Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The Head of Compute Supply Chain will own the sourcing strategy for semiconductors, hardware, data center equipment, and energy equipment, ensuring supply meets growing demand. This role requires building and leading a high‑performing team, securing capacity and long‑term agreements, managing executive supplier relationships, and mitigating supply risks across geography, tariffs, and export controls.
Head of Compute Supply Chain at Anthropic
Remote - San Francisco, CA
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Requirements
Skills
- 15+ years in strategic sourcing or supply chain for semiconductors, hardware, or datacenter infrastructure
- Led a sourcing function rather than a single category
- Built a sourcing organization through rapid growth, including managers who lead teams
- Negotiated capacity or long‑term supply agreements at multibillion‑dollar scale with executive counterparts
- Deep experience in either semiconductor supply (foundry, memory or hardware) or data center and power infrastructure equipment
- Ability to make hard allocation calls and explain trade‑offs to executives
- Strong written communication and executive presence
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
- Sourced for other kinds of hardware such as robotics or manufacturing equipment
- Sourced across the US, Europe and Asia, including for an international data center portfolio
Responsibilities
- Own sourcing strategy across semiconductors and hardware, data center equipment, and energy equipment
- Build the organization: develop the category leads and set how the teams operate as they grow
- Secure supply ahead of demand through capacity reservations, wafer commitments and long‑term agreements, working with the rest of the Compute team as well as domain experts in Finance and Legal
- Hold executive relationships with hardware suppliers and power and infrastructure OEMs
- Own supply risk, including single‑source exposure, geography, tariffs and export controls
- Identify supply gaps before they impact the business
Technologies
semiconductorsIT hardwaredata center equipmentenergy equipmentfoundry capacitymemoryprocessorsnetworkingtransformerschillersturbines
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