Full-Time

Enterprise Account Executive

Higher Education

Posted on 4/18/2025

Anthropic

Anthropic

5,001-10,000 employees

Develops reliable, interpretable AI systems

Compensation Overview

$180k - $350k/yr

+ Equity + Benefits + Incentive Compensation

H1B Sponsorship Available

San Francisco, CA, USA + 1 more

More locations: New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Requirements
  • 5+ years of B2B sales experience in higher education technology, preferably in SaaS, API solutions, or emerging technologies
  • A track record of managing complex sales cycles within academic institutions and securing strategic deals by understanding both technical requirements and educational use cases
  • Demonstrated ability to navigate academic bureaucracies and procurement processes, building consensus among diverse stakeholders including faculty, administrators, and IT departments
  • Extensive experience negotiating complex agreements within higher education procurement frameworks and policies
  • Proven experience exceeding revenue targets in the education sector by effectively managing an evolving pipeline and sales process
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to present confidently to various academic audiences, from faculty and researchers to senior administration
  • Deep understanding of higher education buying cycles, decision-making processes, and key pain points
  • A strategic, analytical approach to assessing the education market combined with creative, tactical execution to capture opportunities
  • A passion for and/or experience with advanced AI systems and their applications in education.
Responsibilities
  • Win new business and drive revenue for Anthropic within the higher education sector. Navigate complex academic institutions to reach key decision-makers, educate them about our services, and help them succeed with Anthropic. You'll own the full sales cycle, from first outbound to close
  • Design and execute innovative sales strategies tailored to higher education procurement cycles and budgeting processes to meet and exceed revenue quotas. Analyze education market landscapes, trends, and dynamics to translate high-level plans into targeted sales activities and campaigns
  • Spearhead market expansion by identifying new use cases within academic departments, research centers, and administrative offices. Collaborate cross-functionally to differentiate our offerings for educational applications
  • Navigate complex academic stakeholder ecosystems including faculty, administrators, IT departments, and procurement offices to build consensus
  • Inform product roadmaps and features by gathering feedback from educational users and conveying academic market needs. Provide insights that strengthen our value proposition for higher education
  • Continuously refine the higher education sales methodology by incorporating learnings into playbooks, templates, and best practices. Identify process improvements that optimize sales productivity and consistency.
Desired Qualifications
  • A passion for developing new market segments, pinpointing high-potential opportunities, and executing strategies to capture them
  • A strong belief in ensuring frontier AI systems are developed safely and ethically for academic use.

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

$77.3B

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Japan's megabanks access Claude Mythos by May 2026 end for operations.
  • Launched 12 legal plugins May 12, 2026, attracting 20,000 professionals.
  • Thomson Reuters integrates Claude with CoCounsel for 1 million users summer 2026.

What critics are saying

  • Japan FSA working group delays Mythos banking deployments within 3-6 months.
  • Voided Forge and Hiive trades trigger Delaware litigation in 6-12 months.
  • EU AI Act audits halt Claude Mythos European sales by Q3 2026.

What makes Anthropic unique

  • Anthropic pioneers Constitutional AI and RLHF for model alignment.
  • Responsible Scaling Policy mandates safety thresholds before deployments.
  • Claude Platform on AWS operates independently outside hyperscaler boundaries.

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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

1%
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.

Bloomberg L.P.
Apr 16th, 2026
Anthropic's Mythos AI model raises cybersecurity alarms for banks and governments

Anthropic's new Mythos AI model is causing concern among banks, tech giants and governments over its potential implications for cybersecurity and the internet's future. The model has prompted a scramble amongst major institutions to understand its capabilities and risks. Details about the specific features raising alarms were not disclosed in the source material.

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