Description
As a Senior Data Center Preconstruction & Capacity Delivery Manager at Anthropic, you'll ensure EMEA deals are ready to execute before commitment.
About 75% of your time goes to preconstruction and pre-lease management, from first desktop review through Letter of Intent (LOI) to lease execution.
Responsibilities - preconstruction and pre-lease management:
- Lead developers, contractors, utilities, and transaction teams to shape deal outcomes
- Confirm deal readiness and validate transaction viability
- Provide early delivery views on capacity, power, permitting, connectivity, schedule, and cost
- Conduct independent delivery due diligence on each opportunity
- Accelerate programs during the pre-lease phase
- Assess contractor and supply-chain capacity and long-lead equipment needs
- Challenge Total Development Cost and delivery schedules
- Shape delivery terms in LOI, lease, and supporting exhibits
- Give deal and delivery leadership clear go/no-go recommendations
- Keep a delivery-readiness record and risk register
- Direct owner's representatives and third-party advisers
- Develop and refine the preconstruction playbook
- Prepare and present regular executive reporting
Responsibilities - delivery leadership:
- Document the baseline at signature for design, budget, schedule, and risks
- Partner with landlords and developers post-deal
- Coordinate across internal stakeholders and track construction progress
- Represent Anthropic in key technical and operational decisions
- Drive seamless handoffs to operational state
- Identify and mitigate risks throughout the delivery lifecycle
You may be a good fit if you:
- Have 8+ years of experience in preconstruction, development, or cost and commercial management on data center or other large mission-critical programs within EMEA
- Have a track record of testing developer and contractor claims on cost, schedule, power, and permitting
- Have taken time out of programs before construction started
- Have shaped delivery terms in development, lease, or construction agreements
- Have a strong understanding of the end-to-end data center development process
- Understand the nuances of data center design and construction across EMEA markets
- Have built or scaled a team or function
- Thrive operating with ambiguity and have a willingness to own outcomes