Enterprise Account Executive - Semiconductors

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 an Enterprise Account Executive at Anthropic, you'll join the foundational team at the forefront of introducing our cutting-edge AI productivity API and SaaS solutions to semiconductor organisations across the Netherlands. You'll drive the adoption of safe, frontier AI by securing strategic deals with semiconductor equipment makers, chip designers and manufacturers, and the specialist suppliers around them. You'll leverage your consultative sales expertise in the semiconductor and high-tech sector to propel revenue growth while becoming a trusted partner to semiconductor stakeholders, helping them embed and deploy AI while uncovering its full range of capabilities across hardware and software engineering, R&D, manufacturing, supply chain and field service. In collaboration with GTM, Product, and Marketing teams, you'll continuously refine our value proposition, sales methodology, and market positioning to resonate with semiconductor decision-makers.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for developing new market segments, pinpointing high-potential opportunities, and executing strategies to capture them. By driving deployment of Anthropic's emerging products, you will help enterprises obtain new capabilities while also advancing the ethical development of AI.

Responsibilities:

• Win new business and drive revenue for Anthropic within the semiconductor sector. Navigate complex, global, engineering-led organisations 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 semiconductor procurement cycles, R&D and capex budgeting, and supplier qualification processes to meet and exceed revenue quotas. Analyse semiconductor 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 hardware and software engineering, design and verification, R&D, manufacturing and quality, supply chain and procurement, and customer support and field service. Collaborate cross-functionally to differentiate our offerings for semiconductor applications
• Navigate complex semiconductor stakeholder ecosystems including executives, engineering and R&D leadership, IT and security teams, digital transformation functions, legal and compliance, and procurement offices to build consensus
• Inform product roadmaps and features by gathering feedback from users and conveying semiconductor market needs. Provide insights that strengthen our value proposition for semiconductor clients
• Continuously refine the semiconductor sales methodology by incorporating learnings into playbooks, templates, and best practices. Identify process improvements that optimise sales productivity and consistency

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 8+ years of B2B sales experience in SaaS, API solutions, or emerging technologies
• A track record of managing complex sales cycles within semiconductor, high-tech or advanced manufacturing organisations, ideally in the Netherlands or wider Benelux, and securing strategic deals by understanding both technical requirements and engineering use cases
• Demonstrated ability to navigate large, global, engineering-led organisations and procurement processes, building consensus among diverse stakeholders including executives, engineering and R&D leadership, and IT departments
• Extensive experience negotiating complex agreements within high-tech procurement frameworks, including supplier onboarding, IP protection, security and data governance reviews
• Proven experience exceeding revenue targets by effectively managing an evolving pipeline and sales process
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to present confidently to various technical and business audiences, from engineering and R&D leads to senior executives
• Deep understanding of semiconductor buying cycles, decision-making processes, and key pain points, including the IP sensitivity, export control and supply chain pressures the industry operates within
• A strategic, analytical approach to assessing the semiconductor market combined with creative, tactical execution to capture opportunities
• A passion for and/or experience with advanced AI systems and their applications. You feel strongly about ensuring frontier AI systems are developed safely and ethically for semiconductor and high-tech use

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. 

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:£330,000—£380,000 GBP

Logistics

Minimum education: 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: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

For roles performing work in California: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed.  Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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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.