Job description:
About the Roles
Two new data center asset management contractor roles - one role focuses on operationalizing asset management tasks, while the other focuses on handling workload associated with negotiating problematic contracts.
Each role involves managing between two and five contracts or projects at any given time.
We are opening a single job requisition rather than two separate ones to leverage a shared candidate pool.
Role #1: Performance Coordinator, Data Center Projects
About the role
When a project is behind, we sometimes fund acceleration: labor incentives, extra shifts, expedited equipment, payments that unblock a trade. Someone has to know whether that money reached the people doing the work and whether it bought schedule. That is this role.
It is not an accounting job. You own the judgment: what each dollar is buying, which contractors are performing, what the contract incentives are really doing to behavior, and where the next dollar should go. Your findings change how we run the program. We measure, recommend and set conditions on our own funding. The developer and its contractors run the work.
What you will do
- Map how funds move from Anthropic through the developer and landlord to the general contractor and trades on each project, including lender controls that can trap cash, and confirm the money lands where it was meant to.
- Read the liquidated damages, bonus and payment terms in the construction contracts to understand each contractor's real incentives, and flag where damages exposure or unpaid amounts are stalling work.
- Build a simple scorecard of contractor performance (schedule against baseline, crew levels, milestone completion, rework) tied to each funding tranche.
- Compare results across spend types and across sites, say which dollars bought the most schedule, and recommend what to fund more, change or stop.
- Run the tiered check on spot spend: small items logged, mid size items to the team for same day sign off, large items to Finance for approval. Push back when a request has no basis.
- Own site reconciliations and settle the books monthly with the counterparties.
- Give the negotiators the facts they need on delay credits, damages and claims.
- Spend time on site with contractor and developer management.
You may be a good fit if you
- Have managed or monitored the commercial side of large construction projects from the owner, developer or lender side.
- Can put a schedule update and a pay application side by side and tell whether they describe the same project.
- Understand liquidated damages, incentive and retention schemes, retainage, pay when paid terms, lien waivers and change orders, and how they drive contractor behavior.
- Build your own analysis from messy data without waiting for a system.
- Will tell senior people that a spend is not working, with the evidence.
- Think in terms of program design, not transaction processing.
Strong candidates may also
- Have data center, power or other mission critical experience.
- Have worked as a lender's construction monitor or independent engineer certifying draws against progress.
- Have done earned value or forensic delay analysis.
- Have designed craft labor incentive programs (per diem, retention, completion bonuses).
Role #2: Turnaround Program Lead, Data Center Projects
About the role
A negotiated deal only works if what was agreed happens. This role owns that. Before a negotiation you work out what is really wrong at a site. After signing you turn the deal into a plan with owners, dates and evidence, run the cadence between the companies, and call slippage early enough to fix it. Then you carry what worked to the next site.
This is not a construction project manager role. Our construction team owns delivery and commissioning. You own what the parties owe each other under the deal.
What you will do
- Before a negotiation, work with our construction site lead and with developer and landlord management to build the problem map: what is late, why, who controls the fix, and what a commercial change could unlock.
- After signing, turn the deal into an execution plan where every obligation has an owner, a date and a standard of evidence. A recent deal has a responsibility matrix of more than 100 lines.
- Run the weekly cadence between Anthropic, the developer and the landlord. Keep the action log and close items on evidence, not on someone saying it is done.
- Call slippage early, separate construction problems (to our construction team) from commercial ones (to the negotiators), and bring a proposed unblock with it.
- Keep the obligations register, insurance certificates and counterparty deliverables current.
- Improve how the companies work together: escalation paths, incident process, scorecards.
- Write the playbook and take it to the next site.
You may be a good fit if you
- Have led the recovery of a capital project or a multi party program that was off track.
- Can walk into an unfamiliar situation and within two weeks give a clear account of what is wrong and who can fix it.
- Get things done through people who do not report to you, inside the company and at counterparties.
- Read contracts well enough to know what was promised.
- Write clearly and briefly.
- Treat done as something you can show.
Strong candidates may also
- Have worked as an owner's representative or development manager on data center, industrial or energy projects.
- Have a turnaround, restructuring or operational consulting background.
- Build lightweight tracking with AI tools instead of heavy systems.