Manager, Sales Development, Enterprise

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About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

As a Sales Development Manager for Enterprise at Anthropic, you will lead the team that opens our most strategic customer relationships. You'll build and manage a team of 6-10 Business Development Representatives (BDRs) who generate high-value pipeline inside complex enterprise organizations through account-based prospecting, multi-threaded outreach, and rigorous qualification.

Enterprise buying is long and involves many stakeholders. The work here is less about volume and more about depth: knowing an account well enough to reach the right people with the right message, and staying with it long enough to turn early conversations into real opportunities. You'll bring a strong understanding of enterprise sales cycles and organizational dynamics, and you'll coach your team to develop strategic accounts over time.

You'll partner closely with Enterprise Account Executives and with leaders across Sales, Revenue Operations, Strategy, and Marketing. You'll also develop the next generation of Anthropic's enterprise sellers, helping BDRs grow into Account Executive roles while they help the world's largest organizations adopt safe, frontier AI.

Key responsibilities

• Build, lead, and scale a team of BDRs focused on the Enterprise segment
• Drive strategic pipeline generation through account-based prospecting and targeted outbound campaigns to Global 2000 accounts
• Coach your team on partnering with Enterprise Account Executives to develop account plans, coordinate multi-threaded outreach, and ensure high-quality opportunity handoffs
• Establish and track KPIs focused on opportunity quality, deal size, and strategic account penetration
• Coach and model for your team on enterprise prospecting, stakeholder mapping, and complex qualification
• Build a deep understanding of enterprise buying processes, and coach the 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 across Sales, Revenue Operations, Strategy, and Marketing
• Coach and mentor BDRs on strategic prospecting, executive engagement, and career development toward Account Executive roles

Minimum qualifications

• Experience managing BDR, SDR, or new business Account Executive teams in an enterprise-focused sales organization
• A track record of building teams that prospect successfully into complex enterprise organizations
• Experience with account-based selling strategies, including account planning, stakeholder mappi

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How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.