Manager, Applied AI Architect

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.

• Hire, manage, and guide a team of pre-sales Solutions Architects by providing both technical guidance and career development.
• Set goals for your team in collaboration with sales and other parts of the organization that establish baseline expectations for performance.
• Act as a technical sponsor for high-value strategic customers and advise them on their overall AI adoption strategies or use case scoping and POC execution.
• Partner closely with Enterprise Tech sales leadership to identify new strategies to drive adoption of Anthropic products across customer use cases.
• Work with cross-functional teams like product and engineering to ensure Anthropic prioritizes customer feedback or resolves blockers to adoption.
• Travel to customer sites or conferences for executive-level sessions, technical workshops, and relationship building.
• Establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI in technology products.
• Contribute to thought leadership through conference presentations, webinars, and technical content creation.
• Stay current with emerging AI/ML trends and the competitive landscape.

• 7+ years of experience as a Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or similar pre-sales technical role.
• 3+ years of technical pre-sales management experience.
• Have deep technical proficiency with enterprise AI use cases, API integrations, and LLM deployments.
• Thrive in building and rapidly scaling teams and processes within ambiguous and fast-moving environments.
• Have excellent communication, collaboration, and coaching abilities.
• Strong executive presence and ability to foster deep relationships with technical leaders and engineering teams at leading enterprise technology companies.
• Have at least a high level familiarity with the architecture and operation of LLMs.
• Have a passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial.
• Stay up-to-date and informed by taking an active interest in emerging research and industry trends within AI.

• Annual compensation range: $315,000 — $380,000 USD (OTE).
• Location-based hybrid policy: currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
• Visa sponsorship available.