Strategic Account Executive, Industries

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

You may be a good fit if you:

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

Deadline to apply:  None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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:

$380,000 — $450,000 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 req