BDR Enablement Lead

Anthropic$190K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in enablement or successful BDR/BDR manager role
  • Passion for mentoring early-career professionals
  • Experience redesigning prospecting processes with AI integration
  • Hands-on with prospecting tools and workflow creation
  • Ability to teach and model essential sales fundamentals
  • Comfortable in fast-paced environments, building programs from scratch
  • Curiosity about AI applications in sales and tech credibility

Responsibilities

  • Own the onboarding curriculum for BDRs to quickly lead them to their first booked meeting
  • Enable BDRs with AI-native prospecting workflows to enhance productivity
  • Develop pipeline generation playbooks tailored to different segments and personas
  • Conduct ongoing skill development sessions on sales fundamentals
  • Certify BDRs on product knowledge and messaging
  • Identify skill gaps and create focused training interventions
  • Establish coaching infrastructure for continual feedback on performance
  • Measure the impact of enablement on ramp-up time and pipeline contributions

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Encouragement for applicants from diverse backgrounds
  • Hybrid work policy with some in-office requirements
  • Support for professional development and mentorship
  • Focus on building a socially responsible AI-driven workforce
Full Job Description
About the role

We're looking for a BDR Enablement Lead to own the curriculum and craft development of Anthropic's business development organization.

Our BDRs are the front door to the pipeline and, for many of them, this is the first serious sales role of their career. What they learn here shapes how they sell for the next decade. This role owns that formation: the onboarding curriculum, sales foundations, the ongoing skill development, and the pipeline generation playbooks that turn effort into meetings.

It is also a role with an unusual opportunity. Anthropic's BDRs should be the most AI-native prospecting team in the industry. You will build the workflows that make that true - using plugins, account research skills, and agentic tooling to change what a BDR can accomplish in a day. Doing this well requires someone who is genuinely excited about the craft of prospecting and about rebuilding it around what AI now makes possible.
Key responsibilities
  • Own the BDR onboarding curriculum, taking new hires from day one to first meeting booked as quickly as we responsibly can
  • Enable BDRs on AI-native prospecting workflows, including plugins, account research skills, and agentic tooling that meaningfully change BDR productivity
  • Develop and maintain pipeline generation playbooks across segments, personas, and motions
  • Run ongoing skill development on sales fundamentals: cold calling, written outreach, objection handling, discovery, and qualification
  • Certify BDRs on our products, our qualification criteria, and our messaging
  • Partner with BDR leadership to identify where skill gaps are constraining pipeline, and build focused interventions
  • Build the coaching and call-review infrastructure that gives BDRs specific, frequent feedback
  • Measure enablement impact on ramp time, activity quality, meeting conversion, and pipeline contribution
  • Create a clear development path from BDR into the next role, in partnership with sales leadership
Minimum qualifications
  • Experience in Enablement, including time as a high-performing BDR or BDR manager
  • Have excelled in the role you are now enabling, and are passionate about mentorship and early-career development
  • Are excited about rebuilding the prospecting motion around AI rather than bolting AI onto the old one
  • Are hands-on with prospecting tooling and willing to build workflows yourself rather than specifying them for someone else
  • Can teach the unglamorous fundamentals with energy, and can model them on a live call
  • Thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and enjoy building from 0 to 1
  • Care about the person as much as the number, and can hold both
  • Are technically curious about AI and credible talking about our products with a technical audience
Preferred qualifications
  • Have 5+ years of experience in Enablement, including time as a high-performing BDR or BDR manager
  • Hand-on experience with Claude Cowork, Claude Code, and other Claude surfaces
  • Experience collaborating across global and cross-functional teams
  • Experience building 0-1 onboarding programs and discovery frameworks
  • Experience designing or operating a BDR-to-AE promotion path
  • Hands-on experience building prospecting automations, agents, or internal tooling
  • Experience enabling BDRs across multiple segments or regions
  • A track record connecting BDR enablement to measurable pipeline outcomes


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:

$190,000-$190,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on developing AI systems that are safe, reliable, and trustworthy. The company was founded in 2019 by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher and winner of the Turing Award. Anthropic's research is focused on developing AI systems that can learn from small amounts of data, reason about complex systems, and interact with humans in a natural way. The company is based in New York City and has a team of experienced AI researchers and engineers.
Learn more about Anthropic
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50 employees
Industry
Founded
2019

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