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What this posting asks for
Level: Senior — The posting asks for 5+ years of experience.
Main responsibilities
- Own all revenue outcomes for a book of enterprise accounts, driving new logo acquisition and early expansion across multiple use cases
- Generate the majority of your own pipeline through outbound, creative prospecting, and proactive multithreading into enterprise accounts that have not yet en…
- Run a high-velocity sales cycle from first meeting through close, qualifying quickly, advancing rigorously, and knowing when to walk
- Develop a clear point of view on where Claude creates value in each account and bring that POV to technical and business stakeholders alike
- Build relationships with directors, VPs, and executive sponsors within your enterprise accounts, earning the right to expand by delivering early wins
- Negotiate and close commercial agreements involving technical evaluations, security review, and enterprise procurement
- Partner with Product, Applied AI, and Engineering to surface what's working, what's not, and what enterprise buyers need next
- Contribute to the playbook, proof points, and motion that this team is building from the ground up
- You may be a good fit if you have
- 3-5+ years selling into enterprise accounts as a full-cycle individual contributor carrying a bag, with a track record of consistently exceeding quota
Competencies an interviewer will look for
- Technical skill Core
In the posting: “Partner with Product, Applied AI, and Engineering to surface what's working, what's not, and what enterprise buyers need next” · “Background selling platform, API, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, or AI/ML into enterprise” · “Background in developer tools, API, or AI/ML sales into technical buyers”
Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off. - Teamwork and collaboration Core
In the posting: “You'll work closely with Product, Applied AI, and GTM to learn what's working at scale and feed it back into the playbook we're building from the ground up.” · “Partner with Product, Applied AI, and Engineering to surface what's working, what's not, and what enterprise buyers need next” · “In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic.”
Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled. - Stakeholder management Core
In the posting: “As a Scaled Enterprise Account Executive, you'll own a book of enterprise accounts and the full revenue outcome for each.” · “Develop a clear point of view on where Claude creates value in each account and bring that POV to technical and business stakeholders alike” · “Build relationships with directors, VPs, and executive sponsors within your enterprise accounts, earning the right to expand by delivering early wins”
Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior. - Communication Core
In the posting: “If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.” · “As such, we greatly value communication skills.”
Show it by: Adapts the message to the listener; Gives an example of explaining something clearly in writing or speech. - Attention to detail and quality Core
In the posting: “Your safety matters to us.” · “This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, S…”
Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used. - Customer focus Supporting
In the posting: “We're focused on reaching new customers efficiently, turning first conversations into real, expanding partnerships, and building the playbook for how Anthrop…”
Show it by: Puts the customer's need in their own words; Shows a result for the customer, not only for the company. - Planning and organisation Supporting
In the posting: “Comfort engaging both technical and business buyers at the director and VP level within enterprise organizations”
Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how. - Adaptability and learning Supporting
In the posting: “We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely…”
Show it by: Describes learning something new quickly and using it; Shows a change of plan and how they adjusted.
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Practice questions
- Tell me about yourself. Dedicated step-by-step practice.
- If an interviewer asks something improper How to respond to questions about age, family, origin or health.
- Built from this posting (8):
- Walk me through a piece of work where you used your strongest technical skill. What exactly did you do? From this posting
- Describe a time you worked with another team to deliver something. What was your part? From this posting
- Tell me about a time you had to get agreement from people who wanted different things. From this posting
- Tell me about a time you had to explain something complex to someone outside your field. From this posting
- How have you used training in your work? Walk me through one real example. From this posting
- Tell me about a problem you solved using sales. From this posting
- Tell me about a time you helped someone on your team get better at their work. From this posting
- Describe a time you went out of your way to solve a customer's problem. From this posting
- This posting reads as Software engineering: its questions come first.
- Tell me about the hardest bug you have tracked down. How did you find the cause? Software engineering
- Describe a technical design decision you made and the trade-off behind it. Software engineering
- Tell me about a time you disagreed with a teammate in a code review. Software engineering
- Production is down and you are the first engineer to notice. What do you do in the first 30 minutes? Software engineering
- How do you decide what to test before you ship a change? Software engineering
- Walk me through a feature you built from start to finish. What tools and languages did you use? Software engineering
- Tell me about a time you helped a less experienced engineer get unstuck. Software engineering
- Your estimate for a feature turns out to be badly wrong halfway through. What do you do? Software engineering
- Tell me about a sale or agreement you are proud of.
- Describe a time you handled an upset customer or colleague.
- Tell me about a time you had several deadlines at once. How did you decide what to do first?
- Give an example of a mistake you caught before it caused a problem.
- Tell me about a time you taught someone how to do something.
- Describe a time you took the lead without being asked.
- Tell me about a time you had to explain something complicated in simple terms.
- Describe a process you improved.
- Do you have any questions for us?
- Why do you want to work here?
- Why is there a gap in your employment? Difficult question
- Why did you leave your last job? Difficult question
- Why are you changing careers? Difficult question
- What is your greatest weakness? Difficult question
- What are your salary expectations? Difficult question
- You seem overqualified for this role. Why do you want it? Difficult question
- Improper-question practice: How old are you? / Do you have children? / Where are you from originally?
- A customer is angry about a delay you did not cause. What do you do?
- How do you keep track of many open customer requests?
- Tell me about a time you could not give a customer what they wanted.
- You find that the inventory count does not match the system. What do you do?
- Tell me about a time a shipment or delivery went wrong.
- How do you make sure safety rules are followed on a busy shift?
- Two managers ask you to book the same room at the same time. What do you do?
- How have you used spreadsheets in your work?
- Tell me about a time you had to enter or check a lot of data accurately.
- A prospect says your price is too high. How do you respond?
- How do you keep your pipeline organised?
- Tell me about a technical problem you solved on your own.
- You find a bug right before a release. What do you do?
- Walk me through how you would check whether a report's numbers are right.

