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Compute Country Lead, Japan at Anthropic

Compute Country Lead, Japan

Anthropic · JP

1 months ago

Compute Country Lead, Japan

Anthropic · JP

a month ago
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About the Role

Anthropic is seeking a Country Lead for Japan to own and execute the company's compute strategy, overseeing site selection, leasing, energy, financing, government relations, community engagement, construction, and operations to bring gigawatts of compute online. This high-ambiguity, high-trust role requires cross-functional leadership and external representation in Japan.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end strategy and coordination for Anthropic's compute build-out in Japan, from initial site selection through construction and operations.
  • Serve as the primary point of accountability for cross-functional workstreams including leasing, financing, energy, government relations/policy, community engagement, construction, and operations.
  • Provide working leadership to the in-country cross-functional team, driving alignment and unblocking issues.
  • Represent Anthropic with government officials, utilities, energy providers, and other external stakeholders in Japan.
  • Build and maintain relationships within the Japanese government and the energy industry to support site, power, and policy outcomes.
  • Track progress and surface risks across parallel workstreams as the country's compute footprint scales.
  • Translate between Anthropic's global compute priorities and the specific regulatory, political, and market conditions in Japan.

Requirements

  • Japanese national with established links into government and the energy industry strongly preferred.
  • Structured thinker with a track record of learning new domains quickly and going deep fast.
  • Excellent communicator, comfortable representing Anthropic to senior government, utility, and industry stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams without direct line authority.
  • Hyper-organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to own multiple concurrent workstreams.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity; a problem solver who drives structure into undefined situations.
  • Background in energy, infrastructure, or a related sector.
  • Prior experience with large-scale infrastructure or datacenter development.
  • Existing relationships with Japanese federal or provincial government bodies relevant to energy, land use, or industrial development.
  • Experience managing or overseeing capital-intensive projects.
  • Familiarity with the compute, cloud, or datacenter industry.

Skills

  • Cross-functional leadership
  • Coordination
  • External representation
  • Government relations
  • Energy industry relations
  • Communication
  • Problem-solving
  • Organizational skills
  • Detail-oriented

Location

  • Japan

Work Type

  • Location-based hybrid policy (minimum 25% in office)

Experience Level

  • Years of experience required will correlate with internal job level requirements

Education Level

  • Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
  • A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Office space

About the Company

  • Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society.
  • The team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders.
  • Anthropic believes that the highest-impact AI research will be big science, working as a single cohesive team on large-scale research efforts.
  • The company values impact and advancing long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI.
  • AI research is viewed as an empirical science with similarities to physics and biology.
  • The company is collaborative, hosting frequent research discussions to pursue high-impact work.
  • Communication skills are highly valued.
  • Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco.

Equal Opportunity

  • 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.
  • 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, making representation even more important.
  • We strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.