Finance & Strategy, Compute

Job Overview

We are seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to provide finance leadership for our accelerator investments at Anthropic, a company focused on creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

In this role, you will be a key partner to our compute teams, providing financial expertise and guidance to optimize our compute investments and drive strategic decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Finance lead for cloud accelerator compute spend, including budgeting, monthly forecasting, variance analysis, and financial plan maintenance
• Build and maintain detailed bottoms-up data-driven financial models for accelerator infrastructure, including long-range forecasts, cost driver analyses, and investment scenario modeling
• Develop deep expertise in compute contracts, pricing structures, and cost drivers, and surface optimization opportunities across our infrastructure
• Serve as subject matter expert for Anthropic’s overall compute capacity plan, owning source of truth and plan of record
• Support the implementation and management of financial planning tools, ensuring our models and processes scale with the organization
• Analyze the economics of model training and research compute, including ROI across different dimensions, and distill into actionable framework for capacity planning and deployment
• Partner closely with engineering and research teams to understand how training and reinforcement learning processes scale, and translate those technical dynamics into financial frameworks

Requirements

• Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and develop complex financial operating models
• Extraordinary problem-solving and critical thinking abilities to come up with new frameworks for assessing profitability and capital efficiency
• Attention to detail and patience for getting to the source of truth on complex and interconnected underlying financial and legal frameworks
• Comfort working cross-functionally and are adept at communicating complex financial information to non-finance audiences
• Proven track record of partnering with technical teams to drive financial optimization initiatives
• Excitement about working collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt well to change
• Possess a bias towards action, strong work ethic, and have experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines
• Strong relationship building, business judgment, process management, and communication skills
• Passionate about Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems
• Background in AI, ML, or high-performance, large-scale computing infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, private equity, growth equity, consulting, or investment banking
• 3+ years of experience specifically in cloud infrastructure financial management
• Experience working directly with major cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• MBA or other advanced degree in finance, economics, or business
• Deep expertise in cloud service provider economics, contract structures, and pricing models
• Experience with chip architecture economics and optimization strategies
• Proficiency with financial modeling tools and languages (SQL, Python, Excel)

Logistics

• Annual Salary: $190,000-$240,000 USD
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas.

Benefits

Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space.