As a seasoned Sales Leader, you will be responsible for leading a team of Mid Market account executives to exceed bookings targets. You will develop comprehensive knowledge of our technology platform, product messaging, partner ecosystem, and competitor landscape. You will actively contribute to and own sales plan creation, compensation structures, and customer segmentation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading a team of Mid Market account executives to exceed bookings targets
• Developing comprehensive knowledge of our technology platform, product messaging, partner ecosystem, and competitor landscape
• Actively contributing to and owning sales plan creation, compensation structures, and customer segmentation
• Ensuring the attainment of assigned sales quotas by 'leading from the front' and driving Elastic's sales methodology
• Actively fostering an environment of teamwork, transparency, creativity, and continuous improvement
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with representatives of the Open Source community and partner ecosystems
• Travel regularly to assist in deal creation and closure, as well as meet any managerial needs and provide support to your team as required.

Requirements include:

• Proven experience leading successful Mid Market sales teams
• Proven success developing and executing a scalable and repeatable sales strategy
• Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision-making capabilities
• Experience building and implementing sales processes and frameworks
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Consistent track record of leading teams to exceed quotas and objectives within a fast-paced and technical client acquisition driven business
• SaaS sales leadership
• Ability to operate in an entrepreneurial environment
• Business English is required

Bonus points for experience working within an Open Source model.

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As an Account Executive (Existing Business) on the Stripe Platforms team, you will create partnerships between Stripe and the most innovative and fastest-growing software platforms in the world.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage and nurture a named account list and develop account plans for winning and expanding business with upper middle market and enterprise companies
• Build and maintain key relationships with C-level executives, while orchestrating the right executive touch points as needed
• Contribute to shaping our platform partnership strategy and building repeatable processes and scaled engagement models
• Develop outbound strategies to create and nurture opportunities
• Own the full sales cycle from lead to close for upper middle market and enterprise companies
• Develop relationships with executive stakeholders at new and existing clients
• Work with company leaders from multiple functions (e.g., Engineering, Product, and Finance) to lead complex product workshops and financial analyses
• Lead and contribute to team projects to develop and refine our sales process
• Engage with Product and Engineering teams to help drive product strategy

Who You Are

You are an adept salesperson and relationship manager capable of engaging in business-level and technical conversations at multiple levels of the organization, including the CTO, COO, and CFO. You have experience working with upper middle market and enterprise companies. You have an in-depth understanding of the buyer journey and can lead a complex, multi-party sale in a highly consultative manner. You are used to building value in competitive situations and enjoy working on products that require deep product understanding, combined with technical knowledge. You are naturally analytical and enjoy digging into business models and helping customers quantify their investment decisions. You get excited about prospecting, and are capable of independently leading a sales cycle from start to finish. Finally, you enjoy building – you like to actively participate in the development of our sales process, the articulation of our value proposition, and the creation of key tools and assets.

Minimum Requirements

• 7+ years of sales experience, preferably selling a technical product, with a track record of top performance
• Extensive experience directly selling a technology product or service, preferably at an API-first company, with a record of top performance
• A proven track record of moving sales processes forward from inception to close by leading complex, multi-party sales in a highly consultative manner, understanding strategies and applying value proposition
• Great listening skills and ability to quickly become a trusted resource for decision-makers across technology and finance orgs within software companies
• An ability to understand complex technical problems and understand how Stripe’s solutions can address them
• A positive attitude and tireless work ethic when encountering blockers to success, whether external or internal
• Strong presentation skills
• Proven ability to lead complex negotiations involving bespoke commercial agreements
• Superior verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment
• Strong interest in technology and a deep understanding of the space
• Experience in or excitement in learning about financial technology infrastructure
• Fastidious approach to CRM hygiene and experience utilizing thorough sales forecasting metrics on a weekly/quarterly basis and communicating them in a succinct manner

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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.

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 APAC 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.

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 organisation 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

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 15+ years of enterprise sales experience, preferably driving adoption of SaaS or emerging technologies

• 5+ 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 organisations

• 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

Logistics

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.

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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 to do with data and experimentation as it does with theory and mathematics.

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