Anthropic
Manager of Solutions Architecture, Applied AI
Anthropic, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Manager of Solutions Architecture, Applied AI
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About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About The Role As the manager of the Digital Native, Applied AI, Solutions Architect team 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 Enterprise Tech companies and digital-first organizations. 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. You'll be responsible for leading & growing the Digital Native, Applied AI, Solutions Architect team, establish processes and best practices for your segment's pre‑sales engagements based on your years of experience, help each team member achieve success, high productivity, and career growth, and represent Anthropic as a technical lead on some of its most important partnerships. In collaboration with the Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll help enterprise tech partners incorporate leading-edge AI systems into their cutting‑edge products and platforms. You will employ your excellent communication skills to explain and demonstrate complex solutions persuasively to technical and non‑technical audiences alike. You will play a critical role in identifying opportunities to innovate and differentiate our AI systems, while maintaining our best‑in‑class safety standards.
Responsibilities
Manage and mentor a team of Applied AI, Solutions Architects, 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 Digital Native enterprise customers on their overall AI adoption strategies, focusing on pre‑sales technical excellence including use case scoping, technical champion building, and POC execution
Partner closely with your aligned GTM leadership to understand customer requirements & co‑build GTM strategies to drive adoption for Digital Native enterprise customers
Own the technical portions of pre‑sales engagements, ensuring your team provides compelling demos and validates enterprise customer ROI from Anthropic products
Drive collaboration from cross‑functional teams to influence and unify stakeholders at all levels of the organization to drive business outcomes
Travel occasionally 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 for tech‑forward use cases
Contribute to thought leadership through conference presentations, webinars, and technical content creation
Stay current with emerging AI/ML trends and competitive landscape in the enterprise tech sector
Qualifications
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 Digital Native focused customers (Vertical Enterprise SaaS, Horizontal Enterprise SaaS, Consumer Technology Companies, PaaS, etc.)
Experience with the unique technical requirements and technical procurement process of enterprise tech companies
Deep technical proficiency with enterprise AI deployments, API integrations, & production LLM use cases
Have an organizational mindset and enjoy building foundational teams in a relatively unstructured environment
Have excellent communication, collaboration, & coaching abilities
Comfortable dealing with highly uncertain, ambiguous, and fast‑moving environments typical of the tech industry
Strong executive presence & ability to foster deep relationships with technical leaders and engineering teams
High‑level familiarity with the architecture & operation of large language models and/or ML in general
Experience with prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, & architecting AI‑powered systems
Make ambiguous problems clear & identify core principles that can translate across scenarios
Passion for making powerful technology safe & societally beneficial
Think creatively about the risks & benefits of new technologies, and think beyond past checklists and playbooks
Active interest in emerging research & industry trends
Understanding of developer tooling, SDKs, & technical integration patterns common in enterprise tech companies
Preferred Qualifications
Enterprise SA Leadership at Scale: 5+ years leading solution architect teams through hypergrowth (ideally 10→50+ people), with direct experience managing both senior SAs and developing junior talent in complex enterprise software environments
AI/ML Technical Depth & Executive Engagement: Hands‑on experience with AI/ML platforms and enterprise integration patterns, combined with proven track record engaging C‑level stakeholders in $10M+ technical evaluations & enterprise sales cycles
Multi‑Segment GTM Experience: Demonstrated success adapting technical approaches across customer segments (startup to Fortune 500), with experience spanning the full deal spectrum from $2M employee empowerment through $100M+ core business transformation initiatives
Compensation Annual Salary: $270,000—$345,000 USD
Full‑time employees receive equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.
Logistics
Education: Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience required
Location‑based hybrid policy: Staff expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more in‑office time
Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas and will make every reasonable effort, though we cannot guarantee sponsorship for every role or candidate
Equity & Inclusion We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Representation matters, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Company Overview Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
Guidance on Candidates’ AI Usage:
Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.
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About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About The Role As the manager of the Digital Native, Applied AI, Solutions Architect team 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 Enterprise Tech companies and digital-first organizations. 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. You'll be responsible for leading & growing the Digital Native, Applied AI, Solutions Architect team, establish processes and best practices for your segment's pre‑sales engagements based on your years of experience, help each team member achieve success, high productivity, and career growth, and represent Anthropic as a technical lead on some of its most important partnerships. In collaboration with the Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll help enterprise tech partners incorporate leading-edge AI systems into their cutting‑edge products and platforms. You will employ your excellent communication skills to explain and demonstrate complex solutions persuasively to technical and non‑technical audiences alike. You will play a critical role in identifying opportunities to innovate and differentiate our AI systems, while maintaining our best‑in‑class safety standards.
Responsibilities
Manage and mentor a team of Applied AI, Solutions Architects, 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 Digital Native enterprise customers on their overall AI adoption strategies, focusing on pre‑sales technical excellence including use case scoping, technical champion building, and POC execution
Partner closely with your aligned GTM leadership to understand customer requirements & co‑build GTM strategies to drive adoption for Digital Native enterprise customers
Own the technical portions of pre‑sales engagements, ensuring your team provides compelling demos and validates enterprise customer ROI from Anthropic products
Drive collaboration from cross‑functional teams to influence and unify stakeholders at all levels of the organization to drive business outcomes
Travel occasionally 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 for tech‑forward use cases
Contribute to thought leadership through conference presentations, webinars, and technical content creation
Stay current with emerging AI/ML trends and competitive landscape in the enterprise tech sector
Qualifications
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 Digital Native focused customers (Vertical Enterprise SaaS, Horizontal Enterprise SaaS, Consumer Technology Companies, PaaS, etc.)
Experience with the unique technical requirements and technical procurement process of enterprise tech companies
Deep technical proficiency with enterprise AI deployments, API integrations, & production LLM use cases
Have an organizational mindset and enjoy building foundational teams in a relatively unstructured environment
Have excellent communication, collaboration, & coaching abilities
Comfortable dealing with highly uncertain, ambiguous, and fast‑moving environments typical of the tech industry
Strong executive presence & ability to foster deep relationships with technical leaders and engineering teams
High‑level familiarity with the architecture & operation of large language models and/or ML in general
Experience with prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, & architecting AI‑powered systems
Make ambiguous problems clear & identify core principles that can translate across scenarios
Passion for making powerful technology safe & societally beneficial
Think creatively about the risks & benefits of new technologies, and think beyond past checklists and playbooks
Active interest in emerging research & industry trends
Understanding of developer tooling, SDKs, & technical integration patterns common in enterprise tech companies
Preferred Qualifications
Enterprise SA Leadership at Scale: 5+ years leading solution architect teams through hypergrowth (ideally 10→50+ people), with direct experience managing both senior SAs and developing junior talent in complex enterprise software environments
AI/ML Technical Depth & Executive Engagement: Hands‑on experience with AI/ML platforms and enterprise integration patterns, combined with proven track record engaging C‑level stakeholders in $10M+ technical evaluations & enterprise sales cycles
Multi‑Segment GTM Experience: Demonstrated success adapting technical approaches across customer segments (startup to Fortune 500), with experience spanning the full deal spectrum from $2M employee empowerment through $100M+ core business transformation initiatives
Compensation Annual Salary: $270,000—$345,000 USD
Full‑time employees receive equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.
Logistics
Education: Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience required
Location‑based hybrid policy: Staff expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more in‑office time
Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas and will make every reasonable effort, though we cannot guarantee sponsorship for every role or candidate
Equity & Inclusion We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Representation matters, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Company Overview Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
Guidance on Candidates’ AI Usage:
Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.
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