Finance & Strategy Manager, Machines

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>We are seeking a Strategic Finance leader to manage the “machines” finance function covering the chips and accelerators that run our models. </p> <p>In this role, you will be a key partner to our hardware infrastructure teams, providing financial expertise and guidance to drive hardware decisions. You will own the near and long-term forecasts for hardware, support deal teams, and our engineering teams on hardware ROI decisions.</p> <h2><strong>Key responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Own the economics of chip and accelerator capacity: cost per chip-hour and TCO across chip generations</li> <li>Evaluate capacity offers and hardware commitments with the Compute deal team: pricing across chip types, counterparties, and structures</li> <li>Partner with Capacity Planning and Hardware Engineering on the financial analysis influencing machine strategy</li> <li>Own the hardware forecast: delivery volumes by chip over time, expenses, and cash flows</li> <li>Build and manage the Machines finance team; set the operating cadence with central FP&A and Accounting</li> <li>Serve as the accountable owner for machines FP&A into forecast and close cycles</li> <li>Coordinate with Accounting, Treasury, and Infra FP&A on accounting treatment and forecast inputs</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Minimum qualifications</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Owned hardware, semiconductor, or hyperscaler capacity economics</li> <li>Experience managing or mentoring finance talent</li> <li>Strong analytical skills and the judgment to turn an ambiguous structure into a clear financial <strong>recommendation</strong></li> <li>Comfort partnering closely with engineering and commercial teams under deal-timeline pressure</li> <li>Passion for Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Preferred qualifications</strong></h2> <ul> <li>8+ years in strategic finance, FP&A, or capacity/infrastructure finance</li> <li>Capacity planning or infrastructure finance experience at a hyperscaler or major chip maker</li> <li>Experience standing up a new finance function</li> <li>MBA, CFA, or equivalent</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. </p> <p>For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.</p></div><div class="title">Annual Salary:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$325,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$425,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><h2><strong>Logistics</strong></h2> <p><strong>Minimum education: </strong>Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience</p> <p><strong>Required field of study: </strong>A field relevant to the role