Growth Account Executive

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 222,800 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Anthropic is looking for a Growth Account Executive to drive expansion and retention for its startup customers. In this role, you will use your sales expertise to grow revenue and become a trusted advisor, helping customers unlock new AI capabilities. You will work closely with various teams to identify expansion opportunities while ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of sales experience and a proven track record in account management. The role offers a competitive salary range of $222,800 - $290,000 USD and a hybrid working policy.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in sales or account management roles.
• Proven track record of growing accounts and exceeding retention targets.
• Experience managing complex sales cycles and negotiating strategic deals.

Responsibilities

• Drive revenue growth through strategic account expansion and renewals.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with key stakeholders.
• Partner with customers to identify new use cases for AI.

Skills

Sales expertise

Relationship management

Presentation skills

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

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 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.

$222,800 - $290,000 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 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.