Head of Applied AI Architecture, Beneficial Deployments

You'll combine deep technical fluency with the leadership judgment needed to operate across segments, regions, and partner types—from global health foundations to leading research institutions to frontline nonprofits. You'll set the vision for how we scale our expertise from a handful of flagship partnerships to an ecosystem of organizations operating as AI-native, and you'll be accountable for the team, processes, and cross-functional relationships that make that possible.

In collaboration with Beneficial Deployment’s Head of Nonprofits, Product, Engineering, Policy, and our broader GTM organization, you'll help ensure our partners incorporate Claude into their work responsibly, effectively, and in ways that meaningfully accelerate their missions. You'll represent Anthropic as a senior technical leader on some of our most visible and consequential partnerships, while maintaining our best-in-class safety standards.

Responsibilities

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Lead, grow, and mentor a globally distributed team of Architects supporting mission-driven non-profits across education, global health, economic mobility, and life sciences

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Set the vision, strategy, and operating model for how Applied AI shows up in Beneficial Deployments—from discovery through deployment, and from individual partnerships to ecosystem-wide infrastructure

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Establish hiring plans, team structure, and career development paths as we scale the team globally; set goals and reviews that promote growth, output, and a high bar for technical excellence

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Partner closely with segment leads and senior partner leadership to understand requirements and shape engagements on our highest-impact partnerships

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Drive the design of cohort-based accelerators, Claude Code enablement programs, and other scalable mechanisms that multiply our impact across many organizations simultaneously

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Identify patterns across partners and segments to inform what we build at the ecosystem level—MCPs, evals, reference implementations, and shared infrastructure

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Collaborate with Product and Engineering to surface partner needs, influence roadmap, and ensure learnings from the field shape how Claude evolves

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Represent Anthropic externally with senior leaders at foundations, nonprofits, research institutions, and government-adjacent organizations

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Travel to partner sites globally for workshops, technical deep dives, and relationship building

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Help shape team processes and culture as Beneficial Deployments scales, and contribute to the broader Applied AI leadership community at Anthropic

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Travel is 30-40% due to the global nature of the team (SF, NYC, London and Bengaluru) and events across Beneficial Deployments.

You may be a good fit if you have

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10+ years of experience in technical, customer-facing roles (Solutions Architect, Forward Deployed Engineer, Customer Engineer, Sales Engineer, or similar), with meaningful exposure to complex, high-stakes deployments

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7+ years of engineering or technical leadership experience, preferably building and scaling customer-facing or forward-deployed teams globally

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Experience working with or inside mission-driven organizations—education, healthcare, scientific research, global development, or nonprofits—and a genuine understanding of the constraints, incentives, and operating realities of these sectors

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Familiarity with common LLM implementation patterns, including prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, agent frameworks, and retrieval systems; working knowledge of Python

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A track record of building teams in ambiguous, fast-moving environments, and comfort wearing multiple hats as the team scales

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Strong executive presence and the ability to foster deep, trusted relationships with senior partner leadership

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Excellent communication, collaboration, and coaching abilities, with a love of teaching and helping others succeed

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The ability to think holistically, identify core principles that translate across scenarios, and make ambiguous problems clear

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A passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial, and for thinking creatively about risks and benefits beyond existing playbooks

Strong candidates may also have

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Experience leading globally distributed teams across time zones and regions

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Background in philanthropy, global health, education technology, or scientific research

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Experience designing cohort-based or programmatic delivery models that scale technical expertise across many organizations

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A working understanding of emerging research in agents, evaluations, and AI safety

About the team

Beneficial Deployments ensures AI reaches and benefits the communities that need it most. We partner with nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven organizations to deploy Claude in education, global health, economic mobility, and life sciences, focusing on raising the floor for the people and institutions working on humanity's hardest problems.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$315,000—$380,000 USD

Logistics

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. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.