Head of Deal Desk International

Anthropics 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.

Anthropics Deal Desk sits at the center of how we turn commercial intent into signed bookable business. As demand for Claude grows across every region the deals themselves are getting larger more structured and more consequential and the desk is what keeps them moving quickly without sacrificing pricing discipline deal quality or clean handoffs downstream. We already run this well in the Americas. This role builds and leads the equivalent outside it.

Youll own Deal Desk for our international business EMEA and APAC and lead a team of three. Youll be the commercial partner sales teams come to when a deal doesnt fit the standard shape: multi-year and consumption structures non-standard pricing and discounting complex commit and ramp terms and the approvals that go with them. Youll make those deals faster to close and cleaner to book and youll be the point where regional nuance meets a consistent global standard rather than fragmenting away from it.

Youll partner closely with the global Deal Desk lead to keep one operating model across regions while adapting it to the realities of selling in markets with different currencies tax and entity structures and buying norms. Internally youll work shoulder to shoulder with Sales Revenue Operations Revenue Accounting Legal and Finance translating between what the field needs to win and what the business needs to book cleanly. When those interests pull in different directions youre often the person who resolves it.

This is a foundational role: youll establish how Deal Desk operates across our international regions and youll hire develop and scale the team that runs it. If you want to build the commercial engine for a business growing this fast in the regions where much of that growth is still ahead of us this is the seat.

• Own Deal Desk for Anthropics international business across EMEA and APAC the operating model the team and the outcomes
• Lead hire and develop a team of three and scale it as the international business grows
• Serve as the commercial partner to international sales teams on complex and non-standard deals including pricing discounting multi-year and consumption structures commit and ramp terms and deal structuring
• Own the deal approval and review process for the region clear thresholds fast turnaround and the right escalation paths so that speed and pricing discipline arent traded off against each other
• Partner with the global Deal Desk lead to maintain one consistent operating model across regions adapting it to regional currency tax entity and buying-norm differences rather than fragmenting from it
• Act as the validation point between deal creation and order management ensuring quotes and signed order forms are structured to book cleanly and provision correctly
• Work across Revenue Operations Revenue Accounting Legal and Finance to resolve the trade-offs that non-standard deals create and to close gaps between what closes a deal and what books correctly
• Own the quality of Deal Desk inputs in Salesforce and CPQ for the region and drive the process and tooling improvements that let the desk scale without adding friction
• Establish the metrics that show the desk is working cycle time approval turnaround deal quality and downstream booking accuracy and hold the team to them

• Are excited about Anthropics mission to develop AI that is safe and beneficial
• Work effectively in fast-moving environments with high ambiguity and are comfortable building process where little exists yet
• Have led a Deal Desk deal management or revenue operations function and have structured complex non-standard commercial deals directly
• Have managed people and can hire develop and grow a team
• Understand the mechanics of deal structuring pricing discounting multi-year and consumption models commit and ramp terms and the approval frameworks that govern them
• Have worked across Sales Legal Finance and Revenue Accounting to move deals from quote to signed bookable order
• Are fluent in the tooling of a modern GTM stack including Salesforce and CPQ
• Communicate clearly and credibly with both field sales and internal control functions and can resolve competing interests between them

• Extensive experience running Deal Desk or revenue operations across international markets ideally spanning both EMEA and APAC
• Have built or materially scaled a Deal Desk function rather than only inheriting and running one
• Familiarity with the operational realities of selling internationally multi-currency multi-entity and varied tax and invoicing requirements
• Experience with quote-to-order and order management processes and the handoffs between them
• Exposure to CPQ platforms such as and to the systems and data that connect quoting to booking
• Have worked at a company that scaled significantly during your tenure particularly through a period of rapid international growth
• Understanding of how enterprises evaluate and buy AI products and how that shapes commercial structures

Minimum education: Bachelors 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 arent 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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