# Manager, Applied AI Architect

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: Tokyo
**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

## Job Overview

As a leader of Applied AI Solutions Architecture in Japan, you will drive the adoption of frontier AI by enabling the deployment of Anthropic's products across Japanese enterprises and digital-first organizations.

## Responsibilities

- Lead and grow a team of Applied AI professionals in Tokyo, providing both technical guidance and career development

- Set goals and reviews for your team, promoting growth and output

- Partner with the existing Japan Applied AI leadership to align on team structure, coverage, and best practices

- Work with a handful of the highest-value enterprise customers on their overall AI adoption strategies

- Partner closely with your aligned GTM leadership to understand customer requirements and co-build GTM strategies

- Contribute to thought leadership through conference presentations, webinars, and technical content creation

- Own the technical portions of pre-sales engagements, ensuring your team provides compelling demos and validates enterprise customer ROI from Anthropic products

- Drive collaboration across cross-functional teams to influence and unify stakeholders at all levels of the organization

- Travel regularly to customer sites for executive-level sessions, technical workshops, and building relationships

- Establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI in technology products

- Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of innovative solutions that leverage our latest models' capabilities

- Stay current with emerging AI/ML trends and the competitive landscape in the Japanese enterprise tech sector

## Requirements

- 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

- Native or business-level fluency in Japanese and professional proficiency in English

- Experience working with Japanese enterprise customers and understanding local business culture and decision-making processes

- Experience with the unique technical requirements and technical procurement processes of Japanese enterprises

- Deep technical proficiency with enterprise AI deployments, API integrations, and production LLM use cases

- An organizational mindset and enjoyment of scaling teams in a fast-growing, evolving environment

- Excellent communication, collaboration, and coaching abilities

- Comfort with uncertain, ambiguous, and fast-moving environments typical of the tech industry

- Strong executive presence and the ability to foster deep relationships with technical leaders and engineering teams

- At least a high-level familiarity with the architecture and operation of large language models and/or ML in general

- Experience with prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, and architecting AI-powered systems

- The ability to make ambiguous problems clear and identify core principles that translate across scenarios

- A passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial

- Creative thinking about the risks and benefits of new technologies

- An active interest in emerging research and industry trends

- Understanding of developer tooling, SDKs, and technical integration patterns common in enterprise tech companies

## Skills

### Required
- Solutions Architecture
- Sales Engineering
- Technical Go-to-Market Management
- AI Deployments
- API Integrations
- LLM Use Cases
- Japanese Language
- English Language
- Enterprise AI
- Machine Learning

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