Manager of Solutions Architecture, Applied AI (Industries)

Job Title: Manager of Solutions Architecture, Applied AI (Industries)

About the Role:

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.

Responsibilities:

• 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 organisation 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 Industries sales leadership to identify new strategies to drive adoption of Anthropic products within specific verticals or horizontal use cases.
• Work with cross-functional teams like product and engineering to ensure Anthropic prioritises 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.

Requirements:

• 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 sold complex technical products to Fortune 500 companies, especially in verticals like financial services, healthcare life sciences, and retail.
• 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 Fortune 500 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Enterprise pre-sales leadership at scale: 5+ years leading solution architect teams through hypergrowth (ideally 10 to 50+ people), with direct experience managing senior individual contributors and developing junior talent in complex enterprise software sales environments.
• AI Technical Depth + Executive Engagement: Hands-on experience with AI platforms and enterprise integration patterns, combined with proven track record engaging C-level stakeholders in $10M+ technical evaluations and enterprise sales cycles.
• Multi-Segment GTM Experience: Demonstrated success adapting technical approaches across customer segments (commercial to Fortune 100).

Salary: The annual compensation range for this role is $270,000-$345,000 USD.