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
Anthropic is looking for a Product Partnerships lead with deep experience in the semiconductor ecosystem. This is not a Sales role. You'll work with product, research, engineering, legal, and go-to-market teams to shape our platform strategy in semiconductors, source and structure the right partners, and land the commercial and technical agreements that let Anthropic and the industry build together.
You'll be joining a small, senior team that operates at the intersection of frontier AI research and complex commercial deal-making. Semiconductors will be your primary vertical and where we expect you to spend the large majority of your time. That said, our Product Partnerships team is deliberately built of generalist deal-makers — everyone on the team can pick up a deal in an unfamiliar domain and run it end to end. As Anthropic's priorities evolve, we'll want someone who's genuinely excited to be thrown at a high-priority partnership in another domain — life sciences, code, or something we haven't thought of yet — and close it.
Responsibilities
• Research, source, structure, negotiate, and close strategic collaborations across the semiconductor stack, while shaping internal priorities for the vertical
• Serve as the internal expert on semiconductor partnerships for research, product, and leadership, translating between silicon-industry realities and Anthropic's roadmap
• Navigate complex counterparty organizations — R&D, legal, IP/licensing, and procurement — to get non-standard contracts and research agreements over the line
• Structure commercial software, IP, and technology-access agreements with terms that work for both sides and preserve optionality for how the collaboration can grow
• Coordinate cross-functionally across research, product, engineering, corp dev, policy, finance, and legal to scope, evaluate, approve, and implement partnerships end to end
• Support executive-level engagements with strategic counterparties, including preparing briefings, deal frameworks, and negotiation strategy
• Flex into other Product Partnerships verticals as company priorities shift, owning commercial deals outside semiconductors when that's where the highest-leverage work is
You may be a good fit if you have
• 8+ years in strategic partnerships, business development, technology licensing, or corporate development, with a meaningful portion of that spent inside or directly adjacent to the semiconductor industry
• Range as a deal-maker — you've closed deals across more than one industry or deal type, you ramp fast on new domains, and you'd be energized (not frustrated) if we aske