Partnership Strategy & Operations Lead, International

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.

Partnerships are one of the most important ways Anthropic brings Claude to the enterprises that will define how AI is deployed at scale. Were hiring a leader to run Partnership Strategy & Operations for our International business the markets outside North America spanning UKI EMEA India Japan and the broader APAC footprint.

Youll be the strategic partner to International partnerships leadership: responsible for the regional GTM plan the targets and the forecast and the operating architecture that keeps the motion accountable. Youll also carry a horizontal mandate across the global Partnerships function leading a small number of cross-regional initiatives that shape how the organization operates end-to-end.

This is a builders seat. Youll set the strategic agenda for the region shape GTM across heterogeneous markets and establish the operating system that turns ambition into a funded sequenced plan. Success looks like an International partner motion that is strategic and accountable under your leadership and horizontal initiatives that raise the bar globally.

Key responsibilities

• Author the International Partnership GTM strategy and the commercial thesis for how the region contributes to the global plan
• Own the regional plan end-to-end: partner coverage quota design capacity modelling and target-setting across markets
• Own the regional forecast -stage definitions conversion economics and forecast accuracy you stand behind
• Run the regional operating rhythm weekly reviews MBRs QBRs executive readouts calibrated across time zones
• Codify the regional operating handbook: SOPs runbooks and escalation playbooks localized to market realities
• Lead cross-regional strategic initiatives that shape the architecture of the global Partnerships function (e.g. OKR design investment cases long-range planning inputs)
• Co-own executive reporting for Partnerships across regions materials for GTM leadership the CEO and the Board that are honest defensible and sharp
• Maintain the global decision log and operating calendar: whats been decided what it unblocks and when the next forcing function hits

Minimum qualifications

• Experience in GTM Strategy & Operations Revenue Operations or Partner Operations at the regional or business-unit level
• Track record of building and owning regional GTM plans end-to-end across international markets with direct experience in at least two of UKI EMEA India Japan or broader APAC
• Proficiency with the RevOps stack end-to-end SQL Looker or Tableau and Salesforce or a comparable PRM
• Demonstrated ability to lead horizontal strategic initiatives across a commercial organization (e.g. OKR frameworks investment cases executive narrative)

Preferred qualifications

• 7 years of experience in GTM Strategy & Operations Revenue Operations or Partner Strategy & Operations
• Experience as the partner to a regional or international sales or partnerships leader trusted to carry the number shape the agenda and work through the hardest conversations
• Deep fluency in consumption or usage-based revenue businesses
• Strong grasp of the cross-geographic realities that break single-market playbooks: regulatory divergence data residency channel maturity and partner economics by region
• Comfort adapting style and pace across business cultures and building credibility with stakeholders in very different markets
• Strategy and operations experience inside a high-growth technology company
• A Startup or strategy consulting background paired with meaningful operating experience
• Experience preparing materials for Boards or other senior governance forums
• Working understanding of how indirect revenue models operate at scale commercial mechanics measurement challenges and organizational dynamics
• Time spent in the enterprise AI cloud or developer infrastructure markets
• A bias for execution hands-on driven to ship and energized by building rather than deliberating

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.

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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