Description
As a Senior Data Center Preconstruction & Capacity Delivery Manager at Anthropic, you'll make sure EMEA deals are ready to execute before commitment, focusing on preconstruction and pre-lease management (75%) and delivery leadership (25%).
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
- Maintain delivery-readiness records and risk registers
- 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
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in preconstruction, development, or cost and commercial management on data center or large mission-critical programs within EMEA
- Track record of testing developer and contractor claims
- Experience taking time out of programs before construction started
- Ability to read native schedules fluently
- Experience shaping delivery terms in development, lease, or construction agreements
- Strong understanding of the end-to-end data center development process
- Understanding of data center design and construction across EMEA markets
- Experience building or scaling a team or function
- Ability to thrive operating with ambiguity and own outcomes