Data Center Supply Planning 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 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 versatile Data Center Supply Planning Lead to help build the plan for data center delivery. This role has a broad view of the portfolio: you will drive the supply model that ties our compute supply and capacity targets to the site pipeline, use it to prioritize which opportunities we pursue and how we configure them, and turn the reasoning into principles as the portfolio grows. You will also have a deep understanding of our active sites, and will build supply forecasts that our partners mobilize against and internal teams rely on. This is a highly cross-functional role that will work closely with our site selection, engineering, delivery, and demand planning teams on the framework and processes that move sites to operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Build the integrated data center supply forecast and planning assumptions behind it: committed plus pipeline supply - by site, design, and accelerator type - against growth targets
• Own the portfolio view of chip-to-site allocation and decision cadence: surface the trade-offs, drive the lock points, and communicate changes to the broader org
• Support and evolve data center portfolio reviews that ground our teams on the current state of supply, decisions needed, and downstream impacts
• Partner with technical program management, delivery, and demand planning teams so that hall readiness, install plans, and chip supply stay in sync as any of the three moves
• Build and run scenarios: assess what happens to the plan if a delivery date, chip tranche, or a target changes; and develop solvers that recommend how to close gaps
• Plan for the long-lead resources we should hold in inventory to create optionality and how they should be allocated strategically
• Shape the process by which a new site enters delivery tracking, and the change-management process by which a date change flows to downstream teams

• Support the buildout of a delivery planning system-of-record; partner with our internal tooling team on the build

You may be a good fit if you

• Have led supply/capacity planning or portfolio management for data centers, power, or similar capital-intensive infrastructure
• Have architected supply planning processes and driven their cadence with continuous improvement
• Have redesigned a delivery or deployment process at scale and can point to what it improved
• Know the full data center buildout lifecycle, from acquisition, design, and sourcing through construction, commissioning, and deployment
• Have built planning models/tools with the goal of automation, while leveraging AI-assisted development
• Proactively surface opportunities and risk across functions and drive resolution
• Have a track record of driving outcomes through influence with cross-functional partners

Strong candidates may also have

• Capacity planning, S&OP, or deployment planning experience at a hyperscaler or large industrial operator
• Supply chain, operations research, or optimization background (e.g. allocation, scheduling, design)
• Experience defining requirements for, and standing up, an internal planning system-of-record
• Published detailed forecasts that outside partners plan against