Manager Applied AI Architecture, Financial Services
Anthropic· Applied AI
Hybrid (New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA)$315k - $380kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Manager of the Financial Services Solutions Architect team within Applied AI at Anthropic, leading pre-sales to drive adoption of frontier AI in banking, insurance, asset management, and payments. Responsible for hiring, guiding, and scaling a pre-sales team, partnering with GTM, and representing Anthropic at strategic customer engagements.
Responsibilities
- Hire, manage, and guide a team of pre-sales Solutions Architects by providing both technical guidance and career development.
- Set goals for your team that establish baseline expectations for performance in collaboration with sales and other cross-functional teams.
- Act as a technical sponsor for high-value strategic customers and advise them on their overall AI adoption strategies or top use case scoping and deployment.
- Partner closely with sales leadership to identify new strategies to drive adoption of Anthropic products within specific verticals or horizontal use cases.
- Work with cross-functional teams like product and engineering to ensure Anthropic prioritizes customer feedback or resolves blockers to adoption.
- Travel to customer sites or conferences for executive-level 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.
- Stay current with emerging AI trends and the evolving ecosystem.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience as a Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or similar pre-sales technical role.
- 3+ years of technical pre-sales management experience.
- Have sold complex technical products to Financial Services companies.
- Have deep technical proficiency with enterprise AI use cases and API integrations or enterprise solution rollouts.
- Understand how to contribute to running a GTM organization anchored on a consumption business model, not SaaS sales cycles.
- Thrive in building and rapidly scaling teams and processes within ambiguous and fast-moving environments.
- Have excellent communication, collaboration, and coaching abilities.
- Strong executive presence and ability to foster deep relationships with technical leaders and engineering teams.
- Have at least a high level familiarity with the architecture and operation of LLMs.
- Have a passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial.
- Stay up-to-date and informed by taking an active interest in emerging research and industry trends within AI.
Skills
Required:Solutions Architecture leadershipPre-sales managementEnterprise AI/LLM integrationsExecutive stakeholder engagementGTM / consumption-based sales models
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a collaborative office environment.
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Anthropic
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Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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