Enterprise Account Executive - Retail

About the Position

Enterprise Account Executive - Retail

London, UK

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 retail organizations across the EMEA markets. You'll drive the adoption of safe, frontier AI by securing strategic deals with retail brands. You'll leverage your consultative sales expertise in the retail sector to propel revenue growth while becoming a trusted partner to retail stakeholders, helping them embed and deploy AI while uncovering its full range of capabilities in merchandising, customer experience, and store operations. In collaboration with GTM, Product, and Marketing teams, you'll continuously refine our value proposition, sales methodology, and market positioning to resonate with retail decision-makers.

Responsibilities

• Win new business and drive revenue for Anthropic within the retail sector. Navigate complex retail organizations 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 retail procurement cycles and budgeting processes to meet and exceed revenue quotas. Analyze retail 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 merchandising teams, e-commerce divisions, and store operations. Collaborate cross-functionally to differentiate our offerings for retail applications.
• Navigate complex retail stakeholder ecosystems including executives, administrators, IT departments, and procurement offices to build consensus.
• Inform product roadmaps and features by gathering feedback from users and conveying retail market needs. Provide insights that strengthen our value proposition for retail.
• Continuously refine the retail sales methodology by incorporating learnings into playbooks, templates, and best practices. Identify process improvements that optimize sales productivity and consistency.

Requirements

• 8+ years of B2B sales experience in SaaS, API solutions, or emerging technologies.
• A track record of managing complex sales cycles within retail organizations and securing strategic deals by understanding both technical requirements and retail use cases.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate retail organizational structures and procurement processes, building consensus among diverse stakeholders including executives, administrators, and IT departments.
• Extensive experience negotiating complex agreements within retail procurement frameworks and policies.
• 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 retail audiences, from merchandisers and category managers to senior executives.
• Deep understanding of retail buying cycles, decision-making processes, and key pain points.
• A strategic, analytical approach to assessing the retail 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 retail use.

We Offer

• Competitive annual salary: £280,000-£330,000 GBP.
• 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 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.

About the Company

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.

Come Work with Us!

Anthropic is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. 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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