Description
As a Startup Account Executive at Anthropic, you'll drive adoption of safe, frontier AI by securing strategic deals with some of the fastest growing startups in the world.
You'll leverage your consultative sales expertise to propel revenue growth while becoming a trusted partner to customers, helping them embed and deploy AI while uncovering its full range of capabilities.
In collaboration with GTM, product, and marketing teams, you'll continuously refine our value proposition, sales methodology, and market positioning to ensure differentiated value across the landscape.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for developing new market segments, pinpointing high-potential opportunities, and executing strategies to capture them.
By driving deployment of Anthropic's emerging products, you will help enterprises obtain new capabilities while also advancing the ethical development of AI.
Responsibilities:
- Win new business and drive revenue for Anthropic.
- Design and execute innovative sales strategies to meet and exceed revenue quotas.
- Spearhead market expansion by pinpointing new customer segments and use cases.
- Inform product roadmaps and features by gathering customer feedback and conveying market needs.
- Continuously refine the sales methodology by incorporating learnings into playbooks, templates, and best practices.
You may be a good fit if you have:
- 2-3 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.
- Analytical approach to understanding customer needs combined with creative follow-up to advance opportunities.
- Passion for emerging technologies like AI, with interest in ensuring they are developed safely and responsibly.
- 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.
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ('OTE') range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary: $222,800-$290,000 USD