Head of International Applied AI Architecture, Partnerships

Anthropic Anthropic · AI Frontier · London, United Kingdom · Sales

This role leads a team of Partner Solutions Architects focused on driving the adoption and deployment of Anthropic's AI products (Claude) through global and regional system integrators, cloud partners, and strategic technology partners in international markets. The role involves managing and mentoring the team, serving as a senior technical thought partner for GTM partnerships, enabling partner AI practices, developing joint solutions, supporting partner-led pre-sales engagements, and representing Anthropic at international partner events. The focus is on enabling partners to incorporate leading-edge AI systems into their solutions and customer engagements to accelerate indirect revenue and execute international GTM strategy, while maintaining safety standards.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage and mentor a team of Applied AI, Partner Solutions Architects, providing both technical guidance and career development. Set goals and reviews for your team, promoting growth and output
  2. Serve as the senior technical thought partner to the Anthropic international GTM partnerships team, providing technical expertise to better understand the partner landscape, driving key strategic programs, and identifying opportunities to deepen partner technical capabilities across international markets
  3. Embed your team 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
  4. Lead your team in collaborating with partners to identify high-value industry-specific GenAI applications, develop joint solutions, and codify reference architectures / best practices to accelerate time to deployment across international markets
  5. Own the technical portions of partner-led pre-sales engagements, ensuring your team intervenes directly to unblock strategic customer deals where partners are the primary delivery vehicle, providing deep technical expertise and solution architecture guidance

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of experience in technical customer-facing/partner-facing roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Partner Sales Engineer, Technical Account Manager
  • 5+ years of technical go-to-market management experience, specifically managing pre-sales or partner-facing technical teams across EMEA, APAC, and other international regions.
  • Track record of successfully building and scaling partnerships with GSIs (e.g., Accenture, Deloitte, WPP, TCS, Infosys) and/or cloud providers (AWS, GCP) to solve complex technical challenges across international markets
  • Experience with the unique dynamics of partner-led selling and delivery, including indirect revenue models and partner enablement at scale
  • Deep technical proficiency with enterprise AI deployments, API integrations, and production LLM use cases
  • Exceptional ability to build relationships with and communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders including C-suite executives, engineering & IT teams, and partner leadership
  • Have an organizational mindset and enjoy building foundational teams in a relatively unstructured environment
  • Have excellent communication, collaboration, and coaching abilities
  • Are comfortable dealing with highly uncertain, ambiguous, and fast-moving environments
  • Strong executive presence and ability to foster deep relationships with technical leaders and partner engineering teams
  • Have 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

Nice to have

  • A love of teac

What the JD emphasized

  • partner-led selling and delivery
  • indirect revenue models
  • partner enablement at scale
  • enterprise AI deployments
  • production LLM use cases
  • architecting AI-powered systems

Other signals

  • driving adoption of frontier AI
  • enabling deployment of Anthropic's products
  • leading and growing a team of Partner Solutions Architects
  • establishing Anthropic's technical partner ecosystem
  • partner-led pre-sales engagements
  • accelerate indirect revenue
  • enable partner AI practices
  • enterprise AI deployments
  • production LLM use cases
  • architecting AI-powered systems