Industry Principal, Insurance

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NYSenior$360,000 - $550,0008+ years

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

As the Insurance Industry Advisor at Anthropic, you will serve as the technical and strategic face of Claude to the world’s leading insurance carriers, brokers, reinsurers, and insurtech companies. You’ll combine deep insurance domain expertise with technical credibility to help customers envision, architect, and realize transformational AI solutions—while building Anthropic’s reputation as the trusted AI platform for one of the most complex and regulated industries in the world.

This role sits at the intersection of technical leadership, customer engagement, product strategy, and internal enablement. You’ll work directly with CIOs, CTOs, Chief Underwriting Officers, Chief Claims Officers, and technology leaders at major insurers and brokers to design solutions that address their most critical challenges—from underwriting automation and claims processing to fraud detection and customer experience. Your insights will flow directly to Product and Research, shaping Claude’s roadmap for insurance. Equally important, you’ll enable Anthropic’s GTM teams with deep domain expertise, thought leadership content, and strategic guidance.

With AI poised to transform insurance operations and the industry seeking partners who understand their unique challenges, you'll play a pivotal role in establishing Anthropic as the AI platform of choice for insurers worldwide.

Responsibilities:

Technical Evangelism & Thought Leadership: Represent Anthropic's technical vision to the insurance industry through conference keynotes, executive briefings, whitepapers, and industry advisory boards. Establish Claude as the leading AI platform for P&C, Life, and Reinsurance markets.
Strategic Customer Engagement: Serve as executive technical sponsor for strategic insurance accounts, engaging CIOs, CTOs, Chief Underwriting Officers, Chief Claims Officers, and Heads of AI/ML on enterprise AI strategy. Build peer-to-peer relationships that position Anthropic as a strategic transformation partner.
Product Partnership & Roadmap Influence: Translate customer requirements and competitive dynamics into product priorities. Partner closely with Product and Research to develop insurance-specific capabilities including model governance, explainability, audit logging, and regulatory compliance features.
Pricing & Commercial Strategy: Contribute to pricing and packaging decisions with insurance market insight. Understand value drivers for different insurance segments, competitive positioning, and deal structuring that aligns with how insurers buy technology.
Internal Enablement & Advocacy: Train and uplift Anthropic's GTM teams on insurance domain expertise, use cases, and buyer personas. Create enablement content, conduct training sessions, and serve as the internal authority on all things insurance. Influence without authority across the organization.
Regulatory & Compliance Navigation: Partner internally and externally to develop thought leadership regarding AI governance frameworks aligned with state insurance regulations, NAIC guidelines, and international requirements. Help customers understand model risk management, explainability requirements, and responsible AI practices for insurance.
Ecosystem Partnership: Build technical relationships with GSIs (Deloitte, Accenture, McKinsey), cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), and insurance technology vendors (Guidewire, Duck Creek, Majesco).

You may be a good fit if you have:

Have 20+ years of experience in technology and/or business roles with at least 8 years in senior leadership positions (CTO, VP Engineering, Chief Architect, Chief Underwriting Officer, Head of Claims Technology, Distinguished Engineer) in insurance
Have deep domain expertise across multiple insurance segments—P&C (personal and commercial lines), Life & Annuities, or Reinsurance—with hands-on experience building or operating mission-critical systems
Have a strong understanding of AI/ML technologies including large language models, with the ability to engage credibly on technical architecture, model behavior, and system design
Have established executive networks across insurance technology leadership (CIOs, CTOs, Chief Underwriting Officers) and credibility as a thought leader in the industry
Have deep knowledge of insurance regulatory requirements (state insurance regulations, NAIC model laws, Solvency II, Lloyd's requirements) and experience implementing compliant technology solutions
Are skilled at translating complex technical concepts into business value propositions that resonate with both technical and business stakeholders
Have experience influencing product roadmaps based on customer feedback and market requirements, working effectively with Product and Engineering teams
Are passionate about responsible AI development and Anthropic's mission, with a commitment to helping insurers adopt AI safely and beneficially

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.

Annual Salary:

$360,000—$550,000 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.

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.

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