# Partner Specializations Lead at Anthropic

> Own the Claude partner specializations program, setting requirements, running evaluation cycles, and making qualification decisions.

- Company: Anthropic (anthropic.com)
- Location: San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
- Places: San Francisco, New York, United States
- Posted: 2026-11-04
- Team: Claude Partner Network
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5464485008
- Page: https://ye.saranatour.dev/jobs/partner-specializations-lead-anthropic-kn7ca4j9zcxg6twmfmw1326djd8hjpy0

## The posting

Partner Specializations Lead
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY

## **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

The Claude Partner Network is how consulting firms, systems integrators, and other services partners build practices around Claude. When a company chooses a partner, it wants to know which firms have done this work well, in its industry and for its use case. Specializations are how the program will give it: credentials showing that a partner has demonstrated expertise in a given domain area.

As Partner Specializations Lead, you'll own this program end to end: the requirements a firm has to meet, the evidence review that decides who qualifies, the benefits that make a specialization worth earning, and the operating rhythm that keeps it credible year after year. Your job is to take an early framework into a structure that scales: opening it to thousands of partners, running evaluation cycles, and launching new specializations with cross-functional input.

This role suits someone who likes owning a standard. You'll work with partner managers, operations, enablement, marketing, and industry teams who each hold a piece of the program, and with senior leaders at partner firms who care a great deal about the outcome. A specialization only means something if it's earned, so you'll need to be rigorous with evidence, consistent in your decisions, and firm and clear when the answer is no.

## Key responsibilities

- Own each specialization's requirements, evidence standards, and benefits, and keep them current as our products and the partner network change
- Run each evaluation cycle from invitation to decision: collect partner evidence, reconcile it against internal data, lead the review, and document every decision
- Make and defend qualification decisions, including borderline cases, and apply the standard consistently across firms of very different sizes
- Communicate outcomes to partner executives and their Anthropic account teams, including clear guidance for firms that did not qualify
- Open the program to the wider partner network, and recommend which specializations come next based on customer demand, partner readiness, and Anthropic's priorities
- Define the evidence standard for new specializations with Applied AI, Product, and industry go-to-market teams
- Coordinate the teams that deliver the program's benefits (marketing, the partner directory, field enablement, technical support) so that earning a specialization leads to something real
- Work with Partner Enablement so that partner learning paths and certifications support each specialization
- Build the operating rhythm: renewal, remediation periods, an appeals path, and the tracking and reporting that show whether the program is working
- Design the review process to scale, using Claude and automation so that routine steps don't depend on a person
- Write and maintain partner-facing guidance (program guide sections, FAQs, application materials), clear enough for a partner to know where it stands without asking us, and internal guidance for field teams
- Use program data to recommend where each requirement's bar should sit and when it should m