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$356k – $436k per year
Location
Remote/Hybrid (Paris, France)
Seniority
Staff · 15+ years exp
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Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence safety and research company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, among them the siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei. It develops the Claude family of large language models and ships them through a consumer assistant, an enterprise developer platform and the Claude Code agentic coding tool, alongside open standards such as the Model Context Protocol. Incorporated as a public benefit corporation and headquartered in San Francisco, the company concentrates on interpretability, alignment and reliability research and counts Google and Amazon among its largest investors.

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 Anthropic's Public Sector Sales Lead for France, you will be the face of Anthropic to the French State. This is a founding, zero-to-one role: there is no public sector team in France today, and you will build our strategy, our routes to market and our first strategic relationships from the ground up. Reporting to our EMEA South leadership, you will lead the adoption of safe, frontier AI across central government, starting with the largest ministries. You will work hand in hand with our Public Policy lead in Paris, because in few companies is policy as central to the mission as it is at Anthropic, and with Partnerships, Legal, Security and Product to put in place the commercial and compliance frameworks the State needs in order to work with us at scale.

This is a senior individual contributor role. We expect you to have run a public sector business and led teams, and to be energised by stepping back into a hands-on seat where you build it yourself and where the size of your team says nothing about the size of your scope. In the first year, success is measured less by a large number and more by putting Anthropic on the map with the French State: a clear strategy, the right foundations and our first strategic agreements.

Responsibilities

  • Define and own Anthropic's public sector go-to-market strategy for France: where we play first, how we win, and what we need to build to get there
  • Be the senior face of Anthropic to the French State, building trusted relationships with ministerial cabinets, senior officials and digital and technology leaders across the largest ministries, including defence, finance and justice
  • Own the full sales cycle on our first strategic public sector opportunities, from first engagement through procurement route, close, deployment and expansion
  • Work with Partnerships, Legal and Finance to put in place the routes to market the State needs, including resale and partner channels, framework agreements and central purchasing bodies such as UGAP
  • Partner day to day with our Public Policy lead in France so that commercial and policy engagement reinforce each other, and stay aligned with French and European AI strategy and regulation
  • Lead the conversation with customers on data sovereignty, security and compliance (for example SecNumCloud and the State's cloud doctrine), and work with Security, Legal and Product on how we meet those requirements
  • Prove value with customers alongside a shared Applied AI architect, cloud providers and systems integrators, doing much of the groundwork yourself in the early stages
  • Learn from and contribute to our UK and US public sector teams, bringing what works to France and sharing what you learn
  • Create the playbooks, references and operating rhythm that will let us scale a public sector team in France over time

You may be a good fit if you have

  • 15+ years in enterprise technology sales, including significant time running a public sector business unit or leading sales teams that sell to French central government
  • The appetite to move from a leadership role into a hands-on senior individual contributor role with no team at the outset
  • Evidence that you thrive building from zero: a new market, a new business line or an early-stage company, where systems, processes and support were not yet in place
  • A track record of landing large, complex and genuinely transformative agreements with major ministries, as the person leading the deal
  • A deep, senior network across central government, and the credibility to engage at director and cabinet level as well as with technical teams
  • Practical command of French public procurement, including tenders, framework agreements, central purchasing bodies and partner or resale routes
  • Real expertise in data sovereignty, security and compliance requirements in the French State, and experience leading those conversations with customers
  • Experience of, or a clear aptitude for, working closely with public policy or government affairs colleagues
  • Ownership and resilience: you treat what is missing as something to build, and you bring colleagues with you to build it
  • The technical curiosity to learn our products in depth and hold credible conversations with both engineering leaders and senior officials
  • Fluent French and English, with excellent written and spoken communication in both
  • Willingness to go through French security clearance (habilitation) should specific accounts require it 
  • A genuine commitment to safe and beneficial AI, and the ability to articulate why it matters for public institutions

À propos du poste

En tant que Responsable des ventes secteur public d'Anthropic pour la France, vous incarnerez Anthropic auprès de l'État français. Il s'agit d'un poste fondateur, à construire de zéro : il n'existe aujourd'hui aucune équipe secteur public en France, et vous bâtirez notre stratégie, nos voies d'accès au marché et nos premières relations stratégiques en partant d'une page blanche. Ce poste est rattaché à la direction EMEA Sud. Vous piloterez l'adoption d'une IA de pointe et sûre au sein de l'administration centrale, en commençant par les plus grands ministères. Vous travaillerez main dans la main avec notre responsable des affaires publiques à Paris - dans peu d'entreprises les politiques publiques sont aussi centrales à la mission que chez Anthropic - ainsi qu'avec les équipes Partenariats, Juridique, Sécurité et Produit, afin de mettre en place les cadres commerciaux et de conformité dont l'État a besoin pour travailler avec nous à grande échelle.

Il s'agit d'un poste senior de contribution individuelle. Nous attendons de vous que vous ayez dirigé une activité secteur public et encadré des équipes, et que la perspective de revenir à un poste pleinement opérationnel vous enthousiasme : un poste où vous construisez vous-même, et où la taille de votre équipe ne dit rien de l'étendue de votre périmètre. La première année, la réussite se mesurera moins à un grand chiffre qu'à votre capacité à installer Anthropic auprès de l'État français : une stratégie claire, les bonnes fondations et nos premiers accords stratégiques.

Responsabilités

  • Définir et porter la stratégie de mise sur le marché d'Anthropic pour le secteur public en France : nos premiers terrains d'action, nos leviers de succès et ce qu'il nous faut construire pour y parvenir
  • Incarner Anthropic au plus haut niveau auprès de l'État français, en nouant des relations de confiance avec les cabinets ministériels, les cadres dirigeants de l'administration et les responsables du numérique et de la technologie des plus grands ministères, dont la défense, les finances et la justice
  • Piloter l'intégralité du cycle de vente sur nos premières opportunités stratégiques dans le secteur public, du premier contact au choix de la voie de passation, jusqu'à la signature, au déploiement et à l'extension
  • Travailler avec les équipes Partenariats, Juridique et Finance pour mettre en place les voies d'accès au marché dont l'État a besoin : canaux de revente et de partenariat, accords-cadres et centrales d'achat telles que l'UGAP
  • Collaborer au quotidien avec notre responsable des affaires publiques en France, pour que les démarches commerciales et politiques se renforcent mutuellement, en cohérence avec la stratégie et la réglementation française et européenne en matière d'IA
  • Mener les échanges clients sur la souveraineté des données, la sécurité et la conformité (par exemple SecNumCloud et la doctrine « cloud au centre »), et travailler avec les équipes Sécurité, Juridique et Produit sur la façon dont nous répondons à ces exigences
  • Démontrer la valeur auprès des clients en vous appuyant sur une expertise d'architecture Applied AI mutualisée, sur les fournisseurs cloud et sur les intégrateurs, en réalisant vous-même une grande part du travail de terrain dans les premiers temps
  • Apprendre de nos équipes secteur public au Royaume-Uni et aux États-Unis et contribuer à leur travail, en important en France ce qui fonctionne et en partageant vos enseignements
  • Créer les playbooks, les références clients et le rythme opérationnel qui nous permettront de faire grandir une équipe secteur public en France

Ce poste peut vous correspondre si vous réunissez

  • Plus de 15 ans dans la vente de technologies aux grandes organisations, dont une période significative à la tête d'une activité secteur public ou à l'encadrement d'équipes commerciales à destination de l'administration centrale française
  • L'envie de passer d'un poste d'encadrement à un poste senior pleinement opérationnel, en contribution individuelle et sans équipe au départ
  • Un parcours qui montre que vous vous épanouissez en construisant à partir de zéro : un nouveau marché, une nouvelle ligne d'activité ou une entreprise à ses débuts, là où les systèmes, les processus et les soutiens n'existaient pas encore
  • Des accords majeurs, complexes et réellement transformateurs conclus avec de grands ministères à votre actif, en étant la personne à la tête de la négociation
  • Un réseau dense et de haut niveau au sein de l'administration centrale, et la crédibilité nécessaire pour échanger au niveau des directions et des cabinets comme avec les équipes techniques
  • Une maîtrise concrète de la commande publique française : appels d'offres, accords-cadres, centrales d'achat et voies de partenariat ou de revente
  • Une véritable expertise des exigences de souveraineté des données, de sécurité et de conformité au sein de l'État français, et l'expérience de ces échanges avec les clients
  • L'expérience - ou une aptitude manifeste - du travail en étroite collaboration avec les équipes affaires publiques ou relations institutionnelles
  • Le sens de la responsabilité et la ténacité : ce qui manque est pour vous quelque chose à construire, et vous embarquez vos collègues dans cette construction
  • La curiosité technique nécessaire pour apprendre nos produits en profondeur et tenir des échanges crédibles aussi bien avec les responsables d'ingénierie qu'avec les responsables publics de haut niveau
  • Un français et un anglais courants, avec une excellente expression écrite et orale dans les deux langues
  • La disponibilité pour engager une procédure d'habilitation de sécurité si certains comptes l'exigent
  • Un engagement sincère en faveur d'une IA sûre et bénéfique, et la capacité d'expliquer pourquoi cela compte pour les institutions publiques

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:

€310.000—€380.000 EUR

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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links-visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

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.

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