good fit if you
- 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
Strong candidates may also have
- 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