Recruiter, Applied AI San Francisco, CA

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic Limited in San Francisco seeks a strategic Go-To-Market Recruiter specializing in Applied AI to join our GTM recruiting organization. You’ll own end-to-end recruitment for Applied AI roles, including Solutions Architects and Pre-Sales Engineers, partnering with leadership to shape hiring strategies.

You’ll drive sophisticated sourcing, build pipelines with AI/ML expertise, and deliver high-touch candidate experiences while aligning with GTM objectives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical or technical sales recruiting experience.
• Experience recruiting for pre-sales/solutions engineering roles in the AI/ML space.
• Demonstrated success in GTM recruiting during hypergrowth periods.
• Technical background or track record recruiting for highly specialized technical positions.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruiting for Applied AI team roles including Solutions Architects and Pre-Sales Engineers.
• Partner with Applied AI leadership and GTM recruiting to develop hiring strategies.
• Execute sophisticated sourcing to find candidates with deep technical depth and business acumen.
• Create exceptional candidate experiences that reflect Anthropic's mission.
• Build pipelines with expertise in LLMs, cloud architecture, and enterprise software integration.
• Share best practices and market insights with GTM recruiting colleagues.
• Leverage AI tools to enhance recruiting efficiency while maintaining high-touch engagement.
• Provide data-driven insights on compensation trends and talent availability in Applied AI.

Skills

Technical recruiting

Enterprise SaaS knowledge

AI/ML recruiting

Sourcing strategies

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

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

Anthropic is seeking a strategic Go-To-Market Recruiter specializing in Applied AI to join our GTM recruiting organization. In this role, you’ll focus specifically on building and scaling our Applied AI team - the Pre-Sales architects and technical advisors who help large enterprises successfully integrate and deploy Claude. Working within our broader GTM recruiting team, you’ll drive full-cycle recruiting for these critical customer-facing technical roles that bridge our cutting-edge AI technology with real-world business applications.

This specialized role requires deep technical recruiting expertise combined with a strong understanding of enterprise SaaS and AI landscapes. You’ll collaborate closely with GTM recruiting colleagues while developing targeted strategies for the unique talent needs of our Applied AI organization. You’ll help shape how enterprises work with AI systems by building teams that directly influence the safe and beneficial deployment of Claude across industries.

Key responsibilities

Lead end-to-end recruiting for Applied AI team roles, including Solutions Architects, Pre-Sales Engineers, front-line managers and other customer-facing technical positions

Partner with Applied AI leadership and GTM recruiting colleagues to develop comprehensive hiring strategies that align with overall GTM objectives

Execute sophisticated sourcing strategies to identify candidates with rare combinations of technical depth, customer empathy, and business acumen

Create exceptional candidate experiences that showcase Anthropic's mission and the unique opportunity to shape enterprise AI adoption

Build pipelines of talent with expertise in LLMs, cloud architecture, enterprise software integration, and technical consulting

Collaborate with GTM recruiting team members to share best practices, market insights, and cross-functional candidate leads

Leverage Claude and other AI tools to enhance recruiting efficiency while maintaining high-touch, personalized engagement

Provide data-driven insights on compensation trends and talent availability specific to the Applied AI market

• Excel at recruiting for customer-facing technical roles that require both deep technical knowledge and exceptional communication skills

Understand the technical requirements of roles working with LLMs, APIs, cloud architectures, and enterprise system integration

Thrive in collaborative environments, working seamlessly with GTM recruiting colleagues while managing specialized searches

Can effectively assess candidates' abilities to translate complex technical concepts for diverse stakeholders

Have a track record of building trusted advisor relationships with technical hiring managers

Are passionate about using AI to transform recruiting practices while maintaining a human-centered approach

Preferred qualifications

Have 5+ years of technical or technical sales recruiting experience, ideally within GTM organizations at enterprise software or AI/ML companies

Direct experience recruiting for pre-sales/solutions engineering roles in the AI/ML space

Demonstrated success working within GTM recruiting organizations during periods of hypergrowth

Expertise in developing specialized recruiting practices within broader team structures

Familiarity with the challenges of deploying AI systems in enterprise environments

Experience collaborating across recruiting teams to share resources and best practices

A technical background or successful track record recruiting for highly specialized technical positions

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.

$175,000 - $240,000 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.

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.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

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.

Why Anthropic?

Why do you want to work at Anthropic? (We value this response highly - great answers are often 200-400 words.)

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