Energy Special Projects

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. What is the need and role Anthropic's mission depends on compute, and compute depends on power. Today, energy is increasingly the binding constraint on how fast frontier AI infrastructure comes online. The energy team sources, structures, and contracts that power, and its work touches nearly every part of the company and a growing set of people outside it. We're looking for someone to join the energy team in a special projects role: to take on the problems that don't sit inside any one deal or region, and to carry them wherever they lead. That means working in three circles. Inside Compute, with the teams that site, design, build, finance, and operate our data centers. Across Anthropic, with policy, legal, communications, finance, and the other teams that need energy depth or whose work shapes ours. And outside the company, with FERC, state commissions and agencies, RTOs and ISOs, utilities, industry working groups, and other large energy customers. It's a "figure it out / get it done" role for someone who can chase down issues while bringing real depth in energy: the kind of person who can untangle a power delivery problem with design and delivery in the morning, brief the policy team on what a FERC proceeding means for our sites in the afternoon, speak for us on a working group call the next day, and then pick up an unrelated problem the energy team needs solved that week. Much of the job is building coalitions among complex, multi-functional groups of stakeholders, and then running the project all the way to completion. What you'll do 1/ Inside Compute • Working with the head of energy, pick up cross-functional problems as they arise that have no natural owner, work them with the teams involved to a decision, process, or tool, then hand them off and move on to the next one. • Connect the energy commercial leads with site selection, data center design, delivery, operations, and finance, so that everyone plans on the same assumptions about power: when it arrives, how much, how reliable, and at what cost. • Write the strategy documents, decision memos, and leadership updates that explain the energy team's choices to executives who do not work in energy. • Build the processes and tools, with Claude, that keep the team's commitments, open decisions, and stakeholder record current, so none of it depends on one person's memory. • Run the team's planning rhythm: priorities, headcount plan, consultant roster, and follow-up on open decisions. 2/ Across Anthropic • Be the energy team's first point of contact for policy, legal, communications, community relations, finance, and other teams, and make sure their questions get a fast, accurate answer from the right person. • Serve as an energy subject matter expert for the policy team and work with them on the company's positions on energy issues. • Give communications and community relations plain answers on what a site's power supply means for local rates, reliability, and emissions. • Keep what we sign and what we say in public consistent with each other and with Anthropic's ratepayer-protection commitment. • Prepare energy team leaders and executives for outside meetings, panels, and testimony, and follow through on what comes out of them. 3/ Outside the company • Represent the energy team in the industry working groups, trade associations, large-customer coalitions, and research collaborations we belong to: sit in the room, shape the work, and bring back what matters. • Working with policy and legal, engage with FERC, state commissions, agencies and legislatures, and RTO and ISO stakeholder processes on the issues that affect our portfolio. • Tell the commercial leads what a proposed tariff or rule does to a deal early enough to change the negotiation. • Build and keep relationships with utilities, grid operators, regulators' staff, and counterparts at other large-load customers. • Manage the outside counsel, consultants, and analysts who support this work: scope, budget, and quality. You may be a good fit if you • Have 6+ years in energy policy, energy markets, or energy strategy. • Have built coalitions among complex, multi-functional stakeholder groups, inside and outside your own organization. • Have run projects to completion, from an unclear question to a finished result, across teams that do not report to you. • Can read a tariff, an energy services agreement, or a FERC order yourself and explain what it means commercially for a large customer. • Know how state commissions and RTO or ISO stakeholder processes work in practice. • Write quickly and plainly, for executives outside energy and for outside audiences. • Have good judgment about what to say in public, who should say it, and when to say nothing. • Are comfortable with unscoped work and with switching between very different problems in the same week. Strong candidates may also have • Experience with data centers or other large loads, on the customer, developer, or utility side. • Commercial experience: time spent negotiating utility service agreements, energy services agreements, or PPAs, or advising the people who do. • Time in a chief of staff, strategy, or consulting role. • Direct experience in a FERC or state commission proceeding, or in an RTO or ISO working group. • Familiarity with gas as well as power. The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. 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. Annual Salar