Enterprise Account Executive, Industries

Anthropic Anthropic · AI Frontier · Sydney, Australia · Sales

Enterprise Account Executive focused on driving adoption of AI solutions within key industries in the Australian market. This role involves strategic deal-making, consultative sales, and collaborating with internal teams to refine value propositions and influence product roadmaps. The goal is to unlock new value streams for enterprises by embedding and deploying AI responsibly.

What you'd actually do

  1. Contribute to the Industries team GTM strategy, identifying new use cases within your assigned verticals, winning new business, and sharing feedback with cross-functional teams
  2. Drive strategic expansion within key accounts in established verticals and new logo acquisition within emerging verticals
  3. Break into new accounts and cross-sell into existing business alongside our team of Account Executives
  4. Own a revenue target and all aspects of the sales cycle from prospecting to close, including outbounding and engaging Tier 1 accounts
  5. Lead with conviction by providing clear recommendations based on deep industry expertise rather than presenting a menu of options

Skills

Required

  • Enterprise sales experience
  • Consultative sales approach
  • Technical acumen
  • Revenue growth
  • Customer partnership
  • AI adoption
  • GTM strategy
  • Sector-specific solutions
  • Cross-selling
  • Pricing strategy
  • Product roadmap influence
  • Solution-led selling
  • Strategic advisor
  • Industry expertise
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Market execution
  • Account expansion
  • New logo acquisition
  • Sales cycle management
  • Prospecting
  • Outbounding
  • Tier 1 account engagement
  • Deep industry expertise
  • Tailored AI solutions
  • Co-innovation
  • Sales collateral development
  • Proposal writing
  • Presentation skills
  • Sales tactics refinement
  • Best practice sharing
  • ANZ market experience
  • BFSI, Media, Energy, Manufacturing, Retail, Telco, Transportation vertical sales experience
  • Complex sales cycle management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Consensus building
  • Complex commercial agreement negotiation
  • Pipeline management
  • Communication skills
  • Strategic market assessment
  • Tactical execution
  • Passion for advanced AI systems
  • AI safety awareness

Nice to have

  • Experience with advanced AI systems

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of enterprise sales experience
  • driving adoption of emerging technologies
  • consultative, solutions-oriented sales approach
  • ANZ market
  • Experience selling into BFSI, Media, Energy, Manufacturing, Retail, Telco, Transportation verticals
  • managing complex sales cycles
  • securing strategic deals
  • understanding multifaceted technical requirements
  • crafting tailored solutions
  • navigate dynamic stakeholder ecosystems
  • building consensus
  • providing innovative solutions to disparate groups
  • negotiating highly complex, customized commercial agreements
  • exceeding revenue targets
  • fast-paced organizations
  • effectively managing an evolving pipeline and sales process
  • Excellent communication skills
  • present confidently
  • build connections across all customer levels
  • strategic, analytical approach to assessing markets
  • creative, tactical execution to capture opportunities
  • passion for and/or experience with advanced AI systems
  • ensuring frontier AI systems are developed safely