# Finance & Strategy Lead, Claude Platform (API)

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $325,000-$425,000 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

## About the role

The Finance & Strategy Lead will own the financial strategy for the Claude Platform (API), designing business models and shaping pricing and packaging. This is a finance role that sits close to product, requiring experience in consumption-based and infrastructure businesses.

## Key responsibilities

- Own financial strategy for the Claude Platform (API), including pricing, packaging, and commercial terms

- Design and launch new business models for the platform and new products

- Set pricing for new product features, balancing adoption, capacity, and margin

- Partner with infrastructure and inference teams to understand cost to serve and turn efficiency gains into pricing decisions

- Work closely with product leaders on roadmap priorities and business cases

- Bring recommendations on pricing, investments, and tradeoffs to executive leadership

- Define metrics to track pricing and new business models, and build dashboards to review them

- Work with FP&A, accounting, deal desk, and revenue operations to ensure correct forecasting, billing, and reporting

- Mentor members of the Product Finance team

## Minimum qualifications

- Experience in strategic finance, product finance, or a closely related field

- Hands-on experience with consumption-based or usage-based business models

- Experience with infrastructure, cloud, or developer platform businesses

- A track record of designing and launching new pricing or business models

- Advanced financial modeling skills and comfort with SQL

- Experience partnering with product teams and presenting recommendations to executive leadership

- Clear written and verbal communication skills

- Sound judgment when data is incomplete

- Interest in AI and commitment to Anthropic's mission

## Preferred qualifications

- 10+ years of experience in strategic finance, product finance, or related fields

- Experience pricing APIs, developer tools, or cloud infrastructure services

- Familiarity with large language models, token-based pricing, and capacity planning

- Experience monetizing a new product category without clear market benchmarks

- Experience building a team or leading and mentoring senior analysts

- Background in AI, ML, or related technologies

## Logistics

- Annual Salary: $325,000-$425,000 USD

- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

- Location-based hybrid policy: 25% office time

- Visa sponsorship: Available

## Benefits

- Competitive compensation and benefits

- Optional equity donation matching

- Generous vacation and parental leave

- Flexible working hours

- Lovely office space

## Skills

### Required
- strategic finance
- product finance
- consumption-based business models
- infrastructure businesses
- financial modeling
- SQL
- communication skills
- AI

### Nice to have
- pricing APIs
- developer tools
- cloud infrastructure services
- large language models
- token-based pricing
- capacity planning
- monetizing new product categories
- team building
- mentoring senior analysts
- AI background

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