Full-Time

Sales Development Manager

Enterprise

Updated on 5/19/2026

Anthropic

Anthropic

5,001-10,000 employees

Develops reliable, interpretable AI systems

No salary listed

H1B Sponsorship Available

San Francisco, CA, USA + 1 more

More locations: New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

Must be in office at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more time in offices.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Claude
Hubspot
Salesforce
Requirements
  • 5+ years of experience managing BDR/SDR or New Business AE teams, with significant experience in enterprise-focused organizations
  • Proven track record of building teams that successfully prospect into complex enterprise organizations
  • Experience with account-based marketing/selling strategies and tools
  • Strong analytical skills with experience developing sophisticated prospecting systems
  • Experience with Claude, Claude Code, Salesforce, Apollo, AI Prospecting Tools, HubSpot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and other enterprise sales tools
  • Demonstrated ability to coach reps on navigating complex organizational structures and multi-stakeholder deals
  • Excellent communication skills with ability to engage at executive level
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
Responsibilities
  • Build, lead, and scale a team of 6-10 BDRs focused on Enterprise segments
  • Drive strategic pipeline generation through account-based prospecting and targeted outbound campaigns to G2000 accounts
  • Partner with Enterprise AEs to develop account plans, coordinate multi-threaded outreach, and ensure quality opportunity handoffs
  • Establish and track KPIs focused on opportunity quality, deal size, and strategic account penetration
  • Create comprehensive training programs on enterprise prospecting, stakeholder mapping, and complex qualification
  • Develop deep understanding of enterprise buying processes and coach team on navigating procurement, legal, and security requirements
  • Own Pipeline Reviews with sales leadership covering enterprise pipeline health, account penetration, and competitive positioning
  • Build strong relationships with cross-functional leaders and partners including Sales, RevOps, Strategy, and Marketing
  • Coach and mentor BDRs on strategic prospecting, executive engagement, and career development toward enterprise AE roles
Desired Qualifications
  • Personal closing experience strongly preferred (former AE, Account Manager, or hybrid IC/management role)
  • Experience with API-first, consumption-based, or platform business models preferred
  • Experience managing teams prospecting to Fortune 500 or Global 2000 accounts
  • Background in AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, or developer platforms
  • Track record of developing BDRs who successfully transition to enterprise AE roles
  • Experience building enterprise prospecting playbooks from scratch
  • Familiarity with enterprise procurement, security reviews, and legal processes

Anthropic focuses on AI research to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Its main product, Claude, is an AI assistant designed to handle tasks at any scale for clients across industries, delivered through deployment and licensing along with specialized AI R&D services. Claude works by combining natural language processing, human feedback, reinforcement learning, and interpretability techniques to produce a capable, controllable AI assistant that can assist with a wide range of tasks. The company differentiates itself from competitors by prioritizing safety, transparency, and controllability—emphasizing reliability, interpretability of model behavior, and user-controlled steerability in its AI systems. Anthropic’s goal is to make AI systems that people can trust and efficiently use to improve operations and decision-making across sectors.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$107.3B

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Smarsh, Cyera, and ReliaQuest integrations validate enterprise demand for Claude governance.
  • Over 155 listed customers support broader partner-led expansion across regulated industries.
  • The SpaceX compute deal gives Anthropic massive capacity for training and inference scale.

What critics are saying

  • OpenAI and Google attack Claude’s coding and reasoning advantage with faster releases.
  • The $45 billion SpaceX compute commitment locks Anthropic into enormous fixed infrastructure costs.
  • Third-party compliance wrappers commoditize Claude and shift control to security platforms.

What makes Anthropic unique

  • Anthropic built Claude around Constitutional AI and human-aligned safety training.
  • Its four research teams center interpretability, alignment, societal impacts, and frontier red teaming.
  • Claude serves enterprise workflows with long-context reasoning, cautious outputs, and Agent Skills.

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Flexible Work Hours

Paid Vacation

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Headcount

6 month growth

-2%

1 year growth

-4%

2 year growth

1%
Kovai Media Private Limited
May 21st, 2026
Anthropic to pay SpaceX $45B for Claude AI computing capacity over three years

Anthropic has agreed to pay SpaceX nearly $45 billion over three years for computing resources to support its Claude AI software, according to SpaceX's initial public offering paperwork. The deal involves monthly payments of $1.25 billion through May 2029, with reduced fees during the initial ramp-up period. The arrangement grants Anthropic access to over 300 megawatts of computing capacity from SpaceX's Colossus 1 data centre in Memphis, Tennessee, which houses more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs. Anthropic has expanded the agreement to include Colossus 2, with plans to scale up Nvidia GB200 capacity throughout June. The partnership represents a significant boost for SpaceX, whose annual revenue currently sits around $18 billion. SpaceX indicated it expects to enter additional similar services contracts leveraging unused compute capacity.

Ars Technica
Apr 21st, 2026
Mozilla: Anthropic's Mythos AI model finds 271 zero-day bugs in Firefox 150

Mozilla has discovered 271 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 150 using early access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview AI model. The findings represent a significant increase from the 22 bugs detected by Anthropic's Opus 4.6 model in Firefox 148 last month. Firefox CTO Bobby Holley said Mythos is "every bit as capable" as the world's best security researchers, whilst eliminating the need to "concentrate many months of costly human effort to find a single bug". He believes AI tools like Mythos tilt the cybersecurity balance towards defenders by making vulnerability discovery cheaper. Anthropic released Mythos Preview to a limited group of industry partners earlier this month. Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian argues such tools are particularly crucial for open source projects, which often rely on insufficient volunteer maintenance for security.

Bloomberg L.P.
Apr 21st, 2026
Anthropic's Mythos AI sparks fear and hope over cybersecurity threats to global finance

Anthropic's new AI model Mythos has sparked concern amongst policymakers at International Monetary Fund meetings over its potential to accelerate sophisticated cyberattacks on the global financial system. However, its developers argue the technology could provide banks with their strongest defence yet. What distinguishes Mythos is its ability to chain multiple security weaknesses into coordinated attacks, effectively automating complex cyber intrusions. This capability could significantly expand the pool of potential attackers in the near term. The model's creators emphasise a longer-term benefit: the same technology could enable banks to detect and patch vulnerabilities faster than ever, potentially shifting the balance towards defenders if widely adopted. The dual-use nature of Mythos has created both panic and optimism in boardrooms and governments regarding global financial system security.

Bloomberg L.P.
Apr 17th, 2026
Indian fintechs push Anthropic for early access to 'dangerous' Mythos AI model

Indian fintech companies including One97 Communications, Razorpay Software and Pine Labs are pushing Anthropic for early access to Mythos, the AI model that has raised global concerns about cyberattack risks. The firms want to test Mythos on their own systems to detect vulnerabilities following Anthropic's announcement of a limited rollout. The San Francisco-based AI developer considers the model too dangerous for wider release but major Indian financial technology companies are seeking early access to assess potential security threats to their platforms.

Bloomberg L.P.
Apr 16th, 2026
US government prepares to give federal agencies access to Anthropic's Mythos AI model

The US government is preparing to provide major federal agencies with access to Anthropic's new AI model, Mythos, according to a memo reviewed by Bloomberg News. Gregory Barbaccia, federal chief information officer at the White House Office of Management and Budget, informed Cabinet department officials on Tuesday that OMB is establishing protections to enable agencies to use the closely guarded AI tool. The move comes amid concerns that the powerful model could significantly increase cybersecurity risks. OMB is working to set up appropriate safeguards before rolling out access to the system across government departments.