Transaction Manager

About Anthropic

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The 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 Transaction Manager at Anthropic, you'll drive the commercial sourcing and transaction execution process for data center capacity deals. You'll lead RFP processes, negotiate term sheets, and serve as the central leader ensuring seamless stakeholder alignment from initial sourcing through lease execution. This role is critical to securing the infrastructure that powers Anthropic's frontier AI systems, requiring you to bridge commercial negotiations with complex internal coordination across legal, finance, engineering, and network teams.

Responsibilities

• Help identify data center capacity opportunities and options through management of network relationships across data center developer, broker, and power contacts
• Lead the RFP and commercial sourcing process for specific data center deals, managing developer outreach, proposal evaluation, and competitive selection processes
• Negotiate term sheets and manage the LOI process, structuring commercial terms that meet Anthropic's technical and business requirements while maintaining strong developer partnerships
• Create the bridge from LOI to executed transaction, ensuring all commercial, technical, and legal requirements are satisfied for deal closure
• Serve as project manager for cross-functional stakeholder engagement, coordinating due diligence teams, internal and external legal counsel, network organization, platform engineers, and finance organization to ensure alignment prior to lease execution
• Act as the single point of contact (SPOC) for auxiliary organizations including networks, deployments, and government relations, providing regular updates on transaction progress and leasing process status
• Develop and maintain transaction timelines, tracking critical path items and proactively identifying risks that could impact deal closure
• Document and refine transaction processes and playbooks to enable scalable deal execution as Anthropic expands its infrastructure footprint
• Ensure all stakeholder requirements are captured and addressed in commercial agreements, translating technical and operational needs into contractual terms