On-site
SaaS
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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 Mid-Market Account Executive on Anthropic's Industries team, you'll drive the adoption of safe, frontier AI by securing strategic deals with mid-market companies in key verticals, unlocking new value streams throughout their business. You'll leverage your consultative sales expertise and technical acumen 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, Engineering, and cross-functional teams, you'll continuously refine our value proposition, sales methodology, and market positioning to ensure differentiated value across the landscape.
You will be contributing to the GTM strategy for our Industries team, focusing on sector-specific solutions and strategies within key verticals. In addition, the Mid-Market team is pioneering a new scaled sales playbook, where human AEs direct AI Agents to automate key elements of the buyer’s journey, while maintaining human engagement with prospects in the elements of a sales process that can’t be automated.
You should be passionate about building a fundamentally new sales motion, by experimenting with new programs and workflows, and ultimately evangelizing the potential of Transformative AI to mid-market companies across verticals.
Responsibilities:
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Selling Motion
Sales Cycle
Mid-Market
1–6 month cycles, moderate deal complexity
Prospecting
Channel / Partner
Sell through partners, resellers, or alliances
Buyer Persona
C-Suite
Selling to executive decision-makers
Territory
Vertical-Specific
Focused on a single industry vertical
Requirements at a Glance
Typical Day — Account Executive
Estimates based on role type and selling motion — actual may vary by company.
SaaS — Interview Intel
Typical Sales Cycle
30–90 days (SMB) · 3–9 months (Mid-Market) · 6–18 months (Enterprise)
Common Buyer Objections
- "We're locked into a contract with [competitor]"
- "We built something in-house already"
- "We don't have budget until next quarter"
- "Our team won't adopt another tool"
Key Industry Metrics
Hot Topics to Reference
- • AI-native product disruption
- • PLG vs sales-led motion debate
- • Vertical SaaS consolidation
- • Usage-based pricing models
Use these insights to speak the buyer's language in interviews.
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Walk me through your discovery process.
Template questionHow do you handle a prospect who goes silent mid-deal?
Template questionTell me about your largest closed deal and the sales cycle.
Template questionHow do you build business cases for stakeholders?
Template questionDescribe a deal you lost and what you learned.
Template questionThis Account Executive position at Anthropic involves managing the full sales cycle from prospecting through close.
SaaS sales roles typically involve consultative selling with longer deal cycles.
The US market offers the highest OTE potential globally for sales professionals, with a highly competitive talent landscape.
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