Cloud Planning Lead

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Manage strategic planning and operational processes for critical cloud partnerships, driving collaboration across teams to ensure alignment and accountability.

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 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: Reporting to the Head of Cloud Planning & Programs , the Cloud Planning Lead will manage the strategic planning and operational cadence that powers Anthropic's most critical Cloud partnerships. This role will be responsible for establishing and managing rhythm of business reviews, planning cycles, and processes for new priority partners.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead partner strategy and planning: Drive annual and quarterly planning processes with strategic partners, establishing shared goals, success metrics, and actionable execution plans
  • Establish executive business review cadence for new priority partners: Own the MBR/QBR rhythm—developing strategy, coordinating cross-functional input, and crafting executive-ready narratives
  • Drive cross-functional coordination: Lead internal collaboration across Product, Engineering, Finance, Sales, and Corporate Development to ensure alignment on partner priorities and accountability to shared goals
  • Program manage strategic execution: Drive accountability on key action items and milestones to ensure partnership goals stay on track
  • Own executive stakeholder management: Build and maintain stakeholder maps across partner organizations; develop executive communication strategies and materials to strengthen senior relationships and ensure aligned messaging
  • Scope and implement new partner processes: Stand up operational processes from 0 to 1 for new partners, including deal registration, reporting, and funding programs

 

You may be a good fit if you:

  • 7-10+ years of experience, including:
    • 3-6 years in management consulting or investment banking
    • 3-6 years in  business strategy, Chief of Staff, or strategic operations at a tech company (Google, Microsoft, Amazon preferred)
  • Proven ability to operate as a strategic thought partner to senior leaders while driving detailed execution
  • Outstanding stakeholder management and communication skills, with ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders across all organizational levels
  • Exceptional program management skills with demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives with competing priorities
  • Strong analytical skills with ability to build business cases and measure ROI; experience with data analysis tools and reporting platforms (SQL, Hex, Looker, or similar)
  • Excellent executive communication skills—able to synthesize complex information into clear narratives for internal and external stakeholders
  • Change management expertise; comfortable building processes from scratch in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
  • Experience with cloud partnerships, channel programs, or enterprise go-to-market preferred
  • Experience leveraging AI tools to drive efficiency and outcomes

The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.

Annual Salary:
$215,000$285,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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.

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. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Flexible Work Hours: 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.
  • Visa Sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate.

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company in San Francisco, specializing in building reliable, interpretable AI systems. Their AI assistant, Claude, offers fast, capable, and conversational support for tasks at any scale.

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