Anthropic· Sales· San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
Customer Success Manager, Higher Education
Classified Tasks (20)
Automate 5%Augment 70%Human-Only 25%
Automate (1)
Fully handled by AI agents
Monitor product usage patterns and generate reports identifying adoption trends and areas for optimization.
analytical
Augment (14)
AI assists, human decides
Apply customer success practices to higher education institutions.
operational
Develop and maintain deep expertise in Anthropic products (API, Claude for Enterprise, Claude Code) and document technical nuances and best practices.
technical
Identify optimization opportunities and address underutilization across consumption-based (API) and seat-based products.
analytical
Discover and propose new applications for Claude across departments and workflows.
creative
Design and implement Train the Trainer programs to scale enablement within partner institutions.
operational
Create and maintain enablement resources and scalable assets to drive efficiency across the partner portfolio.
administrative
Socialize Anthropic’s product roadmap with customers and drive awareness of new products and features.
communication
Engage Product Managers with customer needs and feedback to inform product development.
communication
Identify and develop thought leadership and community activation opportunities.
creative
Design and deliver 1:many engagement programs such as webinars, cohort-based learning, and peer networking.
communication
Design initiatives that showcase impactful use cases for teaching, learning, and research.
creative
Help universities embed and deploy AI across teaching, research, and administrative processes.
technical
Assess partner institutions’ mission, strategic objectives, programmatic goals, and technical capacity to inform engagement plans.
analytical
Measure and report on adoption, impact, and outcomes for students, faculty, and administrators.
analytical
Human-Only (5)
Requires human judgment
Serve as the strategic partner and trusted advisor to universities to guide their use of Claude API, Claude for Enterprise, and Claude Code.
leadership
Build and maintain strategic relationships with key university decision-makers and act as the primary point of contact between universities and Anthropic.
leadership
Coordinate with faculty, administrators, IT departments, and procurement offices to navigate complex academic stakeholder ecosystems.
operational
Develop and execute change management strategies tailored to universities to drive Claude adoption.
leadership
Establish and support Centers of Excellence to institutionalize AI capability and governance.
leadership
Job description
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 as a Customer Success Manager supporting our Higher Education initiatives. In this role, you’ll apply customer success practices to higher education institutions. Anthropic’s Beneficial Deployments team is focused on building AI for good through partnerships with high-impact organizations across education, public health, life sciences, economic mobility, and more. As a dedicated Customer Success Manager, you’ll be the strategic partner and trusted advisor to universities - helping them harness Claude’s full potential of all our Claude capabilities - API, Claude for Enterprise, and Claude Code to amplify their social impact. You'll develop genuine partnerships with education institutions gaining a deep understanding of their mission, strategic objectives, programmatic goals, and technical capacity. Drawing on your education expertise, business acumen, and technical knowledge, you'll serve as a strategic advisor throughout their journey—helping them identify the right Claude capabilities for their specific objectives while providing best practices tailored to the unique constraints of institutions and education organizations. You'll help universities scale their AI usage safely and effectively, implementing change management strategies and driving toward impact for students, faculty, and administrators. Responsibilities: Build and maintain strategic relationships with key university decision-makers while serving as the primary point of contact between universities and Anthropic, navigating complex academic stakeholder ecosystems including faculty, administrators, IT departments, and procurement offices. 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 Monitor usage patterns and proactively drive adoption—identifying optimization opportunities, addressing underutilization across consumption-based (API) and seat-based products, and discovering new applications for Claude across departments and workflows Develop and execute change management strategies appropriate for universities, driving adoption through Train the Trainer programs, Center of Excellence development, and organizational enablement that respects education institutions constraints and decision-making processes Create and maintain enablement resources —identifying opportunities to develop scalable assets that drive efficiency across the partner portfolio 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 Identify and create opportunities for thought leadership and community activation, developing 1:many engagement programs such as webinars, cohort-based learning, and peer networking that extend impact beyond individual partner relationships Design initiatives that showcase impactful use cases for teaching, learning and research, and helping them embed and deploy AI while uncovering its full range of capabilities in teaching, research, and administration. You may be a good fit if you have: 5+ years of experience in higher education technology, preferably in SaaS or eme