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Anthropic

Builds Claude AI models with a focus on safety

Manager – Forward Deployed Engineering

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeParis, France€235k - €295k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of experience in software engineering, solutions architecture, or a technical customer-facing role such as forward deployed engineering or consulting.
  • At least 2 years of people-management experience within a services, post-sales, or forward deployed engineering organization, with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers.
  • Experience building organizations from zero to one rather than only inheriting an existing organization.
  • Experience working directly with enterprise customers on technical implementations, including navigating complex organizational dynamics.
  • Executive presence and the ability to move between strategic conversations with senior stakeholders and hands-on debugging sessions with engineers.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical complexity into clear narratives for diverse audiences.
  • A bachelor's degree, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. A field relevant to the role may be demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Responsibilities

  • Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team of Forward Deployed Engineers, setting a high bar for technical talent and customer instincts.
  • Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, provide technical mentorship, and invest in each team member's career growth.
  • Staff and oversee customer engagements across the team's portfolio, making resource-allocation decisions that balance customer needs, team development, and business priorities.
  • Collaborate with account teams and Engagement Managers during pre-sales to qualify engagements, scope work, and inform statements of work.
  • Review the team's technical architectures and code to ensure it delivers high-quality, production-ready solutions to customer problems.
  • Lead technical discovery sessions, prototype solutions, and debug complex issues alongside the team as needed.
  • Build repeatable playbooks, starter repositories, integration templates, and an internal knowledge base based on field learnings.
  • Define team OKRs tied to customer-success outcomes and product-adoption goals, and establish standups, retrospectives, and engagement reviews to keep the team aligned.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to translate field insights into product improvements and represent the customer perspective in internal planning.
  • Travel to customer sites as needed, approximately 25–50%, particularly for engagement kickoffs and the team's highest-priority accounts.
  • Set technical and operational standards for customer engagements, build repeatable approaches from initial customer successes, and contribute to the culture and development of the team.

Desired Qualifications

  • Genuine enthusiasm for building something new and defining standards for a team that does not yet exist.

About the Company

Anthropic

Builds Claude AI models with a focus on safety

Anthropic builds the Claude family of AI models and sells them to businesses, software developers, and consumers, with research on making AI safe and understandable at the center of its work. In 2024 it introduced the Model Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI assistants to outside apps and data that OpenAI and Google adopted the next year. People use the Claude app to write and analyze files, programmers hand coding tasks to Claude Code, and companies build Claude into their own products through its API. Anthropic earns money from subscriptions, business plans, and usage-based API fees. Siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei founded Anthropic in 2021 with other former OpenAI employees, and it is based in San Francisco.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
N/A
Total funding
$243.8B
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2021

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