Finance & Strategy Lead, Claude Platform (API)

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