Manager of Solutions Architecture, Applied AI (Industries)

About the Role

As the Manager of the Applied AI Architect team for Northern European Industries at Anthropic, you will drive the adoption of frontier AI by enabling the deployment of Anthropic's products (Claude for Enterprise, Claude Code, and API) across our Industries accounts: large enterprises across all non-tech verticals in the UK, Ireland and the Nordics.

You'll leverage your technical skills and consultative sales experience to drive positive AI transformation that addresses our customers' business needs, meets their technical requirements, and provides a high degree of reliability and safety.

Responsibilities

• Hire, manage and mentor a team of Applied AI Architects for Northern Europe, providing both technical guidance and career development
• Set goals and reviews for your team, promoting growth and output
• Work with a handful of highest-value enterprise customers on their overall AI adoption strategies, focusing on pre-sales technical excellence including use case scoping, architecture reviews, technical champion building, technical adoption workshops and POC execution
• Partner closely with your aligned GTM leadership to understand customer requirements and co-build GTM strategies to drive adoption across all industry verticals
• Own the technical portions of pre-sales engagements, ensuring your team provides compelling demos and validates customer ROI from Anthropic products
• Develop scalable technical engagement frameworks and reusable assets tailored for all non-tech sectors, including Financial Services & Insurance, Healthcare, Telco, Retail and others.

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
• 3+ years of technical go-to-market management experience, specifically managing pre-sales teams
• Experience working with and selling to large enterprise customers across multiple verticals
• Demonstrated ability to navigate and articulate complex technical, organisational and regulatory requirements of large enterprises, in particular in regulated industries (e.g FSI, Healthcare & Life Sciences)
• A proven knowledge of the Northern European market and its local specificities (regulatory, cultural, technical…)
• Experience framing and delivering enterprise AI use cases (productivity, workflow transformation) and/or scoping large enterprise adoption programs
• Deep technical proficiency with enterprise AI deployments, API integrations, and production LLM use cases
• Demonstrated ability to build scalable, repeatable processes and frameworks that work across diverse customer segments
• An organisational mindset and enjoy building foundational teams in a relatively unstructured environment
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and coaching abilities
• Comfort dealing with highly uncertain, ambiguous, and fast-moving environments
• Strong executive presence and ability to foster deep relationships with technical leaders and engineering teams
• High-level familiarity with the architecture and operation of LLM and/or ML in general
• Experience with prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, and architecting AI-powered systems
• Ability to make ambiguous problems clear and identify core principles that can translate across scenarios
• A passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial
• Creative thinking about the risks and benefits of new technologies, beyond past checklists and playbooks
• A track record of staying current with emerging AI research and industry trends or similar.

Strong candidates may also have:

• 10+ years technical experience
• 5+ years managing AI technic