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 building a global reseller program, and Japan and Korea are its first phase. Japan already has significant partner-led activity around Claude, and we're now working with a small number of strategic reseller partners, leading Japan systems integrators and cloud service partners to bring that into a formal program.
You'll be the local owner of these partner relationships in Japan. Our partners will look to you for everything that makes the channel work day to day onboarding, deal registration, enablement, billing and contracting questions, escalations and our internal teams will look to you for what is actually happening in the market. You'll work closely with the local sales team and the central program team, but much of the process for running the channel in Japan doesn't exist yet, and building it will be a large part of the job in the first year.
This is an early role in a new market for a program we expect to grow well beyond its first two countries. The habits you establish with our first partners in Japan will shape how the program works everywhere else.
Key responsibilities- Own the day-to-day relationships with Anthropic's strategic reseller partners in Japan, acting as their primary local point of contact
- Support partner onboarding end to end, from diligence and agreement execution through readiness ahead of launch, including for partners who join the program after launch
- Own deal registration and pipeline discipline with partners, making sure registrations are submitted and validated, conflicts are cleared, and named end-customer reporting is complete on every deal
- Coordinate partner certification and enablement with the central enablement lead, including Japan-language delivery and ongoing recertification
- Run day-to-day partner support in market, including billing, contracting, and general queries
- Manage Anthropic's counterpart relationships with the cloud hyperscalers AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure in Japan, including the Marketplace private offer motion that reseller deals run through
- Work with the central program team on program governance, margin mechanics, and escalations
- Build the local processes and working rhythms the channel needs where none exist yet, and feed what you learn from partners back to the program team
- Experience managing channel or reseller partner relationships in enterprise software or cloud
- Experience working with large Japan systems integrators or cloud managed service providers, and an understanding of how partner-led selling works in Japan enterprise, public sector, and financial services accounts
- Working knowledge of channel program mechanics such as deal registration and partner tiering
- Full professional fluency in Japan and professional working proficiency in English, written and spoken, including the ability to deliver enablement to partners in Japan
- Comfort joining a new program early: hands-on, structured, and able to build process where none exists yet
- Are excited about Anthropic's mission to develop AI that is safe and beneficial
- Experience with cloud marketplace resale, particularly AWS Marketplace private offers, or with AWS partner teams more generally
- Familiarity with margin and rebate mechanics in a partner program
- Experience bringing existing, informal partner activity into a structured program, or joining a partner program at or before launch
- Experience on the systems integrator or managed service provider side of a vendor relationship, as well as the vendor side
- Familiarity with how enterprises and public sector organizations in Japan are evaluating and adopting AI
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.
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.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience in channel management, reseller partnerships, or business development within the Japanese technology market
- Proven experience recruiting and managing Japanese reseller and distributor partners and driving revenue through them
- Deep understanding of Japanese enterprise sales cycles, decision-making processes, and business etiquette
- Native or business-level Japanese language skills
- Working knowledge of reseller economics, including margin structures, deal registration, and incentive programs
- Experience selling enterprise software, cloud services, or AI/ML technologies in the Japanese market
- Experience managing channel conflict and maintaining rules of engagement across direct and partner sales
- Exceptional relationship-building skills with partner executives and sales teams
- Strong analytical skills with experience in business planning, forecasting, and performance measurement
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Experience building a reseller program from an early stage
- Familiarity with cloud marketplace resale and private offers, such as AWS Marketplace or Google Cloud Marketplace
- Working knowledge of large language models and the enterprise AI landscape
- Business-level English for collaboration with teams outside Japan
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The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Anthropic and has not been reviewed or approved by Anthropic.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Pay is positioned as top-of-market for many technical roles through a mix of high base pay, equity, and occasional bonuses/signing incentives. Benefits like substantial monthly stipends and employer-paid protections further strengthen perceived total rewards.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is described as comprehensive across medical, dental, and vision, with additional mental-health support. Coverage is framed as robust for employees and dependents, which can materially increase the value of the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is described as notably generous, alongside fertility coverage and other family-oriented supports. These elements broaden the rewards package beyond cash compensation and can improve retention for caregivers.
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Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
