Account Executive, Startups

Anthropic Anthropic · AI Frontier · Seoul, South Korea · Sales

This role is for an Account Executive focused on selling Anthropic's AI products to startups. The primary responsibility is to drive revenue and adoption by understanding customer needs, educating them on LLMs, and helping them succeed with Anthropic's offerings. The role involves full sales cycle ownership, designing sales strategies, market expansion, and gathering customer feedback to inform product roadmaps. While the company builds AI, this role is sales-focused and not directly involved in building or researching AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Win new business and drive revenue for Anthropic in Korea. Find your way to the right people at prospective customers, educate them about LLMs, and help them succeed with Anthropic. You’ll own the full sales cycle, from first outbound to launch
  2. Design and execute innovative sales strategies to meet and exceed revenue quotas. Analyze market landscapes, trends, and dynamics to translate high-level plans into targeted sales activities, partnerships, and campaigns
  3. Spearhead market expansion by pinpointing new customer segments and use cases. Collaborate cross-functionally to differentiate our offerings and sustain a competitive edge
  4. Inform product roadmaps and features by gathering customer feedback and conveying market needs. Provide insights that strengthen our value proposition and enhance the customer experience
  5. Continuously refine the sales methodology by incorporating learnings into playbooks, templates, and best practices. Identify process improvements that optimize sales productivity and consistency

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of experience prospecting and closing startup leads, driving adoption of emerging technologies with a consultative, solutions-oriented sales approach
  • Familiarity working within complex sales cycles, selling to technical stakeholders, and securing strategic deals by understanding multifaceted technical requirements and crafting tailored solutions
  • Success as a strategic business advisor, deeply understanding the needs of startup founders and creating innovative solutions that align with their vision and help them succeed
  • Exposure to negotiating complex, customized commercial agreements with multiple stakeholders
  • Demonstrated history of exceeding quota by effectively qualifying and advancing opportunities in a fast-paced work environment
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to present confidently and build connections across all customer levels, from ICs to C-level executives
  • A knack for bringing order to chaos and an enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves'' mentality. You are a true team player
  • Analytical approach to understanding customer needs combined with creative follow-up to advance opportunities
  • A strategic, analytical approach to assessing markets combined with creative, tactical execution to capture opportunities

Nice to have

  • Passion for emerging technologies like AI, with interest in ensuring they are developed safely and responsibly
  • A passion for and/or experience with advanced AI systems. You feel strongly about ensuring frontier AI systems are developed safely

What the JD emphasized

  • drive adoption of safe, frontier AI
  • advancing the ethical development of AI
  • passion for developing new market segments
  • pinpointing high-potential opportunities
  • executing strategies to capture them
  • drive deployment of Anthropic's emerging products
  • help enterprises obtain new capabilities
  • passion for emerging technologies like AI
  • ensuring they are developed safely and responsibly
  • passion for and/or experience with advanced AI systems
  • ensuring frontier AI systems are developed safely