Applied AI Architect, Partnerships

Anthropic Anthropic · AI Frontier · Paris, France · Applied AI

This role is for an Applied AI Architect focused on pre-sales technical relationships with System Integrators and cloud partners (AWS, GCP). The goal is to accelerate indirect revenue by enabling partner AI practices and executing GTM strategy. Responsibilities include strategic technical partnership, joint solution development for GenAI applications, customer deal support, and representing Anthropic at partner events. The role requires strong client-facing technical experience, cloud architecture design, and familiarity with LLM frameworks or ML/data science.

What you'd actually do

  1. Be a technical thought partner to the Anthropic GTM partnerships team, providing technical expertise to better understand the partner landscape, driving key strategic programs, and identifying opportunities to deepen partner technical capabilities. Embed with GSI and cloud partner technical teams to enable their AI practices, support troubleshooting, evangelize Anthropic in their developer communities, and serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues.
  2. Collaborate with partners to identify high value industry-specific GenAI applications, develop joint solutions and codify reference architectures / best practices to accelerate time to deployment
  3. Intervene directly to unblock strategic customer deals where partners are the primary delivery vehicle, providing deep technical expertise and solution architecture guidance.
  4. Represent Anthropic at partner events such as GSI customer workshops, AWS summits, and industry conferences. Lead or support partner-specific developer events, hackathons, and technical enablement sessions, especially for technically native communities.Product Feedback: Valid

Skills

Required

  • client-facing technical roles
  • partner-facing technical roles
  • Solution Architect
  • Sales Engineer
  • Partner Account Manager
  • Technical Account Manager
  • partnerships with global system integrators
  • cloud service providers
  • complex technical problems
  • solution design
  • solution implementation
  • building rapport with diverse stakeholders
  • communicating technical concepts
  • senior executives
  • IT and engineering teams
  • technical presentation skills
  • technical communication skills
  • translating requirements
  • technical and business stakeholders
  • designing scalable cloud architectures
  • integrating with enterprise systems
  • familiarity with common LLM frameworks
  • background in machine learning
  • background in data science
  • inter-organizational collaboration
  • finding compromises
  • balancing competing priorities
  • teaching
  • mentoring
  • enabling others
  • creative thinking
  • safe and beneficial technology use
  • advancing safe AI systems

Nice to have

  • AWS
  • GCP

What the JD emphasized

  • more than 5 years of experience in client-facing and partner-facing technical roles
  • proven track record of successful partnerships
  • exceptional ability to build rapport
  • strong technical presentation and communication skills
  • familiarity with common LLM frameworks or a background in machine learning or data science

Other signals

  • GenAI applications
  • reference architectures
  • best practices
  • LLM frameworks