Head of Digital Natives & Startups, ANZ

Sydney · 5+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 9, 2026

At a glance

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.

Anthropic is seeking a Head of Digital Natives & Startups, ANZ to build and lead the go-to-market motion for digital native businesses and startups across Australia and New Zealand.
The role involves growing a team that drives consumption of Claude directly and through cloud partners, while shaping how a dynamic startup ecosystem adopts frontier AI.

Define and execute the ANZ go-to-market strategy for Digital Natives and Startups, covering both new customer acquisition and growth within existing accounts
Build, hire and lead a high-performing sales team across Australia and New Zealand, with clear targets, regular coaching and defined career paths
Own pipeline, forecast and consumption targets for the segment, running a consumption-based sales motion
Build a repeatable motion across the customer lifecycle, from early-stage founders to scaled, high-growth digital natives
Develop strong relationships across the ANZ startup ecosystem, including founders, venture investors, accelerators and developer communities
Partner with cloud providers and our Partnerships team to co-sell and extend our reach in the segment
Collaborate with Product, Marketing, Solutions and Customer Success to adapt our offering and messaging for ANZ, and bring customer feedback back to the business
Represent ANZ priorities to regional and global leadership, and keep local execution aligned with global strategy
Act as an executive sponsor for key customers and communicate Anthropic's trust and safety principles with credibility

15+ years of overall experience selling technology products to enterprise organisations across ANZ market
5+ years of people management experience leading sales teams in the digital native and/or startup segment
Proven success in consumption-based technology sales, such as cloud, API or usage-based SaaS
Experience building a business or team from the ground up in Australia and/or New Zealand
Track record across both customer acquisition and account growth
Strong network and credibility in the ANZ startup and digital native ecosystem
Ability to explain technical products clearly to founders, engineers and executives
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
A field of study relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Location-based hybrid policy expecting staff to be in the office at least 25% of the time