Strategic Deals Lead, Cloud Compute Anthropic · San Francisco

About Anthropic 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. About the role As a Strategic Deals Lead, you will help shape Anthropic's long-term approach to AI infrastructure, compute capacity, and strategic ecosystem partnerships, and you will originate, structure, negotiate, and close the deals that put that strategy into effect. Within Cloud Compute, you will build and manage Anthropic's relationships across the emerging compute ecosystem to identify and execute opportunities that expand access to the infrastructure required to train and serve frontier AI systems. The compute market is fast-moving and structurally complex. Providers vary widely in scale, financial structure, and commercial model, and increasingly involve a variety of strategic partners. In this role, you will build and develop expertise across the relevant ecosystem players, commercial constructs and market standards, and the interplay between infrastructure and financing for scaling compute. You will work closely with Anthropic's technical infrastructure, finance, and legal teams to source and evaluate opportunities, develop…