Compute Country Lead, Canada

Overview

Lead Anthropic’s compute strategy build-out in Canada, coordinating a cross-functional team to bring compute online at scale.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end strategy and coordination for compute build-out in Canada from site selection through construction and operations.
• Serve as primary point of accountability across workstreams including leasing, financing, energy, government relations/policy, community engagement, construction, and operations.
• Provide in-country cross-functional leadership to drive alignment and unblock issues.
• Represent Anthropic externally with government officials, utilities, energy providers, and other stakeholders in Canada.
• Build and maintain relationships in the Canadian government and energy industry to support site, power, and policy outcomes.
• Track progress and surface risks across parallel workstreams as capacity scales.
• Translate Anthropic’s global compute priorities into Canada-specific regulatory, political, and market conditions.

What you'll need

• Canadian national with established links into government and the energy industry strongly preferred.
• Structured thinker who can quickly learn new domains and go deep fast.
• Excellent communication skills for representing Anthropic to senior government, utility, and industry stakeholders.
• Ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams without direct line authority.
• Hyper-organized and detail-oriented, able to own multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Background in energy, infrastructure, or a related sector.
• Comfort with ambiguity and driving structure into undefined situations.

Nice to have

• Prior experience with large-scale infrastructure or datacenter development.
• Existing relationships with Canadian federal or provincial government bodies relevant to energy, land use, or industrial development.
• Experience managing or overseeing capital-intensive projects.
• Familiarity with the compute, cloud, or datacenter industry.

Details

• Location-based hybrid policy: expect staff in offices at least 25% of the time.
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic sponsors visas and will make reasonable efforts if an offer is made.
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.