Energy Supply Lead - Power Supply and PPA

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

We are hiring a Power Supply & PPA Lead to own front-of-meter energy supply for Anthropic's non-cloud data center portfolio: the power purchase agreements and the wholesale and retail supply contracts that serve our grid-connected sites. As those sites energize, their load needs contracted supply, and these contracts will be among the largest long-term commitments the energy team makes. You will set the supply plan for each market, take it to generators and suppliers, structure and negotiate the agreements, and carry them through internal approval to signature. This supply is also central to Anthropic's ratepayer-protection commitment, so what a deal does for other customers on the system counts alongside price and term. You will work beside the teammates who originate sites and behind-the-meter generation, who buy and transport gas, and who schedule the portfolio once it operates. You are this function's first dedicated owner.

Responsibilities

Own the front-of-meter supply plan for the United States: for each grid-connected site and market, how much load to contract, from whom, for how long, at what price structure, and by when, set against the site's ramp and the portfolio view of energy need.

Take that plan to market. Build and keep relationships with generation owners, developers, independent power producers, and retail and wholesale suppliers; run competitive solicitations and bilateral negotiations; and compare offers on a like-for-like basis.

Structure and negotiate PPAs, tolls, capacity agreements, and other long-term supply agreements from term sheet to signature, with legal and outside counsel: price and shape, delivery point and basis, congestion and curtailment, commercial operation dates and delay remedies for new-build projects, credit support, change in law, assignment, and termination.

Make supply work under each market's rules: through retail providers and load-serving entities in competitive markets, and through utility tariffs, sleeved arrangements, and customer-sourced generation programs in regulated, cooperative, and public power territories. Work with the teammates who hold the utility relationship so the utility service agreement and the supply contract fit together.

Design the supply portfolio to deliver Anthropic's ratepayer-protection commitment, and be able to show that it does: work with policy and outside analysts on how the effect on other customers is measured, and bring that test into deal selection and contract terms.

Collaborate with Energy Finance on deal valuation and the risk view behind it: forward curves, shape and basis risk, capacity and ancillary costs, counterparty credit, and development risk.

Carry commitments through internal approval: write the deal memo, state the price, the exposure, and the alternatives plainly, and answer questions from executives who do not work in energy.