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    Account Executive, Startups

    Anthropic

    🇺🇸 San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
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    Work Type

    On-site

    Vertical

    Financial

    Source

    greenhouse

    About this role

    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 Startups Account Executive at Anthropic, you’ll drive adoption of safe, frontier AI by securing strategic deals with some of the fastest growing startups in the world. 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 for Anthropic. Find your way to the right people at prospective customers, educate them about LLMs, and help them succeed with Anthropic. You’ll own the full sales cycle, from first outbound to launch
    • Design and execute innovative sales strategies to meet and exceed revenue quotas. Analyze market landscapes, trends, and dynamics to translate high-level plans into targeted sales

    Selling Motion

    Sales Cycle

    Enterprise

    6–18 month cycles, complex multi-stakeholder deals

    Prospecting

    Channel / Partner

    Sell through partners, resellers, or alliances

    Buyer Persona

    C-Suite

    Selling to executive decision-makers

    Requirements at a Glance

    Bachelor's Degree·Required

    Typical Day — Account Executive

    Stakeholder meetings3–5/week
    Executive presentations2–3/week
    Business cases & RFPs1–2/week
    Forecast & pipeline2×/week
    Champion coachingDaily

    Estimates based on role type and selling motion — actual may vary by company.

    Financial Services — Interview Intel

    Typical Sales Cycle

    3–6 months (Retail) · 6–18 months (Institutional)

    Common Buyer Objections

    • "Regulatory concerns — need compliance approval"
    • "We already have a vendor for this"
    • "Need to see 3-year track record"
    • "Committee-based decision — multiple approvers"

    Key Industry Metrics

    AUM (Assets Under Management)Risk-Adjusted ReturnsCompliance Pass RateClient Retention RateRevenue Per Advisor

    Hot Topics to Reference

    • • AI in fraud detection and compliance
    • • Open banking APIs
    • • ESG investing mandate shifts
    • • Embedded finance partnerships

    Use these insights to speak the buyer's language in interviews.

    Tags

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    Walk me through your discovery process.

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    How do you handle a prospect who goes silent mid-deal?

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    Tell me about your largest closed deal and the sales cycle.

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    How do you build business cases for stakeholders?

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    Describe a deal you lost and what you learned.

    Template question
    Research Anthropic's product, recent news, and key competitors
    Review relevant certifications and licensing requirements
    Research typical OTE splits for this role level and negotiate accordingly
    Review the job description and map your experience to each requirement
    Role Insights

    Account Executives are the revenue engine of any sales organization — this role will require strong pipeline management and closing skills.

    Licensing requirements (Series 7, 63, etc.) may be needed or beneficial.

    The US market offers the highest OTE potential globally for sales professionals, with a highly competitive talent landscape.

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