About the job
As the manager of the Solutions Architect team within Applied AI Enterprise Tech at Anthropic, you will drive the adoption of frontier AI in partnership with the rest of the go to market organization. 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 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 organization 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 Enterprise Tech sales leadership to identify new strategies to drive adoption of Anthropic products across customer use cases.
Work with cross-functional teams like product and engineering to ensure Anthropic prioritizes 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.
Qualifications
Minimum
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 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 leading enterprise technology companies.
Have at least a high level familiarity with the architecture and operation of LLMs.
Preferred
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).