US Regional Manager, Data Center Capacity Delivery

About the role

Training and serving frontier AI models requires data center capacity at a scale and pace that conventional delivery models were not built for. Anthropic's Data Center Capacity Delivery team embeds with developers, general contractors, and third-party partners to take leased and partnered sites from deal close through floor access and operational handover as fast as they can safely be built.

 

As a Regional Manager, you'll own delivery across a regional portfolio of active and upcoming projects. You'll build and lead the team of Senior Delivery Managers and third-party partners who sit on those sites, set the standards they execute to, and step in yourself where a project needs it. You are the executive-level interface to our developer partners in the region and the intake point for projects handed over from our transaction team.

 

This is a highly cross-functional role: you'll work daily with our transaction, design engineering, facility operations and commissioning, deployment, and safety teams, and with developers, GCs, and owner's-representative firms on the ground.

MOC (Mission + Outcomes + Competencies)

Mission

Deliver the region’s data center projects to floor access as fast as they can safely be built.

Outcomes

• Every active project in the region delivered against early-floor-access and floor-access milestones.

• Senior Delivery Manager team hired and led; owner’s-rep partners contracted and managed.

• Delivery standards (schedule, quality, change control, reporting) enforced across the portfolio.

• Executive reporting on progress vs plan and regional capacity projections in place.

Competencies

• Senior owner- or GC-side mission-critical delivery leadership.

• Builds and leads multi-project teams.

• Executive-level developer and GC relationship management.

• Leads on site through presence; owns outcomes where no process exists.

Responsibilities

• Lead. This is a role where leadership trumps management and process. You are expected to be on the region's sites enough to shape the culture, approach, and aggressiveness that define the extended teams there — across the portfolio, not one project — and to impact outcomes in a favorable manner.

• Be a force multiplier. Hire, develop, empower, and lead the Senior Delivery Managers on those sites, and raise the skillset developers, contractors, owner's-rep partners, and key trades bring to every project in the region; plan resourcing and headcount as the portfolio grows.

• Own portfolio execution for the region — schedule, quality, and safety outcomes on every active project, measured against early-floor-access and floor-access milestones. You are empowered and have autonomy to own this region's record of performance.

• Drive ownership and influence both inside and outside contractual structures: select, scope, contract, and manage owner's-rep and project-management partners; where contracts, incentives, or culture get in the way of speed, change them, and replace partners when performance or culture slips

• Set and enforce delivery standards across projects — integrated schedule, quality requirements, change control, reporting, and tools — and validate that they are met

• Identify blockers early and clear them across developer, GC, and trade layers; step in on site where a project needs it

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 10+ years delivering data center or other mission-critical construction, including several as the owner's or GC's senior leader on a project campus

• Have led a multi-project portfolio and built the team that delivered it

• Know the end-to-end development process — entitlements and permitting, design, long-lead equipment, construction, commissioning, and handover — well enough to direct partners rather than take their word for it

• Have managed developer, GC, and third-party relationships at the executive level and can move them from arm's-length contract administration to shared urgency

• Lead through presence: you expect to be on site most of the time and to set the pace and culture of extended teams you don't directly employ

• Communicate clearly with technical and non-specialist stakeholders and hold a position when challenged

• Are comfortable with ambiguity and with owning outcomes where no process exists yet

Strong candidates may also have

• Hyperscale data center delivery experience on the owner, developer, or GC side

• Experience with the US & Texas market — its contractors, permitting regimes, and contractual norms

• Familiarity with lease, construction, and development contract structures and how to align their incentives around speed