Field Marketing Manager, Startups

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.

Anthropic is hiring a Field Marketing Manager dedicated to the Startups segment — the fastest-growing customer segment we serve, and one we believe will define how the next generation of AI-native companies adopts and builds with Claude. You will own the field marketing strategy and end-to-end execution for startups in the US, partnering closely with our Startup Sales and Partnerships teams and with the world's leading VCs and accelerators.

This is a builder role. Field Marketing at Anthropic is a small, scrappy team and Startups is greenfield — there is no existing playbook for you to inherit. You will design the event calendar, build the VC partnership motion, run founder dinners and Demo Day activations, and create the playbooks that scale across our startup motion.

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  Own the US Startups field marketing calendar end-to-end — strategy, planning, execution, and measurement

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  Build co-marketing partnerships with tier-1 VCs and accelerators (YC, Lightspeed, Accel, a16z, Sequoia and others), including Demo Day activations and portfolio engagement programs

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  Design and run founder-facing event formats — founder dinners, salons, hackathons, technical workshops, office hours — that build relationships and generate qualified pipeline

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  Partner closely with Startup Sales and BDRs on pre-event targeting, during-event engagement, and post-event follow-up to convert attention into pipeline

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  Build operational playbooks (founder dinner kit, Demo Day activation kit, hackathon kit) that the Field Marketing team can scale across regions and segments

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  Establish baseline metrics, dashboards, and ROI reporting for all startup field programs

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  Be the face of Anthropic in the startup ecosystem — credible with founders, with VCs, and with technical audiences

• 7+ years of experience spanning a blend of Field Marketing, Demand Generation, ABM, Events at B2B technology companies, with at least 2 years in Field Marketing

• Direct startup-segment experience — you have built and run programs targeting startups, founders, and developers as your primary audience, not as an enterprise field marketer who occasionally touches startups

• End-to-end ownership of field marketing events and programs, hands on in both strategy and execution - this is a 0-1 building role with very little foundation in place

• Repeat success across multiple companies — we are looking for a pattern of impact, scaling field or demand generation programs in different environments, not a single-company tour (however strong the brand)

• VC and accelerator ecosystem fluency — existing relationships with tier-1 VCs, knowledge of Demo Day rhythms, comfort in founder rooms

• 0-to-1 builder DNA — you've built a field marketing motion from scratch (or rebuilt one), and you also have scaled-company tenure that grounds you operationally

• Tight sales alignment — you've worked shoulder-to-shoulder with AEs and BDRs on account targeting, pre-event outreach, and post-event follow-up

• Operational rigor — you can stand up vendor management, registration, follow-up workflows, and ROI dashboards without being asked

• Technical credibility — you can review technical event content, brief technical speakers, and hold your own with founder/CTO audiences

• Direct relationships with YC, Lightspeed, Accel, a16z, or Sequoia

• AI/ML field marketing experience (OpenAI, Cohere, Hugging Face, etc.)

• Prior tour at an AI-native or developer-tools startup as an operator

• Speaking, writing, or visible thought leadership in the startup or developer ecosystem

Role-specific policy: For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco office at least 2 days a week. We encourage you to apply even if you might need some flexibility for an interim period of time for relocation.

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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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.

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