Anthropic
Strategic Account Executive, Industries
Anthropic, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Strategic Account Executive, Industries
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About Anthropic 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.
About the Role As a Strategic Account Executive at Anthropic, you'll drive the adoption of safe, frontier AI by securing strategic deals with top enterprises across key industry verticals, unlocking new value streams throughout their business. You'll leverage your consultative sales expertise to propel revenue growth while becoming a trusted partner to customers, helping them embed and deploy AI while uncovering its full range of capabilities. In collaboration with GTM, product, and marketing teams, you'll continuously refine our value proposition, sales methodology, and market positioning to ensure differentiated value across key industry verticals.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for developing industry‑specific market segments, pinpointing high‑potential opportunities within key industry verticals, and executing strategies to capture them. By driving deployment of Anthropic’s emerging products, you will help enterprises obtain new capabilities while also advancing the ethical development of AI.
Responsibilities
Win new business and drive revenue within a book of strategic industry accounts; own the full sales cycle from prospecting to close, identifying and developing new opportunities across multiple business units and use cases within key industry verticals.
Navigate complex organizational structures and build consensus among diverse stakeholder groups; develop multi‑threaded relationships from individual contributors to C‑suite executives across industry enterprises.
Design and execute innovative sales strategies to meet and exceed revenue quotas; analyze your industry accounts’ landscape, trends, and dynamics to translate high‑level plans into targeted sales activities and campaigns.
Spearhead expansion by pinpointing new use cases and business units within key industry verticals; collaborate cross‑functionally to differentiate our offerings and sustain a competitive edge within your strategic industry accounts.
Own sophisticated deal cycles involving multiple stakeholders, technical evaluations, and complex procurement processes; demonstrate resourcefulness when faced with challenges that defy easy solutions.
Build and maintain accurate pipeline forecasting while ensuring high forecast accuracy and consistency; identify a robust set of business drivers behind all opportunities.
Inform product roadmaps and features by gathering customer feedback and conveying key industry market needs; provide insights that strengthen our value proposition and enhance the customer experience within industry verticals.
Continuously refine the sales methodology by incorporating learnings into playbooks, templates, and best practices; identify process improvements that optimize sales productivity and consistency across key industry verticals.
Qualifications
10+ years of enterprise sales experience with a proven track record of closing complex deals with strategic accounts; experience managing sophisticated sales cycles and securing deals with extended timelines and multiple stakeholders across key industry verticals.
Experience selling emerging technologies or complex solutions to large industry enterprises; ability to navigate technical evaluations and translate complex capabilities into business value for industry‑specific use cases.
Strong executive presence with demonstrated ability to engage C‑suite executives and senior stakeholders; experience presenting to boards and aligning solutions with strategic business initiatives within key industry verticals.
Exceptional relationship building skills with proven ability to develop multi‑threaded relationships across large organizations; experience building consensus among diverse stakeholder groups in industry environments.
Consultative sales approach with a focus on understanding customer business challenges and crafting tailored solutions; ability to position yourself as a strategic advisor rather than a vendor within key industry verticals.
Strong cross‑functional collaboration skills with an ability to mobilize internal resources including product, engineering, and partnership teams; experience coordinating complex deals that require multiple internal stakeholders.
Resourcefulness and problem‑solving abilities when faced with complex challenges; demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguous situations and find creative solutions.
High level of organization and attention to detail with strong forecasting accuracy; ability to manage multiple complex opportunities simultaneously.
Passion for AI and emerging technologies with enthusiasm for helping industry organizations transform through responsible AI deployment; strong alignment with Anthropic’s mission of developing safe, beneficial AI systems.
Other Information Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Annual Salary: $360,000—$435,000 USD.
Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Location‑based hybrid policy: We expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. Some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa Sponsorship: We sponsor visas, but we may not be able to sponsor everyone. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.
We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification. Diversity and inclusion are important to us.
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate.
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About Anthropic 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.
About the Role As a Strategic Account Executive at Anthropic, you'll drive the adoption of safe, frontier AI by securing strategic deals with top enterprises across key industry verticals, unlocking new value streams throughout their business. You'll leverage your consultative sales expertise to propel revenue growth while becoming a trusted partner to customers, helping them embed and deploy AI while uncovering its full range of capabilities. In collaboration with GTM, product, and marketing teams, you'll continuously refine our value proposition, sales methodology, and market positioning to ensure differentiated value across key industry verticals.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for developing industry‑specific market segments, pinpointing high‑potential opportunities within key industry verticals, and executing strategies to capture them. By driving deployment of Anthropic’s emerging products, you will help enterprises obtain new capabilities while also advancing the ethical development of AI.
Responsibilities
Win new business and drive revenue within a book of strategic industry accounts; own the full sales cycle from prospecting to close, identifying and developing new opportunities across multiple business units and use cases within key industry verticals.
Navigate complex organizational structures and build consensus among diverse stakeholder groups; develop multi‑threaded relationships from individual contributors to C‑suite executives across industry enterprises.
Design and execute innovative sales strategies to meet and exceed revenue quotas; analyze your industry accounts’ landscape, trends, and dynamics to translate high‑level plans into targeted sales activities and campaigns.
Spearhead expansion by pinpointing new use cases and business units within key industry verticals; collaborate cross‑functionally to differentiate our offerings and sustain a competitive edge within your strategic industry accounts.
Own sophisticated deal cycles involving multiple stakeholders, technical evaluations, and complex procurement processes; demonstrate resourcefulness when faced with challenges that defy easy solutions.
Build and maintain accurate pipeline forecasting while ensuring high forecast accuracy and consistency; identify a robust set of business drivers behind all opportunities.
Inform product roadmaps and features by gathering customer feedback and conveying key industry market needs; provide insights that strengthen our value proposition and enhance the customer experience within industry verticals.
Continuously refine the sales methodology by incorporating learnings into playbooks, templates, and best practices; identify process improvements that optimize sales productivity and consistency across key industry verticals.
Qualifications
10+ years of enterprise sales experience with a proven track record of closing complex deals with strategic accounts; experience managing sophisticated sales cycles and securing deals with extended timelines and multiple stakeholders across key industry verticals.
Experience selling emerging technologies or complex solutions to large industry enterprises; ability to navigate technical evaluations and translate complex capabilities into business value for industry‑specific use cases.
Strong executive presence with demonstrated ability to engage C‑suite executives and senior stakeholders; experience presenting to boards and aligning solutions with strategic business initiatives within key industry verticals.
Exceptional relationship building skills with proven ability to develop multi‑threaded relationships across large organizations; experience building consensus among diverse stakeholder groups in industry environments.
Consultative sales approach with a focus on understanding customer business challenges and crafting tailored solutions; ability to position yourself as a strategic advisor rather than a vendor within key industry verticals.
Strong cross‑functional collaboration skills with an ability to mobilize internal resources including product, engineering, and partnership teams; experience coordinating complex deals that require multiple internal stakeholders.
Resourcefulness and problem‑solving abilities when faced with complex challenges; demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguous situations and find creative solutions.
High level of organization and attention to detail with strong forecasting accuracy; ability to manage multiple complex opportunities simultaneously.
Passion for AI and emerging technologies with enthusiasm for helping industry organizations transform through responsible AI deployment; strong alignment with Anthropic’s mission of developing safe, beneficial AI systems.
Other Information Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Annual Salary: $360,000—$435,000 USD.
Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Location‑based hybrid policy: We expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. Some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa Sponsorship: We sponsor visas, but we may not be able to sponsor everyone. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.
We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification. Diversity and inclusion are important to us.
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate.
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