# Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: Munich
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

## About the role

Anthropic is building a team to help organisations adopt Claude in transformative, safe, and lasting ways. As the first FDE Manager in DACH, you'll lead a team that deploys AI applications for strategic customers. You'll hire and develop a high-performing team, set technical and operational standards, and create playbooks for repeatable successes.

## Responsibilities

- Hire, develop, and retain a world-class team of Forward Deployed Engineers.

- Conduct regular 1:1s, provide technical mentorship, and invest in career growth.

- Staff and oversee customer engagements, making resource allocation decisions.

- Collaborate with account teams and Engagement Managers during pre-sales.

- Review technical architectures and code produced by your FDEs.

- Stay hands-on to lead technical discovery sessions, prototype solutions, and debug complex issues.

- Build repeatable playbooks, starter repositories, and an internal knowledge base.

- Define team OKRs tied to customer success outcomes and product adoption goals.

- Partner with Product and Engineering to translate field insights into product improvements.

- Travel to customer sites as needed (25-50%).

## You may be a good fit if you have

- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, solutions architecture, or a technical customer-facing role.

- 2+ years of people management experience within a services/post-sales/FDE organisation.

- Experience building organisations from 0->1.

- Experience working directly with enterprise customers on technical implementations.

- Executive presence with strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Genuine excitement about building something new and defining what great looks like for a team.

## Why this role matters

You'll be a founding leader of a team that defines how enterprises adopt and scale AI. Your work will directly influence Anthropic's product direction and create reusable patterns for the broader customer base.

## Logistics

- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

- Minimum years of experience: Correlates with internal job level requirements.

- Location-based hybrid policy: 25% office time.

- Visa sponsorship: Available.

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## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- solutions architecture
- technical customer-facing
- people management
- enterprise customer implementation

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