Anthropic
Procurement Operations Business Partner, R&D Operations
$190K–$230K
San Francisco, CA +2 · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Minimum years correlate with internal job level requirements; preferred experience is 5-7+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; if an offer is made, Anthropic will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa and provides immigration counsel.
About the job
Owns end-to-end procurement operations for research teams and programs, ensuring purchasing is efficient, financially accurate, and supported by reliable controls.
What you'll do
- Manage purchase requests, contracts, purchase orders, work orders, change orders, renewals, and vendor coordination for R&D.
- Ensure accurate coding, receipts, open-PO management, month-end accrual review, and resolution of invoice issues with Accounting and Accounts Payable.
- Set up procurement processes for new programs, support requesters, maintain playbooks, and improve workflows using automation and AI.
What they ask for
- Track record owning a high-volume purchasing portfolio end-to-end in procure-to-pay and an intake platform.
- Working knowledge of purchasing accrual accounting, including accruals and reversals, service periods and cutoff, prepaid versus expense, and GL and cost center coding.
- Experience supporting outsourced or managed service vendors at scale.
- Working knowledge of how contract, security and privacy reviews, and financial controls fit into purchasing.
Nice to have
- 5-7+ years of procurement operations, purchasing, or vendor operations, including support for research, engineering, hardware, or outsourced services.
- Experience with Zip, Workday Financials, and Ironclad.
Pay
$190,000 — $230,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Claude, Zip, Workday Financials, Ironclad
AI focus
Use Claude and AI-enabled workflow automation to improve procurement intake, document review, vendor coordination, and requester support.
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