Manager of Applied AI Architecture, Partnerships

Anthropic; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 315,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible working hours

Generous vacation and parental leave

Equity donation matching

Job summary

A leading AI technology firm in Seattle is looking for a Manager of Partnerships Applied AI Solutions Architect team. This role involves driving the adoption of AI products, leading a team of Partner Solutions Architects, and establishing best practices for technical partnerships. The ideal candidate has over 7 years in technical roles and is skilled in managing partnerships with key technology firms. Competitive salary range is available, along with flexible working arrangements and a focus on mentorship and growth.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in technical customer-facing or partner-facing roles.
• 3+ years managing partner-facing technical teams.
• Track record building partnerships with GSIs/cloud providers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Partner Solutions Architects.
• Act as a senior technical thought partner.
• Embed team with cloud partner technical teams.
• Own the technical portion of partner-led pre-sales engagements.
• Gather and validate product feedback from partners.

Skills

Technical customer-facing roles

Management of pre-sales teams

Partnership building

Enterprise AI deployments

Exceptional communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

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 Partnerships Applied AI Solutions Architect team, you will drive adoption of frontier AI by enabling deployment of Anthropic’s products (Claude for Enterprise, Claude Code, API) through our Global and Regional System Integrators, cloud partners (AWS, GCP, Azure), and strategic technology partners.

You will build and lead a team of Partner Solutions Architects, establish processes and best practices for partner‑led pre‑sales engagements, and represent Anthropic as the technical lead on its most important partnerships. In collaboration with Sales, Partnerships, Product, and Engineering, you will help partners incorporate leading‑edge AI into their practices, accelerate indirect revenue, and execute long‑term GTM strategy while maintaining our best‑in‑class safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Development: Hire, manage, and mentor a team of Partner Solutions Architects. Set goals, run reviews, and coach each team member toward high productivity and career growth.
• Strategic Technical Partnership: Act as the senior technical thought partner to Anthropic’s GTM partnerships team. Co‑build partner strategy with aligned GTM leadership, drive key programs, and align cross‑functional stakeholders (Sales, Product, Engineering) behind partner outcomes.
• Partner Enablement & Ecosystem: Embed your team with GSI and cloud partner technical teams to enable their AI practices, troubleshoot, and evangelize Anthropic in their developer communities. Represent Anthropic at partner events (GSI workshops, AWS/GCP summits, hackathons) and contribute technical content and thought leadership.
• Joint Solution Development: Lead partners in identifying high‑value, industry‑specific GenAI applications. Develop joint solutions and codify reference architectures and best practices to accelerate time to deployment.
• Customer Deal Support: Own the technical portion of partner‑led pre‑sales engagements. Intervene directly on strategic deals where partners are the primary delivery vehicle, providing deep solution architecture guidance.
• Product Feedback: Gather and validate feedback on Anthropic’s products from partner deployments and deliver it to Product and Engineering to inform roadmap and partner strategy.

You may be a good fit if you have

• 7+ years in technical customer‑facing or partner‑facing roles (Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Partner SE, TAM).
• 3+ years managing pre‑sales or partner‑facing technical teams; comfortable building foundational teams in ambiguous, fast‑moving environments.
• Track record building and scaling partnerships with GSIs (e.g., Accenture, Deloitte, TCS, Infosys) and/or cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Deep understanding of partner‑led selling and delivery: indirect revenue models, enablement at scale, and joint GTM motions.
• Technical depth in enterprise AI deployments: LLM architecture, prompt engineering, evaluation, API integrations, and production use cases.
• Exceptional communication and executive presence; able to build trusted relationships with C‑suite, partner leadership, and engineering teams alike.
• A love of teaching and mentoring, and a passion for advancing safe, beneficial AI.

Strong candidates may also have

• 5+ years leading partner‑facing SA teams through hypergrowth, including developing both senior and junior talent.
• Direct experience helping GSIs or consultancies build their AI/ML practice - enablement programs, certification paths, joint solution development.

Annual Salary

$315,000—$380,000 USD

Logistics

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
• Location‑based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from under‑represented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

How We're Different

We believe that the highest‑impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large‑scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long‑term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest‑impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT‑3, Circuit‑Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

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