Scaled Enterprise Account Executive, Industries

Anthropic Anthropic · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Sales

This role is for a Scaled Enterprise Account Executive at Anthropic, focused on bringing frontier AI to enterprise accounts. The individual will own a book of enterprise accounts, drive revenue outcomes, generate pipeline through outbound prospecting, and manage the full sales cycle from first conversation to close. The role requires developing a point of view on how Claude creates value, building relationships with stakeholders, and negotiating commercial agreements. The candidate will partner with Product, Applied AI, and Engineering to provide feedback and contribute to building the sales playbook. The ideal candidate has 3-5+ years of enterprise sales experience, a hunter mindset, experience in hypergrowth companies, and a background selling platform, API, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, or AI/ML. Genuine interest in AI and alignment with Anthropic's mission are important.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own all revenue outcomes for a book of enterprise accounts, driving new logo acquisition and early expansion across multiple use cases
  2. Generate the majority of your own pipeline through outbound, creative prospecting, and proactive multithreading into enterprise accounts that have not yet engaged with Anthropic
  3. Run a high-velocity sales cycle from first meeting through close, qualifying quickly, advancing rigorously, and knowing when to walk
  4. Develop a clear point of view on where Claude creates value in each account and bring that POV to technical and business stakeholders alike
  5. Build relationships with directors, VPs, and executive sponsors within your enterprise accounts, earning the right to expand by delivering early wins

Skills

Required

  • 3-5+ years selling into enterprise accounts as a full-cycle individual contributor carrying a bag
  • Experience selling at a hypergrowth company
  • A hunter mindset
  • Experience running enterprise sales cycles involving technical evaluations, security review, and procurement
  • Comfort engaging both technical and business buyers at the director and VP level
  • Background selling platform, API, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, or AI/ML into enterprise
  • Strong commercial instincts
  • Genuine interest in AI

Nice to have

  • Experience at a hypergrowth enterprise infrastructure or developer tools company in its scaling years
  • Track record as one of the early AEs on a new team, segment, or product
  • Background in developer tools, API, or AI/ML sales into technical buyers

What the JD emphasized

  • track record of consistently exceeding quota
  • Experience selling at a hypergrowth company, where the playbook was still being written and you helped write it
  • A hunter mindset and demonstrated success generating your own enterprise pipeline and breaking into new enterprise accounts
  • Experience running enterprise sales cycles involving technical evaluations, security review, and procurement
  • Background selling platform, API, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, or AI/ML into enterprise
  • Track record as one of the early AEs on a new team, segment, or product where you helped build the motion rather than inherit it
  • Background in developer tools, API, or AI/ML sales into technical buyers