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Research & Education Sales Lead, Beneficial Deployments

AI summary of the role

This is a global player-coach sales leadership role owning Anthropic's research and education enterprise book, with a focus on research-intensive universities and research institutes, plus K12 in low/middle-income countries.

What you’ll do

  • Co-design research and education strategy, including target list of research institutes and research-intensive universities and K12 support
  • Lead the most complex institutional deals, resolving procurement, security review, and grant-funded budget hurdles
  • Direct and coach account executives covering education accounts, with joint account plans and deal reviews
  • Build the institutional playbook for scaling from pilot to department-wide deployment

What you’ll bring

  • Proven education or research sales experience selling SaaS into universities, research institutes, or academic medical centers
  • Science background with ability to hold credible conversations with principal investigators
  • Sales leadership experience as accountable owner of a sales business or strategic book

Technologies

Claude · agentic workflows · AI · SaaS · PLG

About Anthropic

Frontier AI lab building Claude — safety-focused foundation models sold via API, Claude.ai, Claude Code, and enterprise platform; ~80% revenue from business customers.

Series G

Source and classification

Customer adoption & accounts · Evidence for this classification:

approach to higher education, with a specific focus on research institutes and research intensive universities. You will also support K12 staff and educators across the globe, in particular in low and middle income countries, where teachers and school staff are the users and the district is often the buyer. Where our scaled motion reaches thousands of organizations one to many, this role is the opposite end of the same ecosystem: a deliberately short list of institutions where depth matters, where a lab, a department, or a whole campus adopting Claude changes what science gets done, and where the buying process runs through provosts, research offices, district superintendents, procurement, grant budgets, and security review. Reach comes first, and commercial results follow from it. That ordering is deliberate and it is shared across every leader on this team: a research institute that
More from the job description

About Anthropic 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 Anthropic's Beneficial Deployments team accelerates the work of organizations doing some of the world's most important under resourced work: nonprofits, education institutions, scientific researchers, and organizations advancing economic mobility. Education institutions sit at the center of that mission. They train the next generation, they produce the science the rest of the world builds on, and they are structurally short on time, budget, and technical capacity to figure out new technology on their own. You will lead our targeted approach to higher education, with a specific focus on research institutes and research intensive universities. You will also support K12 staff and educators across the globe, in particular in low and middle income countries, where teachers and school staff are the users and the district is often the buyer. Where our scaled motion reaches thousands of organizations one to many, this role is the opposite end of the same ecosystem: a deliberately short list of institutions where depth matters, where a [... source excerpt omitted ...] t. That ordering is deliberate and it is shared across every leader on this team: a research institute that adopts Claude to move its science faster is a win on its own terms, and you will be measured on creating that value with the institutions that matter most, not only on pipeline. You are the single accountable owner for the research and education Enterprise book globally: its target list, its AEs, its numbers, and its field voice inside Anthropic. You are half seller, half domain translator. You will personally run the most complex institutional deals, and you will be credible in a room of scientists and educators. You know how research is funded, how a university decides, [... source excerpt omitted ...] ales motion to land in a software company. You will bring that knowledge to the product, applied AI, and marketing teams who build for this audience. This is a player coach seat. You will be directly involved in deals and directing the account executives who cover education today, and the role is expected to grow thoughtfully with more AEs in key regions globally. Key responsibilities Co-design research and education strategy: the target list of research institutes and research intensive universities, support for K12 staff and educators Serve as the lead on our most complex institutional deals — setting the pursuit strategy, opening doors with lab and research-office leadersh

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