Head of Enterprise Sales - India

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.

(Location : Mumbai OR Gurgaon)

About the role

As the Head of Enterprise Sales, India at Anthropic, you will spearhead the strategic development and execution of our AI products, including Claude, across India. This role represents a critical leadership position in expanding Anthropic's presence in one of the world's fastest-growing and most dynamic technology markets.

You will initially establish and lead a specialized team of enterprise sales professionals across the region, creating our foundational sales infrastructure for that customer segment. After successfully establishing our regional presence, this role will likely transition to focus on a specific sub-region or sub-segment as we scale our India operations.

Your responsibilities will encompass building the sales team, developing strategic partnerships with our customers, , collaborating with our Product team to ensure regional market fit, and maintaining alignment with our global headquarters strategy. This position requires deep enterprise sales expertise, preferably with exposure to AI technologies, and the ability to navigate the complex regulatory and cultural landscape of the Indian market.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute comprehensive India go-to-market strategy for Enterprise customers
• Build and lead a high-performing, sustainable Enterprise sales team and motion across the region, including executing against a predefined list of tentpole strategic customers
• Establish strategic partnerships with major technology partners 
• Collaborate with Product, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to adapt offerings for the Indian market
• Conduct market analysis to identify opportunities and refine our regional approach
• Navigate complex, multi-stakeholder sales processes within large organizations
• Craft and execute strategies to differentiate Anthropic and capture market share, addressing the unique challenges of being a second-mover in the AI industry
• Ensure alignment between regional operations and global corporate strategy, representing India's priorities to global leadership
• Represent Anthropic with key customers and across partner events, communicating our trust and safety principles effectively
• Ensure our trust and safety principles are effectively communicated to our enterprise clients

You may be a good fit if you have

• 18+ years of experience in enterprise sales, with at least 5 years in leadership roles managing large-scale sales operations
• Have a proven track record of success in enterprise sales, particularly in selling technical API products or services
• Possess experience selling through partner sales and ideally through cloud partners 
• Demonstrate an ability to build and scale enterprise sales teams in a high-growth environment
• Have successfully sold into India's leading enterprises, digital natives and conglomerates
• Show a history of creative problem-solving and persistence in competitive markets
• Possess deep knowledge of the enterprise tech industry, particularly in areas like cloud services, data management, or AI
• Excel at building internal champions within client organizations
• Are driven by a desire to to create trust and have experience overcoming significant market challenges

Ideal Candidate Profile

The successful candidate will possess both strategic vision and operational excellence, with the ability to navigate diverse cultural and regulatory environments across India. You will be responsible for establishing Anthropic's enterprise sales presence in this region while building the foundation for future expansion and specialization.

This role offers exceptional opportunity for a seasoned sales leader to shape the adoption of frontier AI technology in one of the world's most exciting and rewarding markets

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.**

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.

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