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Anysphere

Hybrid human-AI coding productivity tool

GTM Strategy & Ops Lead - APJ

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/15/2026
No salary listed
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Japan+1 moreMore locations: Singapore
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Sales & Account ManagementSales Operations

About the job

Requirements
  • You have 15+ years in revenue operations or go-to-market strategy at a high-growth technology company, with meaningful depth in sales operations—not just analytical support.
  • You've operated as a true business partner to go-to-market leadership, shaping priorities, influencing decisions, and earning credibility in the room.
  • You've built operational infrastructure in an early-stage or rapidly scaling environment.
  • You have experience at a software-as-a-service or consumption-based company and understand how that model shapes forecasting, metrics, and territory design.
  • You're comfortable with ambiguity and can help answer open questions about how a region builds and scales.
  • You're strong analytically, with the organizational rigor to manage multiple priorities and the communication skills to influence senior stakeholders.
  • You have experience building territories, compensation plans, and quotas for go-to-market teams and are fluent in Salesforce.
Responsibilities
  • Serve as the embedded go-to-market strategy and operations partner for the APJ sales and go-to-market team, acting as a trusted advisor and operator to regional leadership.
  • Build core operating infrastructure from scratch, including forecasting cadences, pipeline review processes, territory design, quota frameworks, and performance visibility.
  • Drive regional business reviews and strategic analyses to identify trends, surface opportunities, and inform go-to-market decisions at the leadership level.
  • Partner with go-to-market leadership and cross-functional stakeholders in Finance, Enablement, and Data to develop go-to-market strategy and resource plans for ANZ and APJ.
  • Design and manage territory allocation to optimize sales team performance, and provide data-driven recommendations aligned with broader business objectives.
  • Lead high-impact regional projects that improve efficiency and effectiveness across the APJ revenue organization.
  • Serve as the connection between the APJ go-to-market team and the global revenue operations and strategy function, ensuring alignment, sharing effective practices, and advocating for regional needs.
  • Hire and lead a team across APJ.

About the company

Anysphere develops software tools that integrate artificial intelligence into the programming process to increase developer productivity. Its primary product is Cursor, an AI-first code editor that allows users to generate large code changes with minimal effort and receive instant answers to technical questions about their codebase. Unlike traditional editors that treat AI as a secondary plugin, Anysphere builds its system from the ground up to create a hybrid human-AI workflow supported by a team of elite researchers and open-source contributors. The company's goal is to create a coding environment where writing bugs is nearly impossible and software iteration is effortless.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$5.4B

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2022

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What believers are saying

  • Anthropic said it will increase Claude compute in Cursor after August 29, 2026.
  • Cursor released Grok 4.7 on September 21, 2026, extending its model roadmap.
  • September 2026 product launches target Teams and Enterprise, widening monetization beyond core editor seats.

What critics are saying

  • OpenAI ends Cursor model access on November 12, 2026 after the August 14 SpaceX deal.
  • Cursor now depends on SpaceXAI, making rival model access and pricing structurally fragile.
  • Enterprise buyers distrust a Musk-controlled editor after OpenAI cited contract-violation concerns in August 2026.

What makes Anysphere unique

  • Cursor shipped Projects and self-hosted machines on September 10, 2026.
  • Cursor launched Rollouts and Security Review for enterprise deployment on September 23, 2026.
  • Cursor owns the full coding workflow, from editor to agentic review to production monitoring.

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  • Remote Work Options

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1 year growth

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2 year growth

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YesPress
Oct 14th, 2026
Resourcely: The Startup That Made Terraform Behave - Then Cursor Bought It

Blueprints for the golden path. Guardrails for everything else. Acquired by Anysphere (Cursor) in July 2025.

GCN
Oct 12th, 2026
Cursor raises $2.3B at $29.3B valuation, but its $20 Pro plan runs dry fast

Cursor, the coding assistant maker owned by Anysphere, closed a $2.3 billion Series D round at a $29.3 billion valuation. Accel and Coatue Management co-led the round, with Nvidia participating. The company says annualised revenue has passed $1 billion. Yet its $20 monthly Pro plan frustrates users. Cursor swapped request-based limits for usage-based pricing, so $20 now buys compute at API rates, roughly 225 Sonnet 4 requests. Some users ran out after a few prompts and faced unexpected extra charges. Cursor's chief executive apologised for poor communication and offered refunds for surprise usage between June 16 and July 4, 2025. Complaints about unclear limits and credit use by Agent Mode persist.

Wired
Sep 3rd, 2026
OpenAI cuts off $1B customer Cursor after SpaceX acquisition to avoid Elon Musk

OpenAI has ended its partnership with Cursor, the AI coding tool recently acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion, citing concerns it cannot trust Elon Musk's company to adhere to its terms of service. The decision represents a significant financial loss, as Cursor was among OpenAI's top five customers by revenue at the start of 2026. OpenAI estimated Cursor would generate more than $1 billion in annualised revenue based on the partnership's spring performance, according to people familiar with the matter. The company stated it made the choice because it cannot be confident SpaceX will use its technology within service terms, based on experience with Musk's companies violating contracts. Cursor founder Michael Truell, now at SpaceX, responded that OpenAI's models serve only about 5% of Cursor user traffic. OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux countered that token usage is not a proxy for revenue or value created.

Yahoo Finance
Aug 29th, 2026
OpenAI cuts off Cursor after $60B SpaceX acquisition, Anthropic steps in with Claude

OpenAI terminated its model supply agreement with Cursor on 28 August 2026, two weeks after SpaceX acquired Anysphere for $60 billion. The cut-off took effect on 12 November 2026. OpenAI cited trust concerns regarding Elon Musk's companies, referencing contract violations and allegations that xAI distilled OpenAI models. Musk dismissed the move, calling Sam Altman and Greg Brockman "untrustworthy". Anthropic is filling the gap, increasing compute capacity for Claude models on Cursor. Menlo Ventures data shows Anthropic holds 40% enterprise spend share versus OpenAI's 27%. Anthropic's Q2 2026 revenue reached $11.5 billion, surpassing OpenAI's $6.7 billion, with $8 billion from Claude Code. Anthropic targets an October 2026 IPO at a $965 billion valuation.

The Register
Aug 23rd, 2026
Cursor tackles Git scalability with S3-backed architecture

Cursor, the SpaceX subsidiary, has developed a new approach to managing Git at scale using object storage. The company built a Git-based repository service called Origin, powered by an internal engine named Continuity. Traditional Git architecture struggles with synchronisation at scale. GitHub's approach uses multiple tightly synchronised copies on NVMe disks, but synchronisation time increases with more replicas. AI agents have exacerbated these challenges by creating vast numbers of small, often throwaway repositories. Cursor's solution stores pushes in Amazon S3 as immutable objects in a write-ahead log, whilst simultaneously writing to a local NVMe repository. S3 serves as the source of truth, whilst local repositories act as warm caches for latency-sensitive operations. A beta of Origin is available with paid Cursor plans.