Head of Applied AI Architects, Beneficial Deployments (Non-profits & Higher Ed)

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole.

As the Global Leader of Applied AI Architects for Beneficial Deployments, you will lead the team of Applied AI Architects who serve as the primary technical partners to mission-driven organizations and non-profits adopting Claude. You'll build and scale a world-class, globally distributed team that turns frontier AI into real impact in education, global health, economic mobility, and life sciences.

• Lead, grow, and mentor a globally distributed team of Architects supporting mission-driven non-profits.
• Set the vision, strategy, and operating model for Applied AI in Beneficial Deployments.
• Establish hiring plans, team structure, and career development paths.
• Partner with segment leads and senior partner leadership.
• Drive design of cohort-based accelerators and Claude Code enablement programs.
• Identify patterns across partners to inform ecosystem-level infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to influence roadmap.
• Represent Anthropic externally with senior leaders.
• Travel to partner sites globally (30-40%).

• 10+ years in technical, customer-facing roles (Solutions Architect, Forward Deployed Engineer, etc.).
• 7+ years of engineering or technical leadership experience.
• Experience with mission-driven organizations.
• Familiarity with LLM implementation patterns, including prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, agent frameworks, and retrieval systems; working knowledge of Python.
• Track record of building teams in ambiguous environments.
• Strong executive presence and communication skills.

Annual Salary: $315,000—$380,000 USD

Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours.

Apply via the Greenhouse link.