# Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: Paris
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €235,000 - €295,000 EUR
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

## Job Description

Anthropic is building the Applied AI team to help the world's most ambitious organisations adopt Claude in ways that are transformative, safe, and lasting. Our Forward Deployed Engineers embed directly with strategic customers to ship production AI applications that solve real business problems.

As the first Forward Deployed Manager in Southern Europe, you will own the team that sits at the frontier of enterprise AI deployment. You will hire and develop a high-performing team of Forward Deployed Engineers, set the technical and operational bar for customer engagements, and build the playbooks that turn one-off successes into repeatable patterns.

### Responsibilities

- Hire, develop, and retain a world-class team of Forward Deployed Engineers. Set a high bar for technical talent and customer instincts.

- Conduct regular 1:1s, provide technical mentorship, and invest in the career growth of each team member. Create an environment where Forward Deployed Engineers do the best work of their careers.

- Staff and oversee customer engagements across your team's portfolio, making resource allocation decisions that balance customer needs, team development, and business priorities.

- Collaborate with account teams and Engagement Managers during the pre-sales process to qualify engagements, scope work, and inform statements of work.

- Review technical architectures and code produced by your Forward Deployed Engineers, ensuring the team ships high-quality, production-ready solutions that solve real customer problems.

- Stay hands-on enough to lead technical discovery sessions, prototype solutions, and debug complex issues alongside your team when needed.

- Build repeatable playbooks, starter repositories, integration templates, and an internal knowledge base that captures what your team learns in the field.

- Define team OKRs that tie to customer success outcomes and product adoption goals. Create operational cadences , standups, retros, engagement reviews , that keep the team aligned.

- Partner with Product and Engineering to translate field insights into product improvements. Serve as the voice of the customer in internal planning.

- Travel to customer sites as needed (25-50%), particularly during engagement kickoffs and for your team's highest-priority accounts.

### Requirements

- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, solutions architecture, or a technical customer-facing role such as forward deployed engineering or consulting.

- 2+ years of people management experience within a services/post-sales/FDE organisation with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers.

- Experience building organisations from 0->1, not just inheriting an existing one.

- Experience working directly with enterprise customers on technical implementations, including comfort navigating complex organisational dynamics.

- Executive presence with the ability to move fluidly between strategic conversations with senior stakeholders and hands-on debugging sessions with engineers.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills. You can translate technical complexity into clear narratives for diverse audiences.

- Genuine excitement about building something new and defining what great looks like for a team that doesn't yet exist.

## Why this role matters

You will be a founding leader of a team that defines how enterprises adopt and scale AI. Your work will directly influence Anthropic's product direction, create reusable patterns for the broader customer base, and establish Anthropic as the trusted partner for AI transformation , all while advancing the responsible development of frontier AI systems.

The annual compensation range for this role is €235,000 - €295,000 EUR.

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## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- solutions architecture
- technical customer-facing
- forward deployed engineering
- consulting
- people management
- enterprise customers
- technical implementations

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