Head of Logistics

Anthropic$365K — $435K *
Transportation
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in global hardware logistics at hyperscaler, OEM/ODM, telecom, or energy infrastructure level.
  • Proven experience in authoring SOPs and QA systems for hardware operations.
  • Business ownership of a WMS/inventory/asset-lifecycle system with emphasis on data quality.
  • Expertise in moving heavy equipment including permits, rigging, and site receiving.
  • Experience in building logistics functions from the ground up, including team hiring and process establishment.
  • Fluency in trade compliance for dual-use electronics across multiple regions (NA/EU/APAC).
  • Versatile communicator, comfortable in vendor meetings, software discussions, and on loading docks.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of processes and SOPs for all logistics operations.
  • Establish and manage the warehousing and inventory strategies.
  • Oversee the asset-lifecycle platform in partnership with software teams.
  • Manage high-value shipping operations ensuring chain-of-custody and security.
  • Coordinate heavy logistics, including permits and site receiving plans.
  • Ensure compliance with trade regulations and manage reverse logistics.
  • Build and lead a team of logistics and operations professionals.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available with support from immigration lawyers.
  • Hybrid work policy requiring 25% in-office attendance.
  • Opportunity to lead and shape a global logistics function.
  • Engagement with high-value materials and complex logistics operations.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams to define and enhance systems.
Full Job Description
Infrastructure Expansion holds the majority of Anthropic's deployed capital assets and moves them through a global network of warehouses, integrators, and field sites. The freight ranges from a tray of optics to a generator on a lowboy; one lost shipment cascades into a slipped site. You'll build and lead this function. The job has four centers of gravity: process and SOP engineering so a thousand contractors execute the same way at every site; warehousing and inventory management, including being the business owner for the asset-lifecycle platform our software team is building; shipping and logistics ops for high-value equipment with real chain-of-custody and security; and heavy/oversized material movement - generators, switchgear, integrated racks - from factory to pad. You're building the team and the playbook, and you're measured on whether the right thing shows up at the right dock, on time, intact, every time. What you'll do • Own process and SOP engineering. Author the procedures that govern receiving, inspection, kitting, integration, ship-out, install, and RMA - and the QA/audit loop that proves they're being followed. Turn field incidents into process changes, not memos. • Run warehousing and inventory. Stand up the warehouse network (3PL vs. in-house), the sparing model that keeps every PoP inside its replacement SLA, and cycle-count/reconciliation discipline that keeps book and floor in agreement. • Be the business owner for the asset-lifecycle platform. Partner with the Core Services software team building our inventory/ALM system - define the data model, state machine, and EDI/WMS integrations it needs; you decide what "correct inventory" means, they make the system enforce it. • Own high-value shipping operations. Carrier selection and management, lane risk assessment, GPS/tamper traceability, named handoff owners, insurance and claims - so when something goes missing we know where, when, and who before it costs us a site date. • Own heavy and oversized logistics. Generators, switchgear, fully-integrated racks: route surveys, permits, rigging and crane coordination, shock/vibe acceptance criteria, and the site-receiving plan on the other end. • Run trade compliance and reverse logistics. ECCN/ITAR classification and licensing across jurisdictions; RMA, repair/refurb, decommission and disposition. • Build the team. Hire and lead warehouse ops, logistics coordinators, process/QA engineers, and trade compliance. This is a build-the-function role. You may be a good fit if you • Have run global hardware logistics at hyperscaler, large OEM/ODM, telecom, or energy-infra scale - multi-site warehouse network, 3PL management, high-value and oversized freight. • Have personally written the SOPs and the QA system for a hardware operation, and have the scar tissue from the time the SOP existed but nobody followed it. • Have been the business-side owner of a WMS / inventory / asset-lifecycle system - defined requirements, drove the integration, owned data quality. • Have moved heavy equipment (generators, transformers, skids, prefab modules) including permits, rigging, and site receiving - not just parcel and LTL. • Have stood up a function from near-zero: picked the systems, wrote the processes, hired the team, owned the number. • Are fluent in trade compliance for dual-use electronics across NA/EU/APAC. • Are equally comfortable in a vendor QBR, a software requirements review, and on a loading dock. Nice to have • Network/optical hardware specifically - line systems, pluggables, chassis - and the failure/sparing math that goes with it. • Secure-logistics or high-theft-lane experience (semiconductor, pharma, defense, precious metals). • Central integration / rack-build line experience, including shock/vibe qualification. • Supply-chain analytics or cost-attribution background. The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Annual Salary: $365,000-$435,000 USD Logistics Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices. Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on developing AI systems that are safe, reliable, and trustworthy. The company was founded in 2019 by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher and winner of the Turing Award. Anthropic's research is focused on developing AI systems that can learn from small amounts of data, reason about complex systems, and interact with humans in a natural way. The company is based in New York City and has a team of experienced AI researchers and engineers.
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