Manager of Forward Deployed Engineering, Anthropic
Applied AI
£255-325k
AI safety and research company
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AI safety and research company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£255-325k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience spanning enterprise AI/ML delivery, management consulting (Big 3 / Big 4), or enterprise tech professional services — with at least 3 years in a senior leadership capacity owning commercial outcomes
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and building processes where none exists — you've worked in early-stage, founder, or 0-to-1 environments, and can establish practices from scratch rather than executing within well-defined frameworks
- Deep domain expertise in your vertical: you should be able to speak credibly with a CEO, CIO, and other executive SMEs
- A track record of building and leading technical delivery teams in enterprise environments, ideally including embedded or forward-deployed engineers working at client sites
- Demonstrated ability to carry pipeline and close complex enterprise deals — you understand procurement, know how to navigate large organizations, and can move opportunities forward
- Strong technical fluency to review SOW scope, participate in architecture discussions, evaluate trade-offs, and judge whether a proposed approach is realistic — without being the one writing the code
- Experience navigating regulated industry environments
- Executive presence and communication skills: you can present to a board or run a difficult conversation
- Minimum education: Bachelor’s 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 aren't 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
What the job involves
- The Claude Agentic Solutions team is Anthropic's forward-deployed engine — embedding directly with Fortune 500 enterprises to architect, build, and deploy production AI agents that transform how they work
- We partner with companies that have decided AI is a strategic priority and need Anthropic alongside them to make it real
- You will own how Anthropic Solutions shows up in your industry segment — from the quality of individual engagements to the strategy that defines which problems we solve and for whom
- This is fundamentally a technical leadership role: you set the bar for delivery, develop your team's vertical expertise, and ensure every engagement produces outcomes worth repeating
- You will lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers — responsible for building not just individual solutions, but the reusable patterns, use case library, and engagement frameworks that allow the practice to scale
- Tech Leadership:
- Lead and grow a team of Forward Deployed Engineers and embedded within your vertical
- Provide active delivery oversight — review SOWs before signature, participate in architecture decisions on complex engagements, and serve as the escalation layer when delivery is at risk
- Develop your team's vertical fluency: help FDEs understand the regulatory environment, data constraints, and stakeholder dynamics specific to your industry
- Hire for your team: define role requirements, evaluate candidates, and make judgment calls on who will succeed in this specific context
- Serve as the senior Anthropic presence in strategic customer conversations, including C-suite and board-level engagements where enterprise AI direction is being set
- Run operating cadences — monthly engagement reviews, knowledge-sharing sessions, and escalation support for active engagements — while participating in or running client steering committees and unblocking delivery when at risk
- Use Case Library & Reusable Patterns
- Ensure the vertical use case library and reusable asset repository are maintained, prioritized, and mapped to business impact and implementation complexity
- Systematically surface learnings from delivery back to product and research teams, identifying where customer environments reveal model limitations, platform gaps, or roadmap opportunities
- Track emerging AI capabilities and assess their relevance for your vertical; bring forward new use case opportunities before clients ask for them
- Partner with product teams to ensure delivery insights translate into platform improvements and roadmap decisions
- Commercial Leadership:
- Partner with Marketing and Sales to develop vertical-specific GTM materials, reference cases, and positioning that reflect what actually wins in your industry
- Own the qualified pipeline for your vertical — working with Sales and Account Executives to identify, shape, and progress enterprise AI opportunities from first conversation to signed SOW
- Define how Anthropic goes to market with the Solutions offering in your vertical — including engagement structures, and partnership dynamics
- Represent your vertical internally — bring the voice of your segment into product, and go-to-market discussions at the leadership level
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Funded by Google and founded by ex-OpenAI employees, Anthropic is an AI company focused on building a reliable, innovative AI system. While the company is relatively new to the market it has already launched a highly anticipated AI chat assistant called Claude which is set to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Similar to other chatbots, Claude is accessible through a chat interface and can provide a number of conversation and text-processing tasks. A key point of differentiation is that Claude is designed to produce less harmful outputs than that of the other chatbots that came before it.
While there is much praise for the chat assistant, there is still room for improvement with feedback reporting that Claude is worse at maths and grammar compared to its rival. However, with industry giants like Google backing this company from an early stage, and a monumental Series F round of $13 billion awarded in 2025, the company is planning to enhance Claude and expand its presence in Europe. What's more, Anthropic's commitment to "Constitutional AI" positions it as a leader in the responsible development of artificial intelligence.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
190% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Feb 2026
$30bn
SERIES G
Sep 2025
$13bn
SERIES F
Total funding: $59.3bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
- Generous subsidy for OneMedical
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching
- $500/month flexible wellness stipend
- Commuter coverage
- Annual education stipend
- A home office improvement stipend when you first join
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dario Amodei
(Co-Founder & CEO)Spent almost 5 years at OpenAI as a Team Lead for AI safety and as the Vice President of Research. Also worked as a Research Scientist at Google.
Jared Kaplan
(Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer)Has been a Professor at John Hopkins University for the past 10 years. Also an experienced researcher having worked previously at OpenAI and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Jack Clark
(Co-Founder)Experienced reporter having worked previously at the Register and Bloomberg. Also worked for OpenAI in Strategy and Communications and as a Policy Director.
Sam McCandlish
(Co-Founder & CTO)Graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Theoretical Physics. Previously worked as a Research Lead at OpenAI.
Tom Brown
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Member of the Technical Staff for both OpenAI and Google Brain.
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