Manager, Sales Development

Manager, Sales Development

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.

Role Overview

As a Sales Development Manager at Anthropic, you'll lead and scale our business development function to drive pipeline generation for our frontier AI products. You'll build and manage a high-performing team of BDRs, optimize our lead management processes, and collaborate closely with sales leadership to ensure alignment between pipeline generation and revenue goals. This is a critical role in scaling Anthropic's go-to-market engine during a period of hyper-growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and scale a team of 8-12 BDRs focused on both inbound lead management and strategic outbound prospecting
• Develop and implement strategies to optimize lead routing, qualification, and conversion processes
• Partner with sales leadership to align pipeline generation with revenue targets across Startup and Enterprise segments
• Establish and track KPIs for lead quality, conversion rates, and pipeline contribution
• Create comprehensive training programs and career development paths for BDRs
• Collaborate with marketing to optimize lead quality and campaign effectiveness
• Drive adoption of sales tools and technologies (Salesforce, HubSpot, SQL) to improve team efficiency
• Implement data-driven approaches to continuously improve team performance
• Manage relationships with cross-functional stakeholders including sales, marketing, and operations
• Build scalable processes to support Anthropic's rapid growth
• Coach and mentor BDRs on prospecting strategies, qualification techniques, and career development

Qualifications

Preferred Experience

Logistics

Annual Salary : $165,000 - $190,000 USD

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.

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.