# Kate Jensen

Leadership · Head of Americas at Anthropic · joined 2023

A biomedical engineer who built sales teams at Stripe for seven years before joining in 2023.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/kate-jensen

**At Anthropic:**
- Aug 2025 – present: Head of Americas
- Aug 2023 – Aug 2025: Head of Sales + Partnerships
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateearle)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- 2019 – Aug 2023: Stripe, Head of Platform Sales
- Feb 2017 – Jul 2019: Stripe, Head of Outbound Sales
- 2016 – Sep 2019: Stripe, Head of Growth & Mid-Market Sales
- Feb 2014 – Sep 2014: Google for Work, Team Lead - Assist (SMB Online Sales)
- Aug 2012 – Feb 2014: Google for Work, Sales Operations & Strategy
- Jul 2010 – Sep 2012: Peterstow Aquapower, Sales & Product Development
- Aug 2009 – Jul 2010: Oakham School, Graduate Science Fellow
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateearle)

**Education:**
- BS, Biomedical Engineering, Yale University
- Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateearle)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Studied biomedical engineering at Yale, then business at Stanford. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateearle)
- Worked at a water-hydraulic mining equipment startup in southern Africa and the UK. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateearle)
- Led a small-business online sales team at Google for Work before her MBA. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateearle)
- Manages Anthropic's major cloud partnerships with Amazon and Google. [1](https://live.skift.com/speaker/kate-jensen/)
- Said in 2026: "2025 was meant to be the year agents transformed the enterprise, but the hype turned out to be mostly premature." [1](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/anthropic-launches-push-enterprise-agents-144555848.html)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [ZoomInfo Labs Podcast, season 1 episode 1 (2024)](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anthropic-head-of-sales-kate-jensen/id1757547464?i=1000662378550)
- [Connected Stack keynote with Mike Montano: Real ROI, how the agentic enterprise measures what matters (2026)](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/connected-stack-enterprise-ai-summit-announces-speaker-lineup-including-keynote-by-anthropic-302872932.html)
- [Skift Global Forum East talk on Anthropic's enterprise-first approach (2025)](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/skift_dont-tell-anthropics-kate-jensen-that-her-activity-7390977307273871360-MZ_J)

Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-10-18. Everyone at Anthropic: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people