Anthropic posted — and then deleted — a job listing for a salesperson tasked with selling to Meta, its AI rival and one of its largest customers.
The listing, titled “Mega Account Executive, Meta,” appeared on Anthropic’s job board at a delicate moment for the companies’ relationship.
Meta still spends hundreds of millions of dollars a month as Anthropic’s customer, according to a recent New York Times report. But it’s also trying to reduce its reliance on Anthropic’s AI tools as Anthropic is shoring up its finances ahead of a massive initial public offering.
The post suggests Anthropic is betting Meta will remain a major customer even as Meta builds more capable AI models of its own.
After Business Insider asked Anthropic about the listing on Wednesday, the company pulled it down. Anthropic and Meta declined to comment.
Anthropic’s job posting offered an annual salary of $380,000 to $450,000, and didn’t mention Meta outside the title. It said the salesperson would “win new business and drive revenue within a book of strategic digital native accounts.”
The listing stands out for its specificity. Other Anthropic account executive openings target broad regions or sectors, including startups in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, or the public sector in Southeast Asia.
Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, became popular across Silicon Valley, including at Meta, this year. One internal projection said Meta could spend $10 billion annually on Anthropic, the Times reported. Meta’s head of AI product, Nat Friedman, told employees that if Meta decreased its reliance on Anthropic’s tools, it could hit Anthropic’s revenue as it approaches its IPO, the report said.
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