Procurement Operations Business Partner, Technology

San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA · San Francisco · USD 190,000-230,000 / year · 7+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 7, 2026

At a glance

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

Procurement Operations is the front door for buying at Anthropic, sitting inside Finance Operations and owning the path from request to a signed agreement.
The Procurement Operations Business Partner will own that path for technology spend, focusing on business applications, SaaS tools, cloud and infrastructure services, and engineering tools.
This high-volume role with an accounting core ensures every software purchase is coded, dated, received, and accrued correctly.

Manage a high volume of purchase requests, renewals, and license changes each month across the organization.
Serve as the primary procurement partner for the teams buying in your categories, guiding requesters from initial request to signed agreement and issued purchase order.
Review every purchase request in your portfolio for downstream requirements including vendor records, commercial documents, spend categorization, and approvals.
Determine what else each request requires before it can move, such as an order form, data privacy review, or third-party risk assessment, and route it to the right reviewers.
Partner with Security to run a vendor security review on every new tool and at every renewal.
Launch and track contract review with Legal and confirm the executed agreement supports the purchase order before it is issued.
Structure purchase orders to match vendor billing models and accounting needs with the correct GL account, cost center, and service period.
Track license counts and renewal dates across your portfolio to prevent unexpected auto-renewals or lapses, flagging underused or overlapping tools.
Code every purchase order correctly at creation and handle month-end accruals, reconciliations, and AP coordination.
Maintain playbooks, intake guidance, and standard operating procedures while identifying manual steps and automation opportunities using Claude.

Proven track record of owning a high-volume purchasing portfolio end-to-end in a procure-to-pay and intake platform.
Solid working knowledge of accrual accounting as it applies to purchasing, including accruals, reversals, service period, cutoff, prepaid versus expense, and GL/cost center coding.
Experience buying and managing software or SaaS at scale, including seat-based, usage-based, and tiered subscription billing models.
Experience owning the tool and vendor lifecycle end-to-end from intake through security review, contracting, renewal, and sunset.

7+ years of procurement operations, purchasing, or vendor operations, including time supporting IT, engineering, or business systems teams.
Background in accounting, accounts payable, or a month-end close process.
Direct experience with Zip, Workday Financials, and Ironclad.
Prior ownership of month-end accrual review or open PO reconciliation for a large, variable spend portfolio.
Experience with software asset management or license optimization, including identifying underused or redundant tools.
Experience designing tiered intake or approval frameworks that sped up low risk purchases without weakening controls.

Location-based hybrid policy expecting staff to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time.