Manager, Account Executive - Strategic Sales

Menlo Ventures; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 435,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous vacation and parental leave

Optional equity donation matching

Flexible working hours

Collaborative office space

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Sales Manager to lead a team of Strategic Account Executives in San Francisco, California. You will be responsible for driving the adoption of AI solutions across industries like Telco, Media, and Retail while ensuring team performance and revenue growth.

The ideal candidate has experience in leading strategic sales teams and a genuine interest in deploying AI responsibly. The position offers an annual compensation of $435,000—$550,000 and a hybrid work policy.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams that sell complex products.
• Track record of building relationships with enterprise customers.
• Strong coaching skills to enhance team performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Strategic Account Executives.
• Drive revenue growth through securing strategic deals.
• Engage with C-level executives to build relationships.

Skills

Strategic sales leadership

Consultative sales

Industry relationship building

AI deployment interest

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

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 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruit, coach, and retain Strategic Account Executives with deep industry and platform-selling expertise; develop leadership talent and create career paths that keep top performers growing
• Codify the use cases, proof points, reference stories, and sales motions that make wins repeatable within each industry, partnering with Marketing, Enablement, and partner teams to scale them
• Engage personally with C-level executives on priority pursuits, building business cases and value narratives and navigating complex procurement, security, and legal processes through to production deployment and expansion
• Own the organization's revenue targets and operating rhythm, instilling pipeline-generation discipline and running forecasting, deal inspection, and account planning cadences that make performance predictable and coachable across a high-volume book of business
• Partner closely with Applied AI, Solutions Architecture, and Product to design solutions, prove value quickly, and translate industry needs into product and roadmap input
• Orchestrate cross-functional and partner motions with Customer Success, Marketing, Partnerships, Legal, and cloud partners to deliver a seamless customer experience, and represent Anthropic with customers and at industry events as a visible, trusted leader

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience leading strategic sales teams that sell technical, complex products such as API-first platforms, cloud infrastructure, or data and machine learning platforms
• A track record of winning and growing enterprise customers, including building C-suite relationships, in one or more of our focus industries (telecommunications, media & entertainment, retail & consumer, industrials & manufacturing, or business services)
• Experience designing go-to-market coverage for a strategic sales team, including but not limited to account prioritization
• Operational rigor across both a high-volume pipeline and complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles, balancing velocity with deal quality and forecasting accurately in fast-changing environments
• Credibility with technical buyers and builders — CIOs, CTOs, CDOs — and experience pairing effectively with solutions architects and applied AI teams
• Strong coaching skills that raise team performance through deal coaching and account strategy, combined with personal effectiveness alongside executives on high-priority opportunities
• A genuine interest in deploying AI responsibly and motivation to advance Anthropic's mission of building safe, beneficial AI

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience bringing generative AI or LLM-based products, or other emerging platform technologies, to enterprises in telco, media, or retail
• Established executive relationships and a strategic-deal track record within the Telco, Media, or Retail verticals
• Experience selling with and through cloud and ecosystem partners such as AWS, Google Cloud, and global systems integrators
• Familiarity with consumption- or usage-based commercial models and value-based pricing conversations

Annual Compensation

$435,000—$550,000 USD

Logistics

• 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. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

Education and Experience

• 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

Benefits

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.