Applied AI Technical Evangelist, Startup Ecosystem

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: As a Technical Evangelist on the Startups team, you'll be the face of Anthropic in the startup ecosystem, driving awareness and activation among founders and their technical teams by showing them exactly what's possible with Claude and how to build it. Your focus is the startup developer community: getting builders from first API call to production, and turning early curiosity into committed platform adoption. This role sits at the intersection of technical depth and ecosystem development. Unlike a traditional DevRel or community role, this is built for someone who has shipped products, lived the early-stage grind, and can speak to a technical co-founder as a peer. Someone who builds live demos and writes real code, not just talks about what Claude can do. Your primary mandate is inspiring adoption across the startup funnel, turning ecosystem touchpoints into active, building developers on Anthropic's platform. You'll work closely with the Startups GTM team to convert relationships with VCs, accelerators, and founder communiti [... source excerpt omitted ...] e usage Partner closely with the Startups GTM team to create clean handoffs from relationship → activation → retention Build Technical Content That Founders Actually Use Create production-quality technical resources and products — working code samples, reference architectures, tutorial repos, and blog posts — that help a 2-person team ship with Claude in under a week Build live demos and prototypes that showcase Claude's real capabilities for common startup use cases, not marketing-grade toy examples Partner with the Product team to stay current on platform capabilities and ensure content reflects what's actually differentiated about Claude Own Developer Programming at Startu [... source excerpt omitted ...] nded a company or been an early employee at a startup — you've lived the 0-to-1 journey and know what it actually takes to go from idea to product-market fit The ability to write production-quality code and build live demos in front of a technical audience — not polished walkthroughs, but real builds that show how to solve a problem 7+ years of experience across a combination of founding, building, and technical roles — developer relations or evangelism is a plus, but builder credibility matters more than a DevRel title High energy and dynamism on stage with a highly technical audience — you can command a room of YC founders and handle tough follow-up questions without losing th