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Anthropic

Builds Claude AI models with a focus on safety

Strategic Pursuits Lead - Revops

Full-TimePosted on 9/8/2026
$300k - $400k/yr+ Target sales commissions/bonuses
Expert
Bachelor's
San Francisco, CA, USA+1 moreMore locations: New York, NY, USA
HybridStaff are expected to work from an office at least 25% of the time.
Sales & Account ManagementAccount Executive
H1B Sponsorship Available

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 15 years of progressive experience in enterprise technology, including at least 7 years personally leading strategic deals or major account pursuits.
  • A proven track record of closing multiple $50M–$100M+ enterprise technology deals with Fortune 100 companies as the primary deal owner.
  • Deep expertise in complex B2B sales cycles involving C-suite engagement, technical validation, and cross-functional coordination.
  • Demonstrated ability to architect sophisticated solutions that address complex enterprise requirements.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise AI and machine learning deployment models, cloud infrastructure, and API integration patterns.
  • Experience navigating Fortune 500 procurement, legal, security, and compliance processes.
  • A track record of winning in highly competitive, must-win pursuit scenarios.
  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience; a field relevant to the role may be demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
Responsibilities
  • Lead end-to-end orchestration of the company's most strategic and complex enterprise pursuits, typically with $XXXM+ in potential lifetime value.
  • Own the C-suite relationships and discussions on each pursuit in full partnership with the account team and field leadership that own the account.
  • Design and execute sophisticated account strategies that position Claude as mission-critical infrastructure for enterprise transformation.
  • Navigate intricate multi-stakeholder decision processes across technical, business, legal, security, and procurement functions.
  • Partner with product and research teams to shape custom solutions and influence roadmap priorities for strategic accounts.
  • Coordinate cross-functional pursuit resources, including sales, partnerships, technical specialists, and executive sponsors.
  • Develop innovative commercial structures, deployment models, and partnership frameworks for complex strategic engagements.
  • Drive competitive differentiation in head-to-head pursuits against established technology incumbents.
  • Codify successful approaches into reusable playbooks and constructs for the broader commercial organization, and plan each pursuit's handback so the account team is prepared to deliver what was signed.
  • Represent the company in high-stakes negotiations and executive forums with global business leaders.

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
  • Company Equity

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-3%

1 year growth

3%

2 year growth

-3%
Tech in Asia
Oct 17th, 2026
Anthropic leases Nova Scotia data center capacity in first Canada deal, tied to $7.3B EverWind project

Anthropic has signed a lease with EverWind for data center capacity at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia. It is the company's first such agreement in Canada, said Jacob Glick, Anthropic's Canada public policy head. EverWind, a Canadian developer of green energy projects, plans to invest more than C$10 billion ($7.05 billion) in the data center campus and related wind power projects. It has promoted the Cape Breton port area as a future clean fuel hub. Glick said Anthropic would protect ratepayers and water resources while ensuring local communities benefit.

TechCrunch
Oct 16th, 2026
Replit drops Anthropic for OpenAI over cost and performance, CEO says

Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, chief executive officer and co-founder Amjad Masad said Thursday at TechCrunch Disrupt. He cited cost, partnership and performance. "I think ChatGPT is better now," Masad said, adding that Replit's internal and public benchmarks show Sol and Astra build vibe-coded applications from scratch more effectively. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August. An unnamed person familiar with the matter said the Anthropic partnership was still in place. A September blog post cited Anthropic's Claude models as running in Replit Agent's production environment. Masad said enterprise contracts made up about 15% of revenue this year, up from 2% last year. More than 50% of revenue is B2B.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 16th, 2026
Anthropic gets top junk credit rating from KBRA ahead of $35B chip financing

Anthropic received a double B plus issuer rating from Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) in June, the highest speculative-grade score and one notch below investment grade. The rating came before a $35bn chip financing led by Apollo, according to documents seen by the FT. Investment grade would lower the AI startup's borrowing costs and open it to investors such as pension funds and life insurers. Anthropic expects to spend more than $500bn on computing and infrastructure over the next decade. KBRA used a "risk score" because Anthropic withheld metrics including free cash flow. About $4.4bn of junior debt in the package carries Anthropic's credit risk and was sold at a yield of about 8.5%. Banks are now assembling a $60bn deal for more custom AI chips.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 15th, 2026
Claude's AI portfolio puts 14.5% in EMCOR as data centre demand lifts revenue 19.7%

Claude's AI stock portfolio holds 14.5% of its assets in EMCOR Group (NYSE:EME), its largest position. The portfolio is up 28.4% since late November 2025, against 15.3% for the S&P 500, according to the investing app Rallies. EMCOR installs power systems, backup generators, and cooling networks for data centres. Revenue rose 19.7% in the first quarter of 2026, with organic growth of 16.8%. The stock trades at a forward P/E of 24, against 19.1 for the S&P 500. Analysts expect earnings per share to rise 27% in 2026 and about 12% in 2027. Risks include order pauses, cost overruns, and slowing growth. The dividend yield is just 0.18%.

CNBC
Oct 15th, 2026
Cramer: AI stock storm, Fed rate hikes and Iran war risk test tech holders, with 12% in cash

CNBC's Jim Cramer says AI and data center stocks are under panic selling, as investors fear there is not enough money to fund the build-out. Anthropic's earnings fell short of expectations, though he noted its $100 billion annualised run-rate is hardly disappointing. Debt worries at thinly capitalised companies such as CoreWeave added to the fear. Nvidia chief executive officer Jensen Huang said on Thursday that CoreWeave is fine and its cost of capital is falling, which lifted tech stocks for the day. New Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh may push short-term rates to 5.5% or 6% to bring inflation to 2%. They now stand at 3.75% to 4% after last month's hike, the first in three years. Cramer's investing club holds 12% in cash. It took profits in Cardinal Health, bought more Bank of New York, and favours high-quality stocks with strong balance sheets.

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