Head of Strategic Finance, Anthropic
Compute
$300-355k
For eligible roles, equity will be a major component of the total compensation
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AI safety and research company
Job no longer available
AI safety and research company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$300-355k
For eligible roles, equity will be a major component of the total compensation
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of experience across strategic finance, product finance, compute finance, private equity, growth equity, venture capital, consulting, and investment banking
- A minimum of 5+ years in leadership and management roles
- Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and develop / maintain complex financial operating models
- Extraordinary problem-solving and critical thinking abilities to navigate complex financial challenges
- Comfort working cross-functionally, communicating complex financial information to non-finance audiences
- Excitement about working in a fast paced, dynamic environment and adapt well to change
- A bias toward action, strong work ethic, and have experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines
- Strong relationship building, business judgment, process management, and communication skills
- Passion about Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems
Desirable
- Have deep experience with consumption-based and/or complex business models
- Have in-depth knowledge of and interest in cloud computing infrastructure
- Hold an MBA, a professional accounting certification, or other relevant advanced degree (e.g., J.D., CFA, data science, statistics)
- Possess strong SQL and data visualization (e.g., Looker, Tableau) skills
- Have a background in AI, ML, or related technologies
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Head of Strategic Finance for Compute at Anthropic
- In this role, you will provide end-to-end finance support for our research and engineering teams, providing financial expertise and guidance to support strategic decision-making
- As Anthropic continues to grow, you will play a crucial role in leading the team responsible for analyzing compute-related data, building financial models, and delivering insights to drive informed business decisions across compute allocation, significant capital outlays, and our technical efficiency
- This role will work closely with our Executive team and collaborate with other cross-functional members of the Finance organization to align our goals for compute with our broader financial objectives
- The ability to efficiently allocate and utilize compute resources can significantly impact the pace of innovation, the quality of AI models produced, and ultimately, Anthropic's competitive position
- If you are passionate about leveraging your financial acumen to support innovation and drive business success, join us on the frontier of making AI safe and impactful for humanity
- Lead, manage, and grow the Strategic Finance function for Compute
- Support pivotal investment decisions, managing ongoing infrastructure expenditures and new commitments to maximize returns on Anthropic’s infrastructure capital allocation
- Provide guidance and strategic recommendations to influence our technical leaders on financial strategies, investments, and resource allocation decisions, leveraging an in-depth understanding of the the technical aspects of compute and the company's financials (include pricing and packaging, new product development, cloud partnerships, and capacity planning)
- Cultivate strategic partnerships with cloud and hardware providers, supporting model development and deployment at the frontier of AI capabilities
- Prepare and deliver clear, concise, and insightful financial analyses and forecasts, highlighting key trends, risks, and opportunities relating to the company’s compute strategy to stakeholders, executives, and the Board
- Collaborate with the other leaders across Strategic Finance, Investor Relations and Accounting to help align our compute roadmap with our broader financial goals
- Lead the team to create effective dashboards, KPIs, and scorecards to track our operational and financial metrics relating to our infrastructure
- Maintain a pulse on market dynamics and competitive trends to continually refine and elevate our infrastructure strategy
Our take
Funded by Google and founded by ex-OpenAI employees, Anthropic is an AI company focused on building a reliable, innovative AI system. While the company is relatively new to the market it has already launched a highly anticipated AI chat assistant called Claude which is set to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Similar to other chatbots, Claude is accessible through a chat interface and can provide a number of conversation and text-processing tasks. A key point of differentiation is that Claude is designed to produce less harmful outputs than that of the other chatbots that came before it.
While there is much praise for the chat assistant, there is still room for improvement with feedback reporting that Claude is worse at maths and grammar compared to its rival. However, with industry giants like Google backing this company from an early stage, it is clear Anthropic has the potential to become a leading player within the AI industry.
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190% employee growth in 12 months
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Nov 2024
$4bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jul 2024
$50m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $11.8bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
- Generous subsidy for OneMedical
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching
- $500/month flexible wellness stipend
- Commuter coverage
- Annual education stipend
- A home office improvement stipend when you first join
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area
Company values
- Here for the mission: We pursue our mission by building frontier systems, studying their behaviors, working to responsibly deploy them, and regularly sharing our safety insights. We collaborate with other projects and stakeholders seeking a similar outcome.
- Unusually high trust: We assume good faith, disagree kindly, and prioritize honesty. We expect emotional maturity and intellectual openness. At its best, our trust enables us to make better decisions as an organization than any one of us could as individuals.
- Do the simple thing that works: We celebrate trying the simple thing before the clever, novel thing. We embrace pragmatism - sensible, practical approaches that acknowledge tradeoffs. We love empiricism - finding out what actually works by trying it - and apply this to our research, our engineering and our collaboration. We aim to be open about what we understand and what we don’t.
- One big team: Collaboration is central to our work, culture, and value proposition. While we have many teams at Anthropic, we feel the broader sense in which we are all on the same team working together towards the mission.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Dario Amodei
(CEO & Co-Founder)Spent almost 5 years at OpenAI as a Team Lead for AI safety and as the Vice President of Research. Also worked as a Research Scientist at Google.
Jared Kaplan
(Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder)Has been a Professor at John Hopkins University for the past 10 years. Also an experienced researcher having worked previously at OpenAI and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Jack Clark
(Co-Founder)Experienced reporter having worked previously at the Register and Bloomberg. Also worked for OpenAI in Strategy and Communications and as a Policy Director.
Sam McCandlish
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Theoretical Physics. Previously worked as a Research Lead at OpenAI.
Tom Brown
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Member of the Technical Staff for both OpenAI and Google Brain.
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