Product Finance & Strategy, Claude Platform, Forecasting & Rhythms San Francisco, CA

Product Finance & Strategy, Claude Platform, Forecasting & Rhythms

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

The Claude Platform (API) is how developers and enterprises build with Claude, directly and through our cloud partners. It runs on a consumption model, and the economics move quickly as new models and capabilities launch, serving costs change, and customer usage scales.

We're looking for a Finance & Strategy Lead to own planning and forecasting for the Claude Platform, run the business reviews that track its performance, and recommend how the products and business should evolve. You'll sit on the Product Finance & Strategy team and partner with leaders from product, engineering, go-to-market, and other finance teams to steer the growth of the business. This is a finance role close to the product: your forecasts and analyses will shape where the business invests and how it grows.

Key responsibilities

• Lead financial planning and analysis for the Claude Platform (API) business across self-serve, enterprise, and cloud partner channels. Set targets for the business and drive interlock with go-to-market partners on targets
• Build and run the rhythm of business for the Claude Platform with product and cross-functional leaders, including monthly executive reviews with clear analyses and actionable insights to grow the business
• Develop and maintain financial models and scenario analyses that show how launches, pricing changes, and commitment structures affect the forecast
• Build business cases for new platform features and products, working with product, engineering, and go-to-market partners
• Serve as a trusted advisor to product and finance leaders, analyzing usage, revenue, and cost data to flag what matters and answer complex questions
• Automate recurring reporting and lead analyses on whether pricing and new business models are working and what to change
• Partner with operations, data science, deal desk, and accounting to ensure new products are billed, reported, and forecasted accurately
• Experience leading annual planning and forecasting for a business or product line, from assumptions through final targets
• Experience building driver-based forecasts for consumption-based or usage-based businesses, including reconciling top-down targets with bottom-up views
• Experience running recurring business reviews with executives, including explaining variances to plan and recommending actions
• Strong financial modeling skills in spreadsheets, and comfort pulling and analyzing your own data in SQL
• Experience shaping pricing, business model, or investment decisions with analysis
• Ability to partner with product and cross-functional teams and explain financial tradeoffs clearly, in writing and in conversation
• Sound judgment with incomplete data, and comfort making a call and revisiting conclusions as you learn more
• Interest in AI and a commitment to Anthropic's mission of building safe, beneficial AI systems

Preferred qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in strategic finance, product finance, FP&A, investment banking, consulting, or a closely related analytical field
• Experience with infrastructure, cloud, or developer platform businesses, and a basic understanding of how compute costs and capacity drive unit economics
• Exposure to pricing APIs, developer tools, or cloud services
• Familiarity with how large language models are served, including token-based pricing and inference cost drivers
• Background in AI, ML, or related technologies

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.

$240,000 - $325,000 USD

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.

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.