Compute Country Lead, Canada

The role

The Compute Country Lead will own the end-to-end strategy and coordination for Anthropic's compute build-out in Canada. This person will lead a cross-functional team of experts to drive site selection, leasing, energy, financing, government relations, and operations.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end strategy and coordination for Anthropic's compute build-out in Canada.
• Serve as the primary point of accountability for cross-functional workstreams.
• Provide working leadership to the in-country cross-functional team.
• Represent Anthropic with government officials, utilities, energy providers, and other external stakeholders in Canada.
• Build and maintain relationships within the Canadian government and the energy industry.
• Track progress and surface risks across parallel workstreams.
• Translate between Anthropic's global compute priorities and Canadian regulatory, political, and market conditions.

Required qualifications

• Structured thinker with a track record of learning new domains quickly and going deep fast.
• Excellent communicator, comfortable representing Anthropic to senior government, utility, and industry stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams without direct line authority.
• Hyper-organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to own multiple concurrent workstreams at once.
• Comfortable with ambiguity; a problem solver who drives structure into undefined situations.
• Background in energy, infrastructure, or a related sector.
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Field of study relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Nice to have

• Canadian national with established links into government and the energy industry strongly preferred.
• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Office space

Before you apply

• We do sponsor visas, though not for every role and candidate.

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.