
Customer Success Manager
Anthropic · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- On site
- Full-time
- $120,000 / year
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job highlights
- Lead customer success in India for AI adoption.
- Build strategic partnerships with complex clients.
- Drive AI usage and maximize investment value.
- Shape product and go-to-market strategies.
- Pioneer regional processes and build brand.
About the role
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
Join Anthropic's Customer Success team as our first India-based Customer Success Manager as we pioneer the future of enterprise AI adoption. As a Customer Success Manager at Anthropic, you'll be the strategic partner and trusted advisor to our most complex customers across India helping them harness the full potential of all our Claude capabilities - API, Claude for Enterprise, and Claude Code.
You'll develop genuine partnerships with customers, gaining a deep understanding of their business objectives, strategic direction, AI vision, and technical needs. You'll draw on both your business acumen and technical expertise to serve as a strategic advisor throughout their journey with us.
In partnership with the broader account team you will help customers identify the right Claude capabilities for their specific business objectives, working closely with them to provide best practices and guidance while supporting them as their usage (consumption & seat based) grows and evolves.
Your role focuses on helping customers scale their usage effectively, implement change management strategies, optimize use cases, and maximize the value of their investment through expanded use cases across their organization. The insights you gather from your customers will directly inform our research priorities, product development, and go-to-market strategies — making you a key voice in shaping how we build and deliver ongoing value as a business.
As the founding CSM in India, you'll be a pioneer - helping to build regional processes, establishing new customer relationships, and representing Anthropic's brand in a high-growth market. You'll operate with significant autonomy while maintaining strong alignment with global teams, requiring someone who thrives in ambiguous environments and can work effectively across time zones.
Responsibilities
- Build trusting, strategic relationships with key Indian and other APJ customer decision makers to understand their business and objectives, identifying opportunities for optimization and expansion
- Become an expert in Anthropic's products across API, Claude for Enterprise, and Claude Code, understanding the technical nuances and best practices for each to guide customers to the right solutions
- Leverage your deep knowledge of the customer and regional nuances to proactively drive usage planning, understanding current and future consumption/ adoption and how it creates realized value for the customer
- Monitor usage patterns and identify optimization opportunities, proactively addressing underutilization across both our consumption-based and seat-based products to drive full value from contracted commitments
- Serve as the customer’s thought partner, enhancing their knowledge of Claude products by socializing Anthropic’s product roadmap, driving awareness on new products and engaging Product PMs as the voice of Indian and APAJ customers
- Document and quantify customer value realized through business outcomes, ROI, and impact metrics to build compelling internal business cases for continued and expanded investment
- Identify potential use cases and lines of business not currently onboarded, partnering with customers to discover new applications for Claude across different departments, teams, and workflows
- Develop and execute change management strategies to drive end-user adoption and maximize value within customer organizations, including Train the Trainer programs, Center of Excellence development, and organizational enablement
- Own the customer experience across their lifecycle — managing comprehensive account and success plans grounded in the customer's business objectives, conducting Quarterly Business Reviews, and serving as the primary conduit between the customer and Anthropic
- Build Anthropic's brand and customer relationships as the first in-region CS presence, developing where needed, India-specific processes, playbooks, and best practices that account for regional business cultures
You May Be a Good Fit If You Have
- 10+ years of experience in customer-facing roles (Customer Success,Solutions Architect, Solutions/ Functional Consultant, Success Engineer or similar)
- Experience driving success across both consumption-based and seat-based business models, with understanding of different expansion levers and success metrics for each
- Technical fluency with ability to understand and articulate AI/ML concepts, API integrations, and software implementation patterns
- Experience explaining and demonstrating technical products to various audiences
- Strategic mindset to identify growth opportunities and translate them into actionable expansion plans
- Cross-functional collaborator who represents the customer in a positive, proactive manner, rallying everyone around paths forward that solve customer needs
- Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple customer relationships
- Passion for AI and interest in responsible development of advanced systems
- Experience working in and building a growing region, while navigating across time zones with US-based headquarters
- A knack for bringing order to chaos and an enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves'' mentality. You are a true team player
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
Key skills/competency
- Customer Success Management
- AI/ML Concepts
- API Integrations
- Enterprise Software
- Strategic Account Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Project Management
- Change Management
- Business Acumen
- Customer Relationship Management
Skills & topics
- Customer Success Manager
- AI
- Machine Learning
- API
- Enterprise
- SaaS
- Account Management
- Client Relations
- Technical Sales
- Business Development
- Customer Success
- Solutions Architect
- Consultant
- India
- APJ
- AI Safety
- Responsible AI
- Claude
- Generative AI
- B2B
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight 10+ years in customer-facing roles, AI/ML understanding, and experience with consumption/seat-based models.
- Showcase strategic thinking: Emphasize experience in identifying growth opportunities and actionable expansion plans.
- Demonstrate AI passion: Mention your interest in responsible AI development and advanced systems.
- Prepare for ambiguity: Articulate your ability to thrive in evolving environments and work across time zones.
- Understand Anthropic's mission: Align your application with their goal of safe and beneficial AI.
Technical preparation
Behavioral questions
Frequently asked questions
- What are the key responsibilities of a Customer Success Manager at Anthropic India?
- As the first India-based Customer Success Manager at Anthropic, your key responsibilities will include building strategic relationships with Indian customers, becoming an expert in Anthropic's Claude capabilities, driving customer usage and value realization, and contributing to regional process development. You'll also act as a thought partner to customers and provide feedback to Anthropic's product and go-to-market teams.
- What kind of experience is Anthropic looking for in a Customer Success Manager?
- Anthropic is seeking candidates with over 10 years of experience in customer-facing roles such as Customer Success, Solutions Architect, or Consultant. They are also looking for technical fluency in AI/ML concepts and API integrations, strategic thinking, strong project management skills, and experience in working with both consumption-based and seat-based business models. Experience in building a presence in a growing region and comfort with ambiguity are also highly valued.
- How does Anthropic foster a collaborative environment for its Customer Success team?
- Anthropic emphasizes a highly collaborative approach, viewing AI research as a team effort. They host frequent research discussions and value communication skills highly. As the founding CSM in India, you'll maintain strong alignment with global teams while operating with significant autonomy, contributing insights that directly inform research and product development.
- What is Anthropic's policy on AI usage for applicants?
- Anthropic has a policy regarding the use of AI in the application process. Candidates are encouraged to learn about this policy, which can typically be found on their careers page or within application instructions. This ensures transparency and fairness in the hiring process.
- Does Anthropic offer visa sponsorship for this Customer Success Manager role?
- Yes, Anthropic does offer visa sponsorship. While they cannot guarantee sponsorship for every role or candidate, they will make every reasonable effort to secure a visa if an offer is extended, and they work with an immigration lawyer to facilitate this process.
- What is the hybrid work policy at Anthropic for this role?
- Anthropic has a location-based hybrid policy, currently expecting staff to be in the office at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more frequent office presence. Specific details for this Customer Success Manager role in India would be discussed during the hiring process.
- How does Anthropic ensure the safety of its applicants regarding potential scams?
- Anthropic takes applicant safety seriously. Recruiters will only contact candidates from official @anthropic.com email addresses. They also caution against emails from other domains and state that legitimate recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information. Applicants are advised to visit the official Anthropic careers website for verified job openings if unsure about communications.