Head of Portfolio Marketing

About Anthropic

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.

About the role

As Head of Portfolio Marketing at Anthropic you will own the strategic storytelling that defines how we communicate Claudes capabilities Anthropics mission and the transformative potential of safe AI to enterprise customers and the broader market. You will lead a small team crafting keynote presentations executive briefings content and core narratives that shape how leaders customers and industry stakeholders understand what were building and why it matters for the future of AI.

This role goes beyond traditional messagingyou will set the standard for how we position ourselves in the enterprise AI market while ensuring our narratives reflect Anthropics commitment to developing AI systems that are safe steerable and beneficial. You will be responsible for translating complex AI capabilities into compelling stories that resonate with enterprise buyers and accelerate our go-to-market success.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small of team of product marketers responsible for positioning messaging and executive marketing

• Develop and own executive narratives: Create high-impact keynote presentations executive briefings and strategic messaging that articulate Anthropics vision competitive differentiation and unique value proposition in the enterprise AI market

• Own competitive positioning and messaging: Translate sophisticated AI capabilities and safety features into clear compelling messages that sales teams and executives can effectively use to differentiate and win deals

• Drive cross-functional GTM alignment and narrative development: Partner closely with product marketing sales enablement corporate communications and executive leadership to ensure cohesive narratives across product launches industry events and customer cross-functional teams around shared messaging frameworks through storytelling excellence strategic influence and collaborative leadership

• Ensure message consistency and quality: Establish standards and processes for narrative development that maintain consistency while enabling teams to adapt messaging for different audiences and contexts

• Support major company milestones: Lead narrative development for significant announcements partnership launches and other strategic moments

You may be a good fit if you have

• 12 years of experience in product marketing solutions marketing or portfolio marketing at enterprise B2B software technology companies - a blend experience working for software technology startups and publicly scaled software technology companies is strongly preferred

• Proven track record of crafting executive-level presentations and go-to-market narratives that drive measurable business impact

• Deep understanding of enterprise buyer journeys and how strategic narratives accelerate complex sales cycles

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to make complex technical concepts accessible and compelling

• Experience working effectively with senior stakeholders and the judgment to provide strategic messaging counsel including when to respectfully challenge existing approaches

• Strong collaborative skills with experience rallying cross-functional teams around shared messaging without formal reporting authority

• Strategic mindset combined with hands-on execution capabilitiescomfortable developing high-level narrative strategy while also crafting specific presentation content

Strong candidates may also have

• Experience in AI/ML enterprise software or other cutting-edge technology markets

• Background working with highly regulated industries where trust safety and compliance messaging is critical

• Track record of successful competitive positioning in crowded rapidly evolving markets

• Experience developing narratives for developer audiences as well as traditional enterprise buyers

• Understanding of AI safety principles and the ability to communicate complex technical safeguards in business terms

• Experience with account-based marketing and supporting enterprise sales processes

• Background in crisis communications or managing sensitive messaging situations

What youll be shaping

Your narratives will become the foundation for our most important market momentsmajor product launches industry conferences customer success stories and competitive differentiation. You will define how the enterprise AI market understands Anthropics unique approach to building safe beneficial AI systems while ensuring our messaging drives pipeline and revenue growth.

This role offers the opportunity to shape the strategic communications of one of the worlds leading AI companies at a pivotal moment in the industrys development while ensuring our narratives reflect our commitment to responsible AI deployment and societal benefit.

Role-specific policy: For this role we expect staff to be able to work from our San Francisco office at least 2 days a week. We encourage you to apply even if you might need some flexibility for an interim period of time for relocation.

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Logistics

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.

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 youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were 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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you some cases we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money fees or banking information before your first day. If youre ever unsure about a communication dont click any linksvisit for confirmed position openings.

How were 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. Were 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 aboutour policyfor using AI in our application process