About this role
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 the Sales Manager for Life Sciences at Anthropic, you’ll lead the foundational team introducing our frontier AI platform to the life sciences ecosystem, spanning biotech, pharma, and medtech. You’ll build and develop a team of Strategic Account Executives who drive adoption of safe, frontier AI by securing strategic deals with pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies. You’ll bring deep domain fluency across the segment to coach your team’s consultative sales approach, while becoming a trusted advisor yourself to senior life sciences stakeholders, helping them embed and deploy AI across the product lifecycle from discovery through commercialization. In collaboration with Product and Marketing, you’ll continuously refine the team’s value proposition, sales methodology, and market positioning to resonate with decision-makers across each sub-segment.
The ideal candidate has a passion for developing new market segments within life sciences, pinpointing high-potential opportunities across R&D, clinical, regulatory, manufacturing, and commercial functions, and building a team that can execute strategies to capture them. By driving deployment of Anthropic’s emerging products across biotech, pharma, and medtech organizations, you’ll help life sciences enterprises accelerate the path from science to patients while advancing the ethical development of AI.
Key responsibilities
• Build and lead a specialized team of Strategic Account Executives covering biotech, pharma, and medtech accounts, setting growth targets by sub-segment and coaching reps through the full sales cycle from outbound to close
• Design and oversee sales strategies tailored to each sub-segment’s distinct procurement cycles - R&D and commercial budgeting in pharma and biotech, product development and quality budgets in medtech, and enterprise IT and digital transformation programs across all three - translating market and trend analysis into account plans and campaigns that meet and exceed team revenue targets
• Identify and prioritize high-potential opportunities across drug discovery, clinical development, regulatory affairs, medical affairs, manufacturing and quality (GxP), pharmacovigilance, and commercial functions, partnering cross-functionally to differentiate Anthropic’s offering for life sciences use cases
• Run a disciplined pipeline and forecasting cadence across the team, managing an evolving sales process to deliver predictable, coachable performance against quota
• Serve as Anthropic’s domain expert across the life sciences value chain - including discovery research, clinical trial operations,