Founding Forward-Deployed Engineering Manager

Fdetimes; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 255,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a founding Forward Deployed Engineer Manager to build and scale a high-performing team embedded with strategic customers. You will set technical and operational standards, hire and mentor engineers, and drive field insights into product direction while balancing people development and delivery responsibilities.

You'll partner with Sales, Product, and Engineering to shape engagement strategy, ensure quality solutions, and maintain executive-level customer relationships.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, solutions architecture, or technical customer-facing roles.
• 2+ years of people management within a services/post-sales/FDE organization.
• Experience building organizations from 0→1, not just maintaining existing teams.
• Experience working with enterprise customers on technical implementations.
• Executive presence with ability to navigate strategic conversations and hands-on debugging.
• Strong written and verbal communication, translating complexity for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Hire, develop, and retain a world-class team of Forward Deployed Engineers.
• Provide technical mentorship and invest in career growth of each team member.
• Staff and oversee customer engagements across the team's portfolio.
• Collaborate with account teams during pre-sales to qualify engagements and scope work.
• Review architectures and code to ensure high-quality, production-ready solutions.
• Lead technical discovery sessions and prototype solutions when needed.
• Build repeatable playbooks, repositories, and knowledge bases.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Enterprise engagement

Architectural review

Mentoring

Strategic communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a founding Forward Deployed Engineer Manager to build and scale a high-performing team embedded with strategic customers. You will set technical and operational standards, hire and mentor engineers, and drive field insights into product direction while balancing people development and delivery responsibilities.

You'll partner with Sales, Product, and Engineering to shape engagement strategy, ensure quality solutions, and maintain executive-level customer relationships.