Enterprise Account Executive, Manufacturing & Automotive
Job Overview
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 Enterprise Account Executive, Manufacturing & Automotive based in Tokyo, you'll drive the adoption of safe, frontier AI technology across Japan's manufacturing and automotive industries — two of the largest and most technically sophisticated sectors in the world. You'll own the full sales cycle from prospecting to closing, working with senior leaders at OEMs, tier-1 suppliers, and industrial manufacturers to help them accelerate R&D, optimize production operations, and transform engineering and knowledge work with Anthropic's AI solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Own and exceed revenue targets by winning new accounts and expanding relationships across Japan's major automotive OEMs, tier-1 and tier-2 suppliers, heavy industry manufacturers, electronics manufacturers, and industrial equipment companies
- Build and execute territory plans, identifying high-value opportunities across passenger vehicle and commercial vehicle OEMs, automotive parts suppliers, industrial machinery manufacturers, semiconductor and electronics producers, and materials/chemicals companies
- Lead consultative sales processes with senior stakeholders — including chief engineers, R&D directors, heads of digital transformation, manufacturing engineering leaders, connected-vehicle and software-defined vehicle (SDV) leads, and plant operations executives — positioning AI as a driver for engineering productivity, design and simulation acceleration, supply chain intelligence, factory floor optimization, and in-vehicle/product experiences
- Orchestrate internal teams (Product, Engineering, Applied AI, Partnerships) to deliver solutions tailored to the rigorous safety, quality, and reliability standards of automotive and manufacturing workflows, while respecting IP protection and data sovereignty requirements
- Stay deeply informed about trends across Japan's manufacturing and automotive sectors and global industry shifts — including electrification, SDV, autonomous driving, Industry 4.0, and smart factory initiatives — ensuring Anthropic is consistently positioned as a relevant and forward-thinking partner to companies navigating rapid technological transformation
You may be a good fit if you have:
- 8+ years of enterprise sales experience in Japan with significant exposure to the manufacturing or automotive industry — whether selling directly into OEMs, tier-1 suppliers, industrial manufacturers, or adjacent technology partners (PLM, CAD/CAE, MES, industrial software, cloud/data platforms) within the ecosystem
- A genuine understanding of how product development, manufacturing operations, and engineering organizations work in Japan, including the distinct dynamics of keiretsu relationships, long-cycle OEM–supplier partnerships, and the coexistence of traditional monozukuri culture with digital transformation initiatives
- A track record of building trusted relationships with technically sophisticated engineering and manufacturing teams, navigating organizations where chief engineers, R&D leaders, and plant/operations executives hold significant influence over technology decisions alongside traditional IT leadership
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles typical of automotive and manufacturing enterprises — where decisions often involve multiple business units, rigorous POC and evaluation processes, and long-horizon strategic planning
- Proven experience exceeding revenue targets by identifying and closing opportunities across a diverse portfolio of manufacturing and automotive companies with varying scales, business models, and digital maturity
- A knack for bringing order to chaos and an enthusiastic "roll up your sleeves" mentality — you are a true team player who thrives in ambiguous, startup-like environments
- A strategic, analytical approach to identifying opportunities within Japan's manufacturing and automotive sectors combined with relationship-focused execution that earns trust with engineering, manufacturing, and business leaders alike
- A passion for and/or experience with advanced AI systems. You feel strongly about ensuring frontier AI systems are developed safely and responsibly for broad benefit
- Excellent communication skills in both Japanese and English
What We Offer
- Competitive base salary and commission structure commensurate with experience
- Equity participation
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Hybrid work model with flexibility
- Access to cutting-edge AI technology and world-class research team
Logistics
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
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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.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process