Strategic Account Executive, Tech

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

This role is for a Strategic Account Executive at Anthropic, focused on driving the adoption of AI by securing strategic deals with top enterprises. The role involves consultative sales, revenue growth, and collaborating with internal teams to refine value propositions and market positioning. While the company builds AI, this specific role is in sales and focuses on selling the company's AI products to enterprises, rather than building or directly working with the AI models themselves.

What you'd actually do

  1. Win new business and drive revenue for Anthropic. 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

  • enterprise sales experience
  • consultative sales approach
  • solutions-oriented sales approach
  • managing complex sales cycles
  • securing strategic deals
  • understanding multifaceted technical requirements
  • crafting tailored solutions
  • navigating dynamic stakeholder ecosystems
  • building consensus
  • providing innovative solutions
  • negotiating complex commercial agreements
  • exceeding revenue targets
  • managing an evolving pipeline
  • managing an evolving sales process
  • excellent communication skills
  • presenting confidently
  • building connections across all customer levels
  • strategic approach to assessing markets
  • analytical approach to assessing markets
  • creative execution
  • tactical execution
  • experience with advanced AI systems
  • passion for safe AI development

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
  • A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
  • Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
  • A knack for bringing order to chaos
  • enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves'' mentality
  • true team player

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of enterprise sales experience driving adoption of emerging technologies with a consultative, solutions-oriented sales approach
  • A track record of managing complex sales cycles and securing strategic deals by understanding multifaceted technical requirements and crafting tailored solutions
  • Proven experience exceeding revenue targets in fast-paced organizations by effectively managing an evolving pipeline and sales process
  • A passion for and/or experience with advanced AI systems. You feel strongly about ensuring frontier AI systems are developed safely