Cybersecurity Sales Specialist
About the role
AI is changing what security teams can do. Claude can find and help fix vulnerabilities in code at a pace that wasn't possible a year ago, and we want defenders to have that advantage first. As a Cybersecurity Sales Specialist, you'll own Anthropic's security business across the accounts in one of our business units, such as financial services, healthcare and life sciences, or technology. You'll lead the security strategy with CISOs, partnering with the Account Executives who own the accounts in your industry to drive opportunities and put Claude to work on their hardest security problems.
You'll help decide how we sell security, what we learn from customers, and how that shapes our products. The work matters to our mission: a safe transition through transformative AI depends on the people who defend critical systems being able to use it well.
Key responsibilities
Build and close security business, from the first conversation with a CISO's team through contract and expansion, working with the Account Executive who owns each relationship
Create security pipeline with the Account Executives in your industry, from their existing accounts and through outbound to security leaders, events and joint work with partners
Lead with the customer's problem: finding and fixing vulnerabilities, application security, security operations, and deploying AI agents securely
Partner with your Applied AI engineers on discovery, proofs of concept and architecture, and know when to bring them in
Guide customers through security reviews, verification for security use cases, and procurement
Teach the Account Executives in your business unit to spot and qualify security opportunities
Bring what you hear from security teams back to our product, safeguards and marketing teams
Minimum qualifications
Experience selling or supporting the sale of cybersecurity products or services to enterprise customers
Deep experience in at least one security domain, such as application security, vulnerability management, security operations, cloud, data, identity or endpoint security
Ability to hold credible conversations with a CISO, an application security lead and a security engineer about how their work gets done
A consultative approach to selling: you understand the problem before you propose anything, and you're honest about what a product can't do
A commitment to making AI systems safe and beneficial
Preferred qualifications
5 or more years in sales or other customer-facing roles, including 3 or more years selling or supporting cybersecurity products or services for enterprise customers
Experience closing complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise deals where the security organization was the buyer or the deciding approver
Experience as a specialist alongside account teams while carrying your own number, and the ability to say exactly what you did to win the deal
Experience building pipeline where there's no playbook yet, through outbound and partners rather than inherited accounts
A record of leading through influence, not authority: Account Executives bring you into their accounts because you help them win
Experience selling security in one of the industries we cover, and an understanding of how security is bought and regulated there
Experience selling AI, developer or data platform products to technical buyers
Hands-on experience as a security practitioner or sales engineer before moving into sales
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.
Annual Salary:
$380,000—$450,000 USD