Mid-market Account Executive, Industries

Anthropic Anthropic · AI Frontier · New York, NY +1 · Sales

This role is for a Mid-Market Account Executive focused on driving the adoption of AI solutions within key verticals. The role involves securing strategic deals, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to the Go-To-Market strategy. A key aspect is pioneering a new sales playbook where human Account Executives direct AI Agents to automate parts of the buyer's journey while maintaining human engagement. The role requires a passion for building a new sales motion and evangelizing the potential of AI to mid-market companies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Contribute to the Mid-Market 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. Own a revenue target and all aspects of the sales cycle from prospecting to close, including finding key workflows to automate and agentify
  4. Become a trusted advisor to customers, understanding their unique needs and crafting tailored AI solutions. Co-innovate with customers and sell on the product roadmap while appropriately setting expectations
  5. Collaborate extensively with cross-functional partners including Product, Customer Success, Legal, Marketing, and Applied AI to help bring new solutions to market and provide feedback to shape roadmaps
  6. Develop sales collateral, proposals, and presentations to effectively position Anthropic's AI products. Continuously refine sales tactics and share best practices

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of enterprise B2B sales experience in technology, preferably in SaaS, API solutions, or emerging technologies
  • Experience automating workflows or building automations to handle the repeatable components of a sales process
  • Proven experience exceeding revenue targets in fast-paced organizations by effectively managing an evolving pipeline and sales process
  • 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
  • A strategic, analytical approach to assessing markets combined with creative, tactical execution to capture opportunities
  • 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
  • human AEs direct AI Agents to automate key elements of the buyer’s journey
  • building a fundamentally new sales motion