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:
We are seeking a Head of Strategic Finance for Compute at Anthropic. Compute is a critical ingredient in the development of transformative AI systems. As models continue to exponentially grow in capability and intelligence, the need for compute to support inference and research will increase as well. In this role, you will provide end-to-end finance support for our research and engineering teams, providing financial expertise and guidance to support strategic decision-making. As Anthropic continues to grow, you will play a crucial role in leading the team responsible for analyzing compute-related data, building financial models, and delivering insights to drive informed business decisions across compute allocation, significant capital outlays, and our technical efficiency.
This role will work closely with our Executive team and collaborate with other cross-functional members of the Finance organization to align our goals for compute with our broader financial objectives. The ability to efficiently allocate and utilize compute resources can significantly impact the pace of innovation, the quality of AI models produced, and ultimately, Anthropic's competitive position. If you are passionate about leveraging your financial acumen to support innovation and drive business success, join us on the frontier of making AI safe and impactful for humanity.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, manage, and grow the Strategic Finance function for Compute
- Support pivotal investment decisions, managing ongoing infrastructure expenditures and new commitments to maximize returns on Anthropic’s infrastructure capital allocation
- Provide guidance and strategic recommendations to influence our technical leaders on financial strategies, investments, and resource allocation decisions, leveraging an in-depth understanding of the the technical aspects of compute and the company's financials (include pricing and packaging, new product development, cloud partnerships, and capacity planning)
- Cultivate strategic partnerships with cloud and hardware providers, supporting model development and deployment at the frontier of AI capabilities
- Prepare and deliver clear, concise, and insightful financial analyses and forecasts, highlighting key trends, risks, and opportunities relating to the company’s compute strategy to stakeholders, executives, and the Board
- Collaborate with the other leaders across Strategic Finance, Investor Relations and Accounting to help align our compute roadmap with our broader financial goals
- Lead the team to create effective dashboards, KPIs, and scorecards to track our operational and financial metrics relating to our infrastructure
- Maintain a pulse on market dynamics and competitive trends to continually refine and elevate our infrastructure strategy
You may be a good fit if you have:
- 12+ years of experience across strategic finance, product finance, compute finance, private equity, growth equity, venture capital, consulting, and investment banking
- A minimum of 5+ years in leadership and management roles
- Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and develop / maintain complex financial operating models
- Extraordinary problem-solving and critical thinking abilities to navigate complex financial challenges
- Comfort working cross-functionally, communicating complex financial information to non-finance audiences
- Excitement about working in a fast paced, dynamic environment and adapt well to change
- A bias toward action, strong work ethic, and have experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines
- Strong relationship building, business judgment, process management, and communication skills
- Passion about Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems
Strong candidates may also:
- Have deep experience with consumption-based and/or complex business models
- Have in-depth knowledge of and interest in cloud computing infrastructure
- Hold an MBA, a professional accounting certification, or other relevant advanced degree (e.g., J.D., CFA, data science, statistics)
- Possess strong SQL and data visualization (e.g., Looker, Tableau) skills
- Have a background in AI, ML, or related technologies
The expected salary range for this position is:
Annual Salary:
$300,000—$355,000 USD
Logistics
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Compensation and Benefits*
Anthropic’s compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits. We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates.
Equity - For eligible roles, equity will be a major component of the total compensation. We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.
US Benefits - The following benefits are for our US-based employees:
- Optional equity donation matching.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching.
- 22 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
- Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness.
- Fertility benefits via Carrot.
- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.
UK Benefits - The following benefits are for our UK-based employees:
- Optional equity donation matching.
- Private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
- Pension contribution (matching 4% of your salary).
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
- Health cash plan.
- Life insurance and income protection.
- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
* This compensation and benefits information is based on Anthropic’s good faith estimate for this position as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. Employees based outside of the UK or US will receive a different benefits package. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors, including where you place on our internal performance ladders, which is based on factors including past work experience, relevant education, and performance on our interviews or in a work trial.
How we're different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
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