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Anthropic

Builds Claude AI models with a focus on safety

Head of Programmatic Customer Success

Full-Time
$365k - $435k/yr
Expert
Bachelor's
San Francisco, CA, USA+1 moreMore locations: New York, NY, USA
HybridAt least 25% of working time must be spent in an office.
Customer Experience & SupportCustomer Success
H1B Sponsorship Available

About the job

Requirements
  • Proven experience leading and building programmatic, digital success, lifecycle, or product-led growth motions at significant scale, with direct ownership of an adoption or activation outcome.
  • Track record of building scalable systems and programs rather than only managing existing ones, including having started from a blank page.
  • Strong cross-functional instincts, including writing briefs that other teams execute against, resolving handoff ambiguity, and influencing roadmaps without direct authority.
  • Data-driven decision-making, including experience designing experiments that distinguish real behavior change from activity metrics.
  • Experience managing and developing teams.
  • Minimum education: a bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
  • Required field of study: a field relevant to the role, as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
  • Minimum years of experience will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position.
Responsibilities
  • Define the customer journey and the moments that matter to drive daily Claude usage and outcomes for users.
  • Define and own the programmatic Customer Success strategy, including account tiers, the motion each tier receives, and how customers move between tiers as their needs evolve.
  • Design and ship digital success programs, including lifecycle communications, in-product nudges, and self-serve onboarding, to drive activation and habitual usage without human-touch coverage.
  • Build and run AI-powered engagement plays to extend the team's reach, and work with Product to clarify what the team builds versus what belongs in the product.
  • Set the quality bar and requirements for partner-led activation, and maintain a feedback loop with the Partnerships team that owns the partner ecosystem.
  • Establish the metrics framework for programmatic success, define activation at each tier, identify leading indicators, and build instrumentation to track them.
  • Run an experimentation program to understand which motions change customer behavior.
  • Hire and lead a small, high-leverage team while bringing cross-functional partners along on the vision and operating model.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience spanning more than one of digital/product-led growth, partner ecosystems, lifecycle marketing, or scaled Customer Success, ideally combined into a single integrated motion.
  • Hands-on familiarity with AI-powered workflows or automation as a force multiplier for a small team.
  • Background working at a fast-growing technology company where the playbook was still being written.
  • Experience with tiered coverage models and designing handoffs between high-touch and low-touch service.

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

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$242.8B

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

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Headcount

6 month growth

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1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

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DealStreetAsia
Oct 22nd, 2026
Blackstone eyes AI financing boom, with 7% of its $1.4T assets already exposed

Blackstone sees growing opportunities to finance artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, from chips and computing equipment to power generation and data centres. "The needs of capital here are so enormous. It's unprecedented in our lifetimes," President Jon Gray said on the firm's third-quarter earnings call. The firm is reportedly committing $9 billion to a junior-debt tranche in an $18 billion financing package for Anthropic's AI chips and computing infrastructure, part of a broader $60 billion arrangement. In June, its Credit & Insurance business joined a $35 billion financing launched by Apollo and Broadcom for Anthropic. Blackstone is also weighing dedicated investment vehicles alongside broader funds. About 7% of its $1.4 trillion in assets under management is exposed to AI infrastructure. Gray said the firm focuses on physical infrastructure and long-term contracted assets to manage risks such as technological obsolescence.

PR Newswire
Oct 22nd, 2026
Cube joins Claude's connector directory, bringing live, permissioned FP&A data to finance teams

Cube, an agentic financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform, has partnered with Anthropic to make its financial model available inside Claude. Finance teams can now add Cube through Claude's connector directory. The connector gives Claude the chart of accounts, business logic, and enterprise permissions behind a company's numbers. Each user sees only the data they are authorised to access, and figures can be traced to the source transaction. Users sign in through a secure OAuth flow, with no API keys to manage. They can then ask questions in plain English, such as comparing actuals with forecast, or set up new scenarios. "Data tells AI what the numbers are. Financial context tells AI what the numbers mean," said Christina Ross, founder and chief executive officer of Cube. The Cube MCP Server is available now.

Associated Press
Oct 22nd, 2026
Qlik's MCP server joins Anthropic's Claude Directory, bringing governed data to Claude

Qlik has made its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server available through Anthropic's Claude Directory. Claude users can now connect governed Qlik data, analytical logic, and selected analytics workflows more easily. The server gives Claude access to data lineage, trust signals, and business metrics from Qlik Cloud. Users can search apps and datasets, ask questions in natural language, and create dashboards with prompts. Teams no longer need to rebuild business logic elsewhere. Access runs on OAuth-based authentication and existing Qlik Cloud permissions, so enterprise controls stay in place. "Customers adopting Claude want more than an LLM hooked to raw records," said Josh Good, vice president of corporate strategy at Qlik. The company announced the news on October 22, 2026.

CNBC
Oct 21st, 2026
Anthropic previews Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent rivalling Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots

Anthropic on Wednesday announced a preview of Claude Duet, an AI agent for small businesses and professionals. It can send daily briefs, keep tabs on connected apps, and carry out tasks such as building dashboards, scheduling meetings, and creating financial forecasts. The launch follows Meta's Muse, which topped Apple's App Store after its launch last month, and OpenAI's Dots. Meta chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg said more than 10 million people in the US and Canada have set up Muse agents. Anthropic said Duet is still early and "might misread a thread or miscalibrate what's urgent." Personal errands, such as booking tickets, are not "quite as strong." A waitlist is open. Pro and Max subscribers can use the preview through a standalone app or the Claude website.

Fortune
Oct 21st, 2026
Eric Schmidt's 1% Anthropic stake could be worth $20B, thanks to an introduction from his ex

Eric Schmidt's early bet on Anthropic could be worth as much as $20 billion if the AI company goes public at its $2 trillion target, Bloomberg reported. The former Google chief executive officer reportedly owns a 1% stake, and the listing could come as soon as next month. Schmidt's link to Anthropic came through Cami Clark, whom he dated for three years from 2011. She later married Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei and introduced the two men. Schmidt joined Anthropic's $124 million Series A round in 2021, investing tens of millions, sources said. PitchBook data valued the company at $461 million then; it is now valued at $965 billion. Anthropic made $16.3 billion in revenue in the first half of this year, up from $1.1 billion a year earlier.