Commercial Activation Lead

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 funds delivery partners to help customers adopt Claude, through assessments, workshops, proofs of concept, and full delivery engagements. Our partner request process is the front door for all of it: an account executive (AE) requests partner support, and the request is checked against program rules and matched to a partner. Commercial is the program's highest-volume segment, and the one where a quick introduction and the right match matter most. Automation now drafts the first match and the introduction, and a vendor delivery team handles day-to-day follow-up and tracker updates. What's left is the work that needs a person sellers trust. You'll be the one Activations contact for US Commercial sellers once a request is in, from submission to a partner on a signed statement of work (SOW). Partner Sales Managers (PSMs) attach the partner and own the opportunity, and at their volume they move on to the next deal. You'll own the follow-through: matching and re-matching, getting AE and customer introductions to happen, handling exception requests, and working the special cases that don't fit the standard path. Decision rights are clear: the program lead sets program rules, targets, and exception policy; you apply them on Commercial requests, decide what the rules already cover, and bring the rest with a recommendation. We're looking for a partner seller or channel operator whom sellers and partners trust, who is comfortable owning a high-volume book, and who keeps following up until each request is closed. Success in th