About the role

As a Sales Manager at Anthropic, you'll lead a team of Strategic Account Executives driving the adoption of safe, frontier AI by securing strategic deals with top enterprises in the Telco, Media, and Retail verticals. You'll leverage your leadership and consultative sales expertise to propel revenue growth while developing a high-performing team of AEs. Working closely with Applied AI Engineering and Product teams, you'll help customers embed and deploy AI while uncovering its full range of capabilities. In collaboration with GTM 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 people, identifying market opportunities, and executing strategies to capture them. By leading the deployment of Anthropic's emerging products, you will help enterprises obtain new capabilities while also advancing the ethical development of AI.
Responsibilities:

• Build and lead a high-performing team of Strategic AEs - coaching, mentoring, and developing reps to consistently exceed revenue targets
• Define and execute sales strategies, including territory planning, pipeline management, and accurate forecasting with strong CRM discipline
• Partner with Applied AI Engineering to ensure your team can lead credible technical conversations and deliver optimized solutions pre- and post-sale
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Enablement, Product, and GTM leadership to accelerate AE ramp, refine sales playbooks, and inform product direction through customer feedback
• Identify and pursue new market opportunities and use cases for Anthropic's AI solutions, expanding the team's footprint within the vertical

You may be a good fit if you:

• 15+ years in software/platform sales with 7+ in leadership, including 3+ years leading teams selling into F1000 accounts; experience closing 7-figure deals
• Proven track record building and scaling high-performing AE teams - coaching, developing reps, and establishing sales processes and methodologies in fast-growth environments
• Strong technical acumen with the ability to understand complex AI solutions and enable teams to lead credible technical conversations alongside engineering partners
• Operational rigor in pipeline management, forecasting, and navigating complex enterprise sales cycles with multiple stakeholders
• Passion for AI technology and its safe, responsible development, with a strategic eye for new market opportunities and tactical excellence in execution

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:

$435,000-$550,000 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.

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