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full-timeHead Of Customer Success, APAC
Anthropic · Sydney, Australia
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company focused on developing reliable, interpretable, and steerable artificial intelligence systems, including the Claude model. As the Head of Customer Success for the APAC region, this foundational leadership role involves building and scaling a multi-layered customer success organization across diverse markets including India, Japan, Korea, ASEAN, and Australia. The successful candidate will define the regional strategy, manage a team of managers and individual contributors, and ensure that strategic customers effectively adopt and derive value from Anthropic’s AI solutions. Daily responsibilities include establishing scalable processes and playbooks, representing the company to senior stakeholders and enterprise clients, and collaborating with global product and engineering teams to ensure regional customer feedback informs future development. This position requires a leader capable of balancing global consistency with the specific regulatory, cultural, and linguistic nuances of the APAC region. It is well-suited for an experienced professional with a background in technology consulting or enterprise SaaS, who possesses a proven track record in scaling customer success functions and advising C-suite executives on complex digital transformation initiatives.
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 Head of Customer Success, APAC at Anthropic, you will build and lead our Customer Success function across Asia Pacific. You will scale a team of managers and CSMs who help our most strategic APAC customers realize the full value of Claude. This is a foundational leadership role: you will establish how we run CS in the region, hire and develop a multi-market team of managers, and partner closely with your global counterparts to deliver a globally consistent customer experience while localising where it matters. APAC is not one market. You will lead across India, Japan, Korea, ASEAN, and Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), each with its own buying culture, regulatory context, language needs and pace of AI adoption. You will work hand-in-hand with global GTM, Product and Engineering leaders to shape our APAC CS strategy, take APAC customer priorities back into the business, and drive adoption, retention and growth across some of the most exciting markets in the world. Key responsibilities Build and lead a multi-layered Customer Success organisation across APAC, managing managers and scaling the team responsibly as our APAC business grows. Define and execute the APAC CS strategy in close partnership with global CS leadership, aligning with the global agenda while localising approach, motion and programmes for APAC market dynamics. Own CS business outcomes including customer health, retention, expansion and satisfaction across APAC accounts. Hire, develop and coach a high-performing team of CS managers and individual contributors, building a culture that reflects Anthropic's values across Asia's diverse geographies, languages and working cultures. Partner with global CS, Sales, Product and Engineering teams so the voice of APAC customers reaches decision-making forums. Establish scalable processes, playbooks and operating cadences that work across APAC time zones (India to Japan, Korea and ANZ) and overlap responsibly with global teams. Represent Anthropic with senior customer stakeholders across APAC, leading executive engagements, QBRs and strategic account conversations with enterprises, digital natives, startups and public sector bodies. Build strong working relationships with APAC channel and cloud partners, and with systems integrators and consulting firms that shape enterprise AI adoption in the region. Contribute to global CS strategy as a senior leader, bringing an APAC perspective to team planning, segmentation and prioritisation. Help shape how we deploy AI responsibly with customers across APAC's varied regulatory environments, including data residency, privacy and sector rules in markets such as India, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Australia. Minimum qualifications 15+ years of experience in management consulting, technology consulting, professional services or customer-facing advisory roles, with a track record of advising senior client executives on complex transformation programmes. Experience building and leading multi-market Customer Success or Technical Success organisations, including managing managers Track record of scaling CS teams across APAC at enterprise software, SaaS or AI/ML companies Demonstrated ability to balance global alignment with regional localisation across multiple APAC markets and cultures. Strong people leadership: a clear philosophy on hiring, coaching and developing managers and senior ICs. Experience owning enterprise customer relationships and driving measurable business outcomes (retention, expansion, adoption) in APAC markets. Strong executive presence and the ability to represent a company credibly with C-suite stakeholders across APAC. Excellent cross-functional partnership skills, particularly working across time zones with global leadership teams. Preferred qualifications Experience leading Customer Success across APAC Working fluency in an APAC language (for example Japanese, Korean or an ASEAN language) or a strong record of leading teams that operate in those languages Experience standing up a CS function in a new APAC market from the ground up Background in API products, developer platforms or consumption-based business models Familiarity with AI/ML technologies and the ability to explain complex technical concepts to business audiences Experience working with APAC hyperscaler, channel and SI partners on joint customer delivery Track record of influencing global product roadmaps through structured customer feedback from APAC markets Passion for responsible AI development and deployment Logistics Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience Required fie
| Role | Head Of Customer Success, APAC |
|---|---|
| Company | Anthropic |
| Location | Sydney, Australia |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Posted | 2026-09-28 |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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