Enterprise Account Executive, Federal Civilian Sales (Veterans Affairs)
Washington, DCFull-TimeMid-levelCustomer Acquisition
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 an Account Executive at Anthropic, focused primarily on partnering with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, you'll drive the adoption of safe, frontier AI across VA and its healthcare facilities, regional offices, and service centers. You'll leverage your deep understanding of VA's mission areas—from veteran healthcare and benefits administration to memorial affairs and veteran services—and consultative sales expertise to propel revenue growth while becoming a trusted partner to customers, helping them embed and deploy AI while uncovering its full range of capabilities. In collaboration with GTM, product, and marketing teams, you'll help refine our approach to the VA ecosystem while maintaining the highest standards of security and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Drive new business and revenue growth within VA headquarters, VHA, VBA, NCA, and VA Medical Centers, owning the full sales cycle from initial outreach through deployment
- Build and maintain relationships with key decision-makers across VA program offices, VISN leadership, and VA Medical Center directors
- Develop and execute strategic account plans that align with VA priorities and modernization initiatives
- Coordinate closely with cloud service providers, VA IT organizations, and system integrators to ensure successful deployment and integration
- Provide detailed market intelligence and customer feedback to product teams to ensure our offerings meet VA and veteran healthcare requirements
- Take a leadership role in growing our VA presence while maintaining hands-on engagement with key accounts
- Collaborate across teams to ensure coordinated delivery of commitments and maintain appropriate documentation of customer engagements
You may be a good fit if you have
- 7+ years of enterprise sales experience with at least 5 years selling into VA, with a proven track record of driving adoption of emerging technologies
- Deep understanding of VA's organizational structure, mission areas, and technology modernization priorities
- Expertise in the VA healthcare ecosystem, including VHA, VBA, NCA, and the VISN structure
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on sales execution
- Experience navigating VA procurement processes, including agency-specific contracting mechanisms
- Strong track record of exceeding revenue targets in the federal civilian or VA space
- Excellent relationship-building skills across all levels, from clinicians and technical teams to program managers and senior agency leadership
- Proven ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders, including cloud providers, healthcare IT contractors, and system integrators
- A passion for safe and ethical AI development, with the ability to articulate its importance in veteran healthcare and benefits delivery contexts
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
- The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
- For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
How we're different
- We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
- The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
