The opportunity
Procurement Operations is the front door for buying at Anthropic. We sit inside Finance Operations and own the path from “I need to buy something” to a signed agreement, an accurate purchase order, and clean spend data at month-end.
What you'll do
Manage a high volume of purchase requests, work orders, and change orders: each month across research teams and programs, keeping speed and accuracy high at the same time.
Serve as the primary procurement partner for Anthropic's research teams and: special programs, guiding requesters from initial request to signed agreement and issued purchase order.
Review every purchase request in your portfolio for the things that matter: downstream: the right vendor record and contracting entity, complete commercial documents, correct spend categorization and service dates, and the approvals the purchase actually needs.
Determine what each request requires before it can move, whether that is a: statement of work, an order form, an amendment, a security or privacy review, or a third party risk assessment, and route it to the right reviewers the first time.
Launch and track contract review with Legal, keep it moving, and confirm the: executed agreement supports the purchase order before it is issued.
Structure purchase orders so they match how the vendor bills (fixed fee,: milestone, per-unit, or usage in arrears) and how Accounting needs to see the spend, with the right GL account, cost center, and service period on every line. Manage change orders, renewals, and closures over the life of each agreement.
What they're looking for
- + years of procurement operations, purchasing, or vendor operations,: including time supporting a research, engineering, hardware, or outsourced services organization.
- Experience as the embedded procurement partner for a hyper scaling data: operations, ML, RL, and lab environments
- Time at a hypergrowth technology company scaling procurement operations for: outsourced or vendor delivered work.
- Background in accounting, accounts payable, or a month-end close process,: including experience with three-way match
- Sourced human data, data labeling, annotation, or evaluation vendors (or: comparable BPO and outsourced operations) with a point of view on where that market is heading
- Direct experience with Zip, Workday Financials, and Ironclad.
- Prior ownership of month end accrual review or open PO reconciliation for a large, variable spend portfolio
- Experience designing tiered intake or approval frameworks that sped up low: risk purchases without weakening controls.
