Head of State and Local Government Sales

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>As the Head of State and Local Government Sales at Anthropic, you'll lead and scale our state and local government sales organization to drive the adoption of safe, frontier AI across state agencies, counties, cities, and other local government entities throughout the United States. You'll leverage your deep understanding of state and local government operations and proven sales leadership expertise to build a high-performing team while establishing strategic relationships with key states, municipalities, and public sector partners. Working closely with GTM, product, and marketing teams, you'll define and execute our go-to-market strategy for the state and local government sector while maintaining the highest standards of security and compliance.</p> <h2>Key responsibilities</h2> <ul> <li>Build, lead, and scale a state and local government sales team, including hiring top talent, setting clear performance expectations, and providing ongoing coaching and development</li> <li>Develop and execute comprehensive go-to-market strategies for state and local government, including territory design, market segmentation, competitive positioning, and revenue forecasting across a large and geographically distributed customer base</li> <li>Own overall state and local government revenue targets and ensure team performance against quotas, while providing visibility into pipeline health and deal progression</li> <li>Establish and cultivate relationships with governors' offices, state CIOs, agency executives, and city and county leadership, serv