Description
As the manager of the Industries Solutions Architect team within Applied AI at Anthropic, you will drive the adoption of frontier AI in partnership with the rest of the go to market organisation. Our Industries customers include Fortune 500 companies within verticals like financial services, healthcare life sciences, and retail.
You will be responsible for leading and growing the pre-sales team that partners with account executives to help those companies understand and deploy Anthropic's products, including Claude for Enterprise, Claude Code, and the API. This will include leveraging your technical skills and consultative sales experience to hire great people, establish processes for the team to scale, and represent Anthropic directly at strategic customer engagements.
You will hire, manage, and guide a team of pre-sales Solutions Architects by providing both technical guidance and career development. You will set goals for your team in collaboration with sales and other parts of the organisation that establish baseline expectations for performance.
You will 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. You will partner closely with Industries sales leadership to identify new strategies to drive adoption of Anthropic products within specific verticals or horizontal use cases.
You will work with cross-functional teams like product and engineering to ensure Anthropic prioritises customer feedback or resolves blockers to adoption. You will travel to customer sites or conferences for executive-level sessions, technical workshops, and relationship building.
You will establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI in technology products. You will contribute to thought leadership through conference presentations, webinars, and technical content creation. You will stay current with emerging AI/ML trends and the competitive landscape.
You may be a good fit if you have 7+ years of experience as a Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or similar pre-sales technical role. You will have 3+ years of technical pre-sales management experience. You will have sold complex technical products to Fortune 500 companies, especially in verticals like financial services, healthcare life sciences, and retail.
You will have deep technical proficiency with enterprise AI use cases, API integrations, and LLM deployments. You will thrive in building and rapidly scaling teams and processes within ambiguous and fast-moving environments. You will have excellent communication, collaboration, and coaching abilities.
You will have strong executive presence and ability to foster deep relationships with technical leaders and engineering teams at Fortune 500 companies. You will have at least a high level familiarity with the architecture and operation of LLMs. You will have a passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial.
You will stay up-to-date and informed by taking an active interest in emerging research and industry trends within AI.
Strong candidates may have experience in enterprise pre-sales leadership at scale, AI technical depth, and executive engagement. They may have multi-segment GTM experience and a proven track record adapting technical approaches across customer segments.
The annual compensation range for this role is $270,000 - $345,000 USD.