Manager, Account Executive

About the Position

Manager, Account Executive

Location: Tokyo, Japan

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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.

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About the Role

In this role, you'll lead a team of Account Executives driving the adoption of safe, frontier AI with top enterprises across Japan. This role is critical to Anthropic's Japan expansion.

You'll leverage your leadership expertise to propel revenue growth while developing a high-performing team. Working closely with Applied AI Engineering, Product, GTM, and Marketing teams, you'll help enterprise customers deploy AI solutions and refine our market positioning for Japan.

The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of Japanese business culture, a passion for developing people, and the ability to navigate Japan's consensus-driven sales environment.

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Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing team of Account Executives, providing coaching, mentorship, and guidance to drive team success
• Develop and implement sales strategies tailored to enterprise procurement cycles and budgeting processes to meet and exceed team revenue quotas
• Create and maintain accurate forecasts, pipeline management, and reporting while ensuring data integrity in CRM systems
• Partner with Enablement to develop training programs and resources that accelerate AE ramp time and effectiveness, with focus on Japanese enterprise buying cycles and decision-making processes
• Work closely with Applied AI Engineering teams to demonstrate technical capabilities pre-sales and optimize solutions post-sales
• Enable your team to have credible technical conversations about AI applications while maintaining appropriate guardrails
• Build strong partnerships across the organization to drive strategic initiatives
• Identify and execute on new market opportunities and use cases for Anthropic's AI solutions across enterprise segments
• Help your team navigate complex enterprise stakeholder ecosystems including executives, IT departments, and procurement offices to build consensus

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Requirements

• 10 years of enterprise sales experience, preferably driving adoption of SaaS or emerging technologies
• 3+ years of sales leadership experience within the Enterprise segment
• Proven track record of building and leading high-performing sales teams selling into large enterprises, with demonstrated success in coaching and developing AEs
• Experience establishing and scaling sales processes, tools, and methodologies in fast-growing organizations
• Strong technical acumen with ability to enable credible AI conversations
• Track record of successful partnership with technical teams throughout the customer journey
• Deep understanding of enterprise buying cycles, procurement frameworks, and common pain points across industries
• Demonstrated ability to navigate complex, multithreaded sales cycles across diverse stakeholder groups and drive cross-functional initiatives
• Experience managing complex enterprise sales cycles and helping AEs secure strategic deals
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build relationships across all levels, from individual contributors to C-suite executives
• Strategic approach to market analysis combined with tactical excellence in execution
• Passion for AI technology and commitment to its safe, responsible development
• Business-level Japanese required; English proficiency strongly preferred

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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 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.

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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.

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We Offer

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.

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