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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 a Product Manager in the Internal Products and Technologies organization, you'll own the experiences our sales teams use to configure, price, quote, approve, and close deals. You’ll partner with Engineering, Sales, Deal Operations, Finance, and Legal to shape how customers buy from Anthropic. You’ll balance a fast, simple seller experience with rigorous governance.
Responsibilities
- Deeply understand sellers, Deal Desk, Legal, and Order Management workflows and how tooling can improve their impact.
- Own product strategy and roadmap for quoting, approvals, and deal execution, using AI wherever it makes the experience meaningfully better.
- Partner with engineering to design and ship the systems behind quoting, pricing, and approvals, and own adoption as well as launch.
- Make prioritization calls across competing stakeholder needs.
You might be a good fit if you have
- 8+ years in product management, including ownership of complex internal or enterprise products.
- Experience building or scaling CPQ (configure, price, quote), pricing, or approval systems for complex enterprise deals.
- Experience shipping AI-powered workflows that people relied on in production.
- Experience with products where financial controls and auditability matter.
- A record of resolving conflicting priorities across functions without direct authority.
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:
$305,000 - $385,000 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.
For roles performing work in California: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.
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.
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 a Product Manager in the Internal Products and Technologies organization, you'll own the experiences our sales teams use to configure, price, quote, approve, and close deals. You’ll partner with Engineering, Sales, Deal Operations, Finance, and Legal to shape how customers buy from Anthropic. You’ll balance a fast, simple seller experience with rigorous governance.
Responsibilities
- Deeply understand sellers, Deal Desk, Legal, and Order Management workflows and how tooling can improve their impact.
- Own product strategy and roadmap for quoting, approvals, and deal execution, using AI wherever it makes the experience meaningfully better.
- Partner with engineering to design and ship the systems behind quoting, pricing, and approvals, and own adoption as well as launch.
- Make prioritization calls across competing stakeholder needs.
You might be a good fit if you have
- 8+ years in product management, including ownership of complex internal or enterprise products.
- Experience building or scaling CPQ (configure, price, quote), pricing, or approval systems for complex enterprise deals.
- Experience shipping AI-powered workflows that people relied on in production.
- Experience with products where financial controls and auditability matter.
- A record of resolving conflicting priorities across functions without direct authority.
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:
$305,000 - $385,000 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.
For roles performing work in California: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.
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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Who's Hiring
- TikTok35
- Amazon28
- CHT9
- Walmart7
- Whatnot6
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software13
- Retail2
- E-Commerce & Online Marketplaces2
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in bookseller jobs.
- Demonstrated knowledge of book genres, authors, and publishing trends
- Experience with point-of-sale systems and cash handling in a retail environment
- Strong customer service skills with the ability to recommend titles to diverse readers
- Familiarity with inventory management and receiving procedures for books and merchandise
- High school diploma or equivalent, with a preference for coursework in literature or education
- Availability for evenings, weekends, and holiday shifts during peak retail seasons
Tips for Your Bookseller Job Search
Tailor your resume to inventory and curation
Bookseller resumes that stand out highlight direct experience with inventory management, genre knowledge, and reader recommendation skills. List specific categories you know deeply, whether literary fiction, YA, or local interest, since hiring managers notice subject-matter fluency immediately.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists bookseller openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Signal your community engagement history
Independent stores and library-adjacent retailers weight community involvement heavily. If you've organized author events, led a book club, or run reading programs, put those in your work history rather than burying them under a volunteer section.
Target listings by store format and mission
A chain retail bookseller role demands different instincts than an indie shop focused on hand-selling. Read each job listing for language like 'hand-sell,' 'curated sections,' or 'POS systems' to judge the fit before applying, so your cover letter can speak directly to their model.
Prepare for scenario-based interview questions
Bookseller interviews often include real customer scenarios: a patron wants a gift for someone who 'doesn't really read,' or a child needs a book at the right reading level. Practice talking through your recommendation logic out loud before the interview so your answers feel natural.
Negotiate scheduling and section ownership together
When discussing an offer, ask about owning or developing a specific section alongside your availability conversation. Booksellers who demonstrate enthusiasm for building out a category often get more flexible scheduling and faster advancement than those who negotiate pay alone.
Bookseller Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most booksellers?
The most active employers for booksellers right now are TikTok, Amazon, and CHT, and the most openings are in California, Washington, and Georgia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Availability shifts quickly, so check back regularly if your preferred market or employer isn't currently posting.
How many bookseller jobs are remote?
About 48% of bookseller openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with most remote opportunities concentrated in online retail operations, digital merchandising, and book subscription curation rather than traditional floor sales. The majority of roles remain in-person given the customer-facing nature of the work.
How do you become a bookseller?
Start by developing genuine fluency in at least one or two book categories, since the ability to recommend titles confidently is the core skill employers evaluate. Gain retail or customer service experience in any setting, then apply to entry-level positions at independent bookstores or retail chains. Many booksellers build toward buyer or events coordinator roles from there.
Can you get hired as a bookseller with little or no experience?
Yes, many bookstores hire candidates with no formal retail background if they can demonstrate deep reading habits and enthusiasm for connecting people with books. Mention any book clubs you've led, reviews you've written, or categories you follow closely in your cover letter. Entry-level roles at chain retailers are often the most accessible starting point, with indie shops sometimes preferring candidates who already know their specific niche.
What does the bookseller interview process look like?
Most bookseller interviews involve an initial phone or in-person conversation focused on your reading background and customer service experience, followed by a practical scenario where you're asked to recommend a book to a hypothetical customer. Some stores add a brief walkthrough of their floor or inventory system. Independent shops often have a more informal process, while larger retailers may include a structured panel interview.
Where can I find and apply to bookseller jobs?
You can find and apply to bookseller jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search the available roles, find the listings that match your experience and preferred location, and apply directly to each one that fits your background.
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