Product Finance & Strategy, Claude Platform, Forecasting & Rhythms

Anthropic•San Francisco, CA

4d•$240,000 - $325,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is hiring a Finance & Strategy Lead on its Product Finance & Strategy team to own planning and forecasting for the Claude Platform (API), run business reviews, and recommend how the products and business should evolve. The Claude Platform enables developers and enterprises to build with Claude directly and through cloud partners. Its consumption-based economics change as new models and capabilities launch, serving costs change, and customer usage scales. The role partners with product, engineering, go-to-market, and finance leaders to guide business growth. It leads financial planning and analysis across self-serve, enterprise, and cloud partner channels; sets business targets; builds forecasts, models, and business cases; and provides analyses to inform investment, pricing, and product decisions. It also establishes recurring business reviews and reporting, and works with operational and finance partners to ensure new products are billed, reported, and forecasted accurately. Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. The role follows a location-based hybrid policy under which staff are currently expected to work from an office at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require more. A bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience is the minimum education requirement; the field of study must be relevant to the role. Required years of experience correlate with the internal job level.

Requirements

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, explaining variances to plan, and recommending actions.
Strong financial modeling skills in spreadsheets and comfort pulling and analyzing data in SQL.
Experience shaping pricing, business model, or investment decisions through analysis.
Ability to partner with product and cross-functional teams and clearly explain financial tradeoffs in writing and conversation.
Sound judgment with incomplete data and comfort making decisions and revisiting conclusions as new information emerges.
Interest in AI and commitment to Anthropic’s mission of building safe, beneficial AI systems.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
A field of study relevant to the role, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Nice To Haves

8 or more 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.

Responsibilities

Lead financial planning and analysis for the Claude Platform (API) across self-serve, enterprise, and cloud partner channels.
Set business targets and coordinate with go-to-market partners to align on targets.
Build and run the Claude Platform’s rhythm of business with product and cross-functional leaders, including monthly executive reviews with clear analyses and actionable insights.
Develop and maintain financial models and scenario analyses showing how launches, pricing changes, and commitment structures affect forecasts.
Build business cases for new platform features and products with product, engineering, and go-to-market partners.
Advise product and finance leaders by analyzing usage, revenue, and cost data, identifying important trends, and answering complex questions.
Automate recurring reporting and analyze whether pricing and new business models are working and what should change.
Partner with operations, data science, deal desk, and accounting to ensure new products are billed, reported, and forecasted accurately.