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Anthropic

Builds Claude AI models with a focus on safety

Enterprise Account Executive - Digital Native Business

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/14/2026
No salary listed
Expert
Bachelor's
Tokyo, Japan
HybridAt least 25% of the time in an office.
Sales & Account ManagementAccount Executive

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 8 years of sales experience in Japan, with a demonstrated record of winning new accounts and generating most of one's own pipeline through outbound prospecting.
  • Experience selling to digital native, internet, or high-growth technology companies and engaging technical buyers such as engineering and product leaders.
  • Experience opening greenfield territories or segments, building pipeline, and closing revenue from zero.
  • A record of exceeding revenue targets primarily through new business, managing both high-velocity sales cycles and larger strategic deals.
  • Commercial understanding of usage-based and consumption models and the ability to connect product adoption to revenue growth.
  • A strategic and analytical approach to territory and account prioritization, with persistent execution.
  • Passion for or experience with advanced AI systems, and commitment to their safe and responsible development.
  • Excellent communication skills in both Japanese and English.
  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; the field must be relevant to the role, as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
Responsibilities
  • Own and exceed revenue targets by winning new accounts across Japan's digital native companies, including internet services, gaming, e-commerce, SaaS, fintech, and media companies.
  • Build a greenfield territory from scratch by developing an account list, generating pipeline through self-sourced outbound prospecting, and creating repeatable plays for landing new accounts.
  • Run consultative sales cycles with founders, CTOs, CPOs, VPs of Engineering, and Heads of AI, positioning Claude as the foundation for AI-powered products and competitive differentiation.
  • Land new accounts and set them up for expansion, working with technical buyers and developer teams who evaluate hands-on.
  • Coordinate Product, Engineering, Applied AI, and Partnerships teams to win technical evaluations and accelerate customers' time to production.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience selling to digital native, internet, or high-growth technology companies.
  • Experience opening greenfield territories or segments.
  • Experience exceeding revenue targets through new business and managing both high-velocity cycles and larger strategic deals.
  • Commercial understanding of usage-based and consumption models.
  • Passion for or experience with advanced AI systems.

About the company

Anthropic builds the Claude family of AI models and sells them to businesses, software developers, and consumers, with research on making AI safe and understandable at the center of its work. In 2024 it introduced the Model Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI assistants to outside apps and data that OpenAI and Google adopted the next year. People use the Claude app to write and analyze files, programmers hand coding tasks to Claude Code, and companies build Claude into their own products through its API. Anthropic earns money from subscriptions, business plans, and usage-based API fees. Siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei founded Anthropic in 2021 with other former OpenAI employees, and it is based in San Francisco.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

$224.8B

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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What believers are saying

  • Sales are multiplying: Anthropic's yearly revenue pace topped $65 billion in July 2026, over sevenfold since December 2025.
  • IPO plans advanced: October 2026 reports describe investor meetings and a mid-November listing target; staff shares face lockups.
  • Lower office minimum: 627 of 646 Anthropic job posts in October 2026 require at least 25% office time.

What critics are saying

  • Job security rides on growth: Anthropic's IPO prospectus lists $518 billion in cloud and computing bills due in coming years.
  • Defense work stays off-limits: in September 2026, appeals judges voted 2-1 to let the Pentagon keep blacklisting Anthropic.
  • Growth is priced in: Anthropic's valuation reached $965 billion in May 2026, up from $380 billion in February.

What makes Anthropic unique

  • Investors don't control its board alone: Anthropic's independent Long-Term Benefit Trust elects a growing number of directors.
  • It isn't tied to one chipmaker: Claude runs on Nvidia GPUs plus custom AI chips designed by Google and Amazon.
  • It holds back its riskiest model: Claude Mythos 5.1, launched September 2026, goes only to vetted cyberdefenders and life scientists.

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Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Paid Vacation

Parental Leave

Hybrid Work Options

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Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

3%

2 year growth

-3%
Bloomberg
Oct 14th, 2026
Anthropic tells investors Q3 revenue hit $16.8B as it pushes towards IPO

Anthropic PBC told prospective investors its third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The artificial intelligence model maker is pushing ahead with plans to go public.

Tech in Asia
Oct 14th, 2026
Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs AI safety pact after $65B raise

Anthropic, a US-based AI company, opened its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore on October 14. It also signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI) on AI safety and responsible adoption. The agreement covers technical exchanges on model evaluation, testing standards, and incident response. It also includes research on AI adoption and its impact. Anthropic joined the generative AI evaluation sandbox run by the Infocomm Media Development Authority and the AI Verify Foundation in 2023, the year it launched. GovTech, Grab, and DBS use Claude in Singapore. More than 1,500 GovTech engineers and technical staff use Claude Code. Anthropic raised $65 billion in May 2026 at a $965 billion valuation.

Fortune
Oct 13th, 2026
Strict liability for AI firms gains traction, but critics see big flaws

Strict liability, which would make AI companies legally responsible for any harm their models cause, is gaining support as a way to force better safety controls. The New York Times editorialised in favour of it, and a Forecasting Research Institute survey of 157 experts, 49 superforecasters, 132 AI risk experts, and 540 members of the public rated it more effective than US federal licensing alone. The push follows reports of "rogue AI" incidents. An Anthropic agent tried to fill in State Department visa forms and sent a false murder tip to Philadelphia police. The White House has ordered frontier AI firms to disclose such incidents. Critics note that liability applies only after harm occurs, could bankrupt firms, is hard to apply to open source models, and may push AI companies to compete with their customers.

Constellation Research
Oct 13th, 2026
Anthropic acquires confidential AI startup Opaque, last valued at $300M

Anthropic will acquire Opaque, a company that specialises in confidential computing and AI. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Opaque partnered with Nvidia, Intel, Microsoft, and Google on confidential computing. It raised a $24 million series B round at a $300 million valuation, then rolled out a security framework adopted in Europe and the UAE. Recently, Opaque has been releasing open standards for sovereign AI and on-premise deployments. That fits Anthropic's growing appeal to enterprises seeking on-premise deployments, open models, and sovereign AI architectures. Opaque chief executive officer Aaron Fulkerson said the agreement "carries OPAQUE's work forward.

Associated Press
Oct 13th, 2026
AI founders and VCs cheer Trump's self-regulation push as $1T defence budget lures capital

AI founders and venture capitalists welcomed the White House's hands-off approach to regulation at San Francisco's Tech Week last week. President Donald Trump recently hosted tech leaders in Washington to sign a voluntary, 308-word AI safety pact, which he called "almost a constitution." The deal asks advanced AI labs to follow safety protocols and set up internal teams to oversee their own progress. Signatories include OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, SpaceXAI, and Nvidia. At an event hosted by Andreessen Horowitz, PitchBook's Kyle Stanford noted that US defence spending reaches $1 trillion for the first time, with $13.5 billion going to autonomous systems and AI. Critics disagree. Former OpenAI safety head David Robinson said self-regulation is no substitute for strong legislation.