Account Executive, Public Sector (India)
Bangalore, IndiaFull-TimeMid-levelAccounts / Finance
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.
Account Executive, Public Sector - India
- As an India Public Sector Account Executive at Anthropic, you'll drive the adoption of safe, frontier AI within the Indian government and public sector space, establishing and growing our presence in this strategic market. You'll leverage your consultative sales expertise and deep understanding of the Indian public sector landscape to propel revenue growth while becoming a trusted partner to customers, helping them embed and deploy AI while uncovering its full range of capabilities. In collaboration with GTM, product, policy, and marketing teams, you'll help define our market entry strategy and value proposition for the Indian public sector.
About Anthropic
- Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our customers and for society as a whole. Our interdisciplinary team has experience across ML, physics, policy, business and product.
Responsibilities
- Lead Anthropic's market entry and expansion in the Indian public sector, establishing our presence and building relationships with key stakeholders across central and state government departments, ministries, and agencies
- Own the full sales cycle for Indian public sector opportunities, from initial outreach through to successful deployment, with a focus on building long-term strategic partnerships
- Navigate the unique procurement requirements, security standards, and compliance frameworks specific to Indian government technology adoption, including GeM (Government e-Marketplace) and other procurement channels
- Collaborate with policy teams to ensure alignment with Indian government AI strategies, the IndiaAI Mission, and Digital India initiatives
- Engage actively with government-led AI initiatives, including participation in forums like the India AI Impact Summit and state-level AI conferences
- Design and execute innovative sales strategies tailored to the Indian public sector environment, meeting and exceeding revenue targets while maintaining strong relationships with procurement teams and decision-makers
- Provide market intelligence and feedback to product teams to ensure our offerings meet Indian public sector requirements, use cases, and regulatory considerations
- Build and maintain relationships with relevant systems integrators (including TCS, Infosys, Wipro), technology partners, and government digital transformation partners in the Indian market
- Develop and document best practices for Indian public sector engagement, creating playbooks that can scale our presence in the market
- Serve as a leader within the broader public sector team, sharing insights and collaborating on cross-market opportunities
You may be a good fit if you have
- 12+ years of enterprise sales experience in the Indian public sector, with a proven track record of driving adoption of emerging technologies across central and state government departments
- Deep understanding of Indian government procurement processes (including GeM, tender processes), security requirements, and technology adoption frameworks
- Experience navigating India's regulatory environment, including data localization requirements, IT Act compliance, and emerging AI governance frameworks
- Demonstrated ability to build and grow new market segments, with potential to develop into a leadership role as our India operations scale
- Strong track record of managing complex sales cycles and securing strategic deals in the public sector, with experience in both central and state government engagements
- Experience navigating multiple stakeholders across government departments and ministries, building consensus and providing innovative solutions
- Excellent communication skills and ability to present confidently to all levels, from technical teams to senior government officials and secretaries
- Strategic thinking combined with hands-on execution capabilities
- Ability to work independently while maintaining strong collaboration with global teams
- Comfort operating in a dynamic, high-growth environment with evolving regulatory frameworks
- A passion for safe and ethical AI development, with the ability to articulate its importance in the public sector context, particularly for inclusive development and governance transformation
- Fluency in English required; proficiency in Hindi or other regional languages is a plus
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.
