Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

Visa sponsorship: available – as stated by Anthropic on their careers website (Skilled Worker visa).

Anthropic is seeking a founding manager for its Forward Deployed Engineering team in London. The team helps major organisations put Claude to work in production applications that address real business needs, with safety and lasting impact in mind.

This is a player-coach leadership position: you will build the team and its operating practices while staying involved in technical decisions and customer work. You will partner with Sales, Product, Engineering and Engagement Managers, and share customer insights that can guide product development.

What you'll do:

• Recruit, develop and retain a strong team of Forward Deployed Engineers, providing regular coaching and career support.
• Allocate engineers across customer projects and help qualify and scope potential engagements.
• Review designs and code, and join discovery, prototyping or debugging when needed.
• Create reusable technical resources and team practices, and set goals tied to customer outcomes and product adoption.
• Bring lessons from customer work to Product and Engineering teams.
• Travel to customer locations when needed, particularly for project kickoffs and priority accounts.

What they're looking for:

• At least 10 years in software engineering, solutions architecture or a technical customer-facing discipline.
• Two or more years managing people in a services, post-sales or forward-deployed engineering team.
• Experience building a team or organisation from the ground up and working directly with enterprise customers.
• The ability to move between senior stakeholder discussions and practical technical problem-solving.
• Clear written and spoken communication, and enthusiasm for establishing a new team.

The stated annual salary is £255,000–£325,000 GBP. Anthropic expects staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time; this role may also involve 25–50% customer-site travel. Anthropic says it sponsors visas, but cannot successfully sponsor every role and every candidate.

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Apply directly on Anthropic's website using the button on this page.