Anthropic
Growth Account Executive, AI Native
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY. Posted 23 months ago
The role
You will drive expansion and retention for startup customers by helping them use safe, frontier AI. You will act as a strategic advisor to grow revenue and identify new use cases through consultative sales.
What you will do
- Drive revenue growth through strategic account expansion and renewals
- Own the full sales cycle for upsell opportunities while maintaining strong retention rates
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with key stakeholders across a portfolio of high-growth startups
- Lead strategic account planning including Quarterly Business Reviews, health checks, and renewal negotiations
- Partner with customers to identify new use cases and opportunities to expand AI capabilities
- Serve as the voice of the customer by conveying market needs to inform the product roadmap
- Develop and execute account strategies that align solutions with customer business objectives
- Proactively identify and mitigate retention risks
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in sales or account management roles
- Proven track record of growing accounts and exceeding retention targets
- Experience managing complex sales cycles
- Experience working with technical stakeholders
- Experience negotiating strategic deals
- Strong presentation and communication skills
- Ability to build relationships from ICs to C-level executives
- Analytical approach to understanding customer needs
- Track record of consistently meeting or exceeding quota in fast-paced environments
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Field of study relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Nice to have
- Success as a strategic business advisor
- Deep understanding of startup needs
- Ability to bring order to chaos
- Enthusiastic roll up your sleeves mentality
- Passion for emerging technologies like AI
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Office space
Before you apply
- We do sponsor visas
About the company
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.