Applied AI Architect Lead, EMEA Commercial

Anthropics 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.

As the Lead of the Commercial Applied AI Architect team for EMEA you will drive the adoption of frontier AI by enabling the deployment of Anthropics products (Claude for Enterprise Claude Code and the API) across commercial accounts throughout Europe: companies with fewer than 2500 employees spanning digital-native businesses traditional industry verticals and private equity portfolio companies. Based in our Dublin office you will 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.

This is a player-coach role: you will personally own the technical win on a set of accounts while leading a team of 3 to 5 Applied AI Architects across Dublin and London. Youll establish the processes and best practices that let a lean team cover a high-velocity segment alongside a larger Dublin-based sales organisation 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 across the region.

In collaboration with Sales Product and Engineering teams youll help commercial customers across Europes diverse markets incorporate leading-edge AI systems into both internal business transformation initiatives and customer-facing products. You will employ your excellent communication skills to explain and demonstrate complex solutions persuasively to technical and non-technical audiences alike across multiple countries languages and regulatory environments. You will play a critical role in identifying opportunities to innovate and differentiate our AI systems while maintaining our best-in-class safety standards.

• Hire manage and mentor a team of Applied AI Architects across Dublin and London providing both technical guidance and career development
• Set goals and reviews for your team promoting growth and output
• Personally own the technical win on a handful of highest-value commercial customers focusing on pre-sales technical excellence including use case scoping technical champion building and POC execution
• Partner closely with the Dublin-based Commercial sales leadership to co-build go-to-market strategies and run the qualification and coverage model that drive adoption across the segments diverse verticals and European markets
• Own the technical portions of pre-sales engagements ensuring your team provides compelling demos and validates customer ROI from Anthropic products
• Develop scalable technical engagement frameworks and reusable assets that can be adapted across digital-native traditional industry and PE portfolio company contexts localised for different European markets and regulatory requirements
• Drive collaboration from cross-functional teams to influence and unify stakeholders at all levels of the organisation to drive business outcomes
• Travel across Europe to customer sites for executive-level sessions technical workshops and relationship building
• Establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI
• Lead the vision strategy and execution of innovative solutions that leverage our latest models capabilities
• Contribute to thought leadership through conference presentations webinars and technical content creation
• Stay current with emerging AI/ML trends and the competitive landscape across the European commercial segment

• 7 years of experience as a Solutions Architect Sales Engineer or similar pre-sales technical role
• 2 years leading pre-sales practitioners as a manager team lead or player-coach including hiring and developing technical talent
• Experience working with and selling to commercial or mid-market customers across multiple European markets and managing a distributed multi-lingual team across locations
• Experience supporting both internal enterprise use cases (productivity workflow transformation) and product-building use cases (API/platform integration)
• Deep technical proficiency with enterprise AI deployments API integrations and production LLM use cases
• Demonstrated ability to build scalable repeatable processes and frameworks that work across diverse customer segments and where technical resources are lean relative to sales
• An organisational mindset and enjoy building foundational teams in a relatively unstructured environment
• Excellent communication collaboration and coaching abilities
• Comfort dealing with highly uncertain ambiguous and fast-moving environments
• Strong executive presence and the ability to foster deep relationships with technical leaders and engineering teams
• At least a high-level familiarity with the architecture and operation of large language models and/or ML in general
• Experience with prompt engineering LLM evaluation and architecting AI-powered systems
• Ability to make ambiguous problems clear and identify core principles that translate across scenarios
• A passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial
• Creative thinking about the risks and benefits of new technologies beyond past checklists and playbooks
• Stay up-to-date and informed by taking an active interest in emerging research and industry trends

• Previous experience leading solutions architect or pre-sales teams through rapid growth or operating as a player-coach while building out a new function
• Fluency in an additional European language (e.g. French German Spanish or Italian)
• Experience with private equity portfolio companies or an understanding of PE-backed business dynamics
• A track record building technical playbooks and assets that scale across diverse customer segments
• Understanding of both digital-native technical requirements (API integration developer experience) and traditional enterprise needs (security compliance change management)
• Familiarity with EU AI regulations such as GDPR and the EU AI Act

Minimum education: Bachelors 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 arent 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 underrepresented 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 youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were 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.

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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. Were 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.

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 aboutour policy for using AI in our application process.