Strategic Account Executive, Startups

Base Pay Range

$360,000.00 / yr - $435,000.00 / yr

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About The Role

As a Strategic Account Executive at Anthropic, you'll partner with the most innovative AI-native companies in their hypergrowth journey, working directly with founders and leadership teams to shape the future of AI adoption. You'll own our most strategic customer relationships, leading complex commercial discussions while driving deep engagement between these pioneering companies and Anthropic's executive team.

Responsibilities

• Own and deepen relationships with founder / CEO-level executives at the fastest-growing AI companies, serving as their primary strategic partner for AI infrastructure decisions
• Lead complex, high-stakes commercial negotiations spanning multiple stakeholders, including founders, operators, and venture capital firms
• Drive strategic alignment between customer roadmaps and Anthropic's product vision, advocating for customer needs at the highest levels of our organization
• Partner closely with technical counterparts to ensure seamless execution and customer success
• Identify emerging market trends and opportunities based on a deep understanding of how leading AI companies are building and scaling
• Develop and execute account strategies that support customers through various growth stages, from early startup to category leader
• Navigate complex organizational dynamics while maintaining strong relationships across both customer and internal stakeholders

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

Strong Candidates May Have

Annual Salary

$360,000—$435,000 USD

Logistics

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.

How We're Different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We’re an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

Come Work With Us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage : Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Sales and Business Development

Industries

Research Services

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