Head of Deal Desk - International

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's Deal Desk sits at the center of how we turn commercial intent into signed, bookable business. As demand for Claude grows across every region, the deals themselves are getting larger, more structured, and more consequential — and the desk is what keeps them moving quickly without sacrificing pricing discipline, deal quality, or clean handoffs downstream. We already run this well in the Americas. This role builds and leads the equivalent outside it.

You'll own Deal Desk for our international business — EMEA and APAC — and lead a team of three. You'll be the commercial partner sales teams come to when a deal doesn't fit the standard shape: multi-year and consumption structures, non-standard pricing and discounting, complex commit and ramp terms, and the approvals that go with them. You'll make those deals faster to close and cleaner to book, and you'll be the point where regional nuance meets a consistent global standard rather than fragmenting away from it.

You'll partner closely with the global Deal Desk lead to keep one operating model across regions, while adapting it to the realities of selling in markets with different currencies, tax and entity structures, and buying norms. Internally you'll work shoulder to shoulder with Sales, Revenue Operations, Revenue Accounting, Legal, and Finance — translating between what the field needs to win and what the business needs to book cleanly. When those interests pull in different directions, you're often the person who resolves it.

This is a foundational role: you'll establish how Deal Desk operates across our international regions, and you'll hire, develop, and scale the team that runs it. If you want to build the commercial engine for a business growing this fast, in the regions where much of that growth is still ahead of us, this is the seat.

Key responsibilities

Minimum qualifications

• Own Deal Desk for Anthropic's international business across EMEA and APAC — the operating model, the team, and the outcomes
• Lead, hire, and develop a team of three, and scale it as the international business grows
• Serve as the commercial partner to international sales teams on complex and non-standard deals, including pricing, discounting, multi-year and consumption structures, commit and ramp terms, and deal structuring
• Own the deal approval and review process for the region — clear thresholds, fast turnaround, and the right escalation paths — so that speed and pricing discipline aren't traded off against each other
• Partner with the global Deal Desk lead to maintain one consistent operating model across regions, adapting it to regional currency, tax, entity, and buying-norm differences rather than fragmenting from it

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.

• Extensive experience running Deal Desk or revenue operations across international markets, ideally spanning both EMEA and APAC
• Have built or materially scaled a Deal Desk function, rather than only inheriting and running one
• Familiarity with the operational realities of selling internationally — multi-currency, multi-entity, and varied tax and invoicing requirements
• Experience with quote-to-order and order management processes and the handoffs between them

£285,000—£285,000 GBP

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.

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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.