Growth Account Executive, AI Native

Anthropic • $222K — $380K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in sales or account management with a strong track record of growth
  • Proven success as a strategic advisor to startups, understanding their needs
  • Experience navigating complex sales cycles with technical stakeholders
  • Exceptional presentation and communication skills for all customer levels
  • Analytical mindset paired with creative solutions for account expansion
  • Ability to maintain composure and order in dynamic environments
  • Strong passion for AI safety and responsible development

Responsibilities

  • Drive account revenue growth through strategic expansions and renewals
  • Manage the full sales cycle for upselling while ensuring retention
  • Establish and nurture trusted relationships with key startup stakeholders
  • Conduct strategic account planning including business reviews and negotiations
  • Collaborate with customers to explore new AI use cases and opportunities
  • Act as the customer voice to relay feedback and market needs to product teams
  • Develop account strategies aligned with customer business goals
  • Identify and address retention risks to maintain customer satisfaction

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship is available with support from an immigration lawyer
  • Hybrid work policy requiring 25% in-office attendance
  • Encouragement of diverse candidates to apply, fostering inclusive workplace
  • Rolling application process without a deadline
  • Commitment to representation and inclusion in AI development
Full Job Description
As a Growth Account Executive at Anthropic, you'll drive expansion and retention of our fastest-growing startup customers by helping them harness the transformative potential of safe, frontier AI. You'll leverage your consultative sales expertise to grow revenue while becoming a trusted strategic advisor, helping customers expand their AI capabilities and unlock new use cases. Working closely with GTM, product, and marketing teams, you'll identify expansion opportunities while ensuring our customers get maximum value from Anthropic's solutions. The ideal candidate will combine strong sales acumen with relationship management skills, focusing on growing accounts through strategic upsells while maintaining high retention rates. By driving expanded deployment of Anthropic's emerging products, you will help enterprises scale their AI capabilities while advancing its ethical development. Responsibilities: • Drive revenue growth through strategic account expansion and renewals • Own the full sales cycle for upsell opportunities while maintaining strong retention rates • Build and maintain trusted relationships with key stakeholders across your portfolio of high-growth startups • Lead strategic account planning including Quarterly Business Reviews, health checks, and renewal negotiations • Partner with customers to identify new use cases and opportunities to expand their AI capabilities with Anthropic • Serve as the voice of the customer by gathering feedback and conveying market needs to inform our product roadmap • Develop and execute account strategies that align Anthropic's solutions with customer business objectives • Proactively identify and mitigate retention risks while maintaining high customer satisfaction You may be a good fit if you have: • 5+ years of experience in sales or account management roles, with a proven track record of growing accounts and exceeding retention targets • Success as a strategic business advisor, deeply understanding startup needs and creating innovative solutions that align with their vision • Experience managing complex sales cycles, working with technical stakeholders, and negotiating strategic deals • Strong presentation and communication skills with ability to build relationships across all customer levels, from ICs to C-level executives • Analytical approach to understanding customer needs combined with creative solutions to drive expansion • A knack for bringing order to chaos and an enthusiastic "roll up your sleeves" mentality • Passion for emerging technologies like AI, with interest in ensuring they are developed safely and responsibly • Experience running strategic business reviews and managing executive relationships • Track record of consistently meeting or exceeding quota in fast-paced environments 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-$380,000 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.
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50 employees
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Founded
2019

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