Mega Account Executive, Meta

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Strategic Account Executive to drive the adoption of frontier AI by securing strategic deals with leading digital native enterprises and guiding customers through deployment and integration of AI capabilities.

You will collaborate with GTM, product, and marketing teams to refine our value proposition, discover new opportunities, and ensure differentiated value across the enterprise landscape.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise sales experience closing complex deals.
• Experience selling emerging technologies to large digital native companies.
• Executive presence with ability to engage C-suite and board-level stakeholders.
• Proven ability to build multi-threaded relationships across large organizations.
• Consultative sales approach focused on customer challenges.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, and partnerships.
• Resourceful and capable of navigating ambiguity to find solutions.
• High level of organization and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Win new business and drive revenue within strategic digital native accounts from prospecting to close.
• Navigate complex organizational structures and build consensus among diverse stakeholder groups.
• Design and execute innovative sales strategies to meet and exceed revenue quotas and translate plans into activities.
• Spearhead expansion by identifying new use cases and collaborating cross-functionally to differentiate offerings.
• Own sophisticated deal cycles involving multiple stakeholders, evaluations, and procurement processes.
• Build and maintain accurate pipeline forecasting with high forecast accuracy.
• Inform product roadmaps by gathering customer feedback and market needs.
• Continuously refine the sales methodology with playbooks and templates.

Skills

Enterprise sales

Closing complex deals

C-suite engagement

Relationship building

Consultative selling

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Attention to detail

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 Strategic Account Executive at Anthropic, you'll drive the adoption of safe, frontier AI by securing strategic deals with top digital native enterprises, unlocking new value streams throughout their business. You'll leverage your consultative sales expertise to propel revenue growth while becoming a trusted partner to customers, helping them embed and deploy AI while uncovering its full range of capabilities. In collaboration with GTM, product, 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 new market segments, pinpointing high-potential opportunities, and executing strategies to capture them. By driving deployment of Anthropic's emerging products, you will help enterprises obtain new capabilities while also advancing the ethical development of AI.

Responsibilities:

• Win new business and drive revenue within a book of strategic digital native accounts. Own the full sales cycle from prospecting to close, identifying and developing new opportunities across multiple business units and use cases
• Navigate complex organizational structures and build consensus among diverse stakeholder groups. Develop multi-threaded relationships from individual contributors to C-suite executives
• Design and execute innovative sales strategies to meet and exceed revenue quotas. Analyze your account's landscape, trends, and dynamics to translate high-level plans into targeted sales activities and campaigns
• Spearhead expansion by pinpointing new use cases and business units. Collaborate cross-functionally to differentiate our offerings and sustain a competitive edge within your strategic account
• Own sophisticated deal cycles involving multiple stakeholders, technical evaluations, and complex procurement processes. Demonstrate resourcefulness when faced with challenges that defy easy solution
• Build and maintain accurate pipeline forecasting while ensuring high forecast accuracy and consistency. Identify robust set of business drivers behind all opportunities
• Inform product roadmaps and features by gathering customer feedback and conveying market needs. Provide insights that strengthen our value proposition and enhance the customer experience
• Continuously refine the sales methodology by incorporating learnings into playbooks, templates, and best practices. Identify process improvements that optimize sales productivity and consistency

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 10+ years of enterprise sales experience with a proven track record of closing complex deals with strategic accounts. Experience managing sophisticated sales cycles and securing deals with extended timelines and multiple stakeholders
• Experience selling emerging technologies or complex solutions to large digital native companies. Ability to navigate technical evaluations and translate complex capabilities into business value
• A strong executive presence with demonstrated ability to engage C-suite executives and senior stakeholders. Experience presenting to boards and aligning solutions with strategic business initiatives
• Exceptional relationship building skills with proven ability to develop multi-threaded relationships across large organizations. Experience building consensus among diverse stakeholder groups
• A consultative sales approach with focus on understanding customer business challenges and crafting tailored solutions. Ability to position yourself as a strategic advisor rather than a vendor
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with an ability to mobilize internal resources including product, engineering, and partnership teams. Experience coordinating complex deals that require multiple internal stakeholders
• Resourcefulness and problem-solving abilities when faced with complex challenges. Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguous situations and find creative solutions
• A high level of organization and attention to det