Strategic Partner Development, Data & Product Partnerships – Beneficial Deployments

Anthropic•San Francisco, NY

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic's Beneficial Deployments team works to bring Claude to high-impact areas such as global health, life sciences, education and economic mobility, largely through partnerships with the organizations already working in those fields. Many of those partnerships involve data or product partnerships to bring Beneficial Deployment impact to bear. The Strategic Data Partnerships team is responsible for structuring and closing those agreements, and we are hiring a business development lead dedicated to this work. You will support the deal work from ideation through signature: scoping what a partner and Anthropic actually want to do together, designing a structure that works for both sides, negotiating the terms and making sure we honour them afterwards. You will work every day with the Beneficial Deployments partner managers who own these relationships, with our legal team, and with the research and product teams who will put the data or the integration to use. This is not a sales role. It is a deal-making role for someone who enjoys structuring strategic business development, is comfortable with deal strategy & operations, and wants that work to matter beyond the commercial outcome.

Requirements

You care about the public-benefit nature of this work.
8+ years of experience, most of it negotiating and closing agreements – business development, strategic partnerships, licensing, data or content deals, corporate development or comparable.
A deal-making background rather than a sales one.
You have personally led deals from term sheet through signature, including agreements that didn't fit a standard template.
You are comfortable negotiating complex terms related to rights, use restrictions, privacy and security obligations – and working closely with lawyers on both sides of a deal.
You have a track record of working cross-functionally, especially with legal teams and with colleagues who own a relationship or program, and you are effective as the business collaborator in that setting.
You can carry many agreements at once, keep track of what was agreed and stay organized without much structure around you.
You exercise good judgment: you are comfortable saying no or proposing a different shape for a deal, and you can operate with incomplete information.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with nonprofits, foundations, multilateral organizations, universities, health systems or governments as counterparties
Familiarity with health, education or research data and the frameworks that govern it
An understanding of how AI models are developed and evaluated, and of product integrations and APIs
Prior experience at an AI lab, a platform company or a data business

Responsibilities

Structure and close partnerships.
Work with our partner managers and legal team to establish early what a proposed partnership involves – who the partner is and what the scope of the agreement should be – and help decide what to pursue, what to reshape and what to decline.
Partner with partner managers & commercial counsel on structure and risk, and help turn recurring deal patterns into standard structures so that we can move quickly and consistently.
Maintain a clear, current view of the partnership pipeline and communicate status across Beneficial Deployments, legal, research and product.