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Anthropic

Builds Claude AI models with a focus on safety

Head of Southern Europe & MEA - Applied AI

Pre-Sales Solution EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeParis, France€265k - €310k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • More than 7 years of technical pre-sales management experience, including second-line leadership or above and management of managers.
  • Experience selling complex technical products to large enterprises in France, Iberia, Italy, the Middle East, and Africa.
  • Experience across multiple industries, including financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, telecommunications, retail, and energy.
  • Understanding of cultural differences across Southern European markets and the regulatory context of customers, with the ability to adapt approach accordingly.
  • Ability to develop strategic plans for complex industry accounts that teams and sales counterparts can execute.
  • Deep technical proficiency with enterprise AI use cases, API integrations, and LLM deployments.
  • Ability to build and rapidly scale teams and processes in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and coaching abilities.
  • Executive presence and ability to develop relationships with business and technical leaders at large regional companies.
  • At least high-level familiarity with LLM architecture and operation.
  • Active interest in emerging AI research and industry trends.
  • Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a field relevant to the role, as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Responsibilities

  • Hire, manage, and guide first-line managers who will build teams of pre-sales Applied AI Architects across France, Iberia, and Italy.
  • Set team goals in collaboration with sales leadership and establish baseline performance expectations.
  • Serve as technical and executive sponsor for high-value strategic customers and advise them on AI adoption strategies, use-case scoping, and pilot execution.
  • Partner with Southern Europe sales leadership, which also covers the Middle East and Africa, to develop strategies for complex industry accounts and identify ways to increase product adoption within verticals or horizontal use cases.
  • Help customers navigate local and European regulatory requirements, including the EU AI Act, GDPR, DORA, and data-residency expectations, and adapt team engagement to each market’s business culture.
  • Work with cross-functional teams such as product and engineering to prioritize customer feedback and resolve regional adoption blockers.
  • Travel regularly across Southern Europe to visit customers and attend conferences for executive sessions, technical workshops, and relationship building.
  • Establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI in technology products.
  • Contribute to thought leadership through conference presentations, webinars, and technical content creation.
  • Monitor emerging AI trends and the competitive landscape.

Desired Qualifications

  • More than 5 years leading solution-architect teams through hypergrowth, ideally teams of dozens across multiple countries, with direct experience managing managers and developing talent in complex enterprise software sales environments.
  • Fluency in one or more of French, Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese in addition to English, and experience leading teams distributed across multiple countries.
  • Experience designing go-to-market frameworks based on consumption business models rather than solely SaaS licenses.

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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