Head of ASEAN, Applied AI

About Anthropic

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. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About Anthropic

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. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

As the founding leader of Applied AI Solutions Architecture in Singapore, you will drive the adoption of frontier AI by enabling the deployment of Anthropic s products (Claude for Enterprise, Claude Code, and API) across ASEAN enterprises and digital-first organizations. You ll leverage your technical skills and consultative sales experience to drive positive AI transformation that addresses our customers business needs, meets their technical requirements, and provides a high degree of reliability and safety.

You ll be responsible for building and leading the ASEAN Applied AI team from the ground up. Applied AI comprises Solutions Architects, Product Engineers, and Finetuning Engineers. You will establish processes and best practices for the region s technical pre-sales engagements based on your years of experience, help each team member achieve success, high productivity, and career growth, and represent Anthropic as a technical lead on some of its most important partnerships across ASEAN.

In collaboration with the Sales, Product, and Engineering teams globally and locally, you ll help enterprise partners across ASEAN incorporate leading-edge AI systems into their cutting-edge products and platforms. You will employ your excellent communication skills to explain and demonstrate complex solutions persuasively to technical and non-technical audiences alike. You will play a critical role in identifying opportunities to innovate and differentiate our AI systems, while maintaining our best-in-class safety standards.

Responsibilities

Build and manage the foundational team of Applied AI professionals in ASEAN regions (Solutions Architects and Product Engineers) providing both technical guidance and career development
Set goals and reviews for your team, promoting growth and output
Work with a handful of highest-value enterprise customers across ASEAN on their overall AI adoption strategies, focusing on pre-sales technical excellence including use case scoping, technical champion building, and POC execution
Partner closely with your aligned GTM leadership to understand customer requirements and co-build GTM strategies to drive adoption for ASEAN enterprise customers
Contribute to thought leadership through conference presentations, webinars, and technical content creation within the ASEAN market
Own the technical portions of pre-sales engagements, ensuring your team provides compelling demos and validates enterprise customer ROI from Anthropic products
Drive collaboration from cross-functional teams to influence and unify stakeholders at all levels of the organization to drive business outcomes
Travel regularly to customer sites across ASEAN for executive-level sessions, technical workshops, and building relationships
Establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI in technology products
Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of innovative solutions that leverage our latest models capabilities
Stay current with emerging AI/ML trends and competitive landscape in the ASEAN enterprise tech sector, including the region s highly regulated industries (financial services, government, resources)

You may be a good fit if you have

15+ years of experience as a Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or similar pre-sales technical role
5+ years of technical go-to-market management experience, specifically managing pre-sales teams
Experience working with ASEAN enterprise customers and understanding local business culture, procurement processes, and decision-making dynamics across ASEAN
Familiarity with the ASEAN regulatory landscape (e.g., Singapore Privacy Principles, APRA CPS 234, data sovereignty requirements) and how it impacts enterprise AI deployments
Experience with the unique technical requirements and technical procurement process of enterprise tech companies
Deep technical proficiency with enterprise AI deployments, API integrations, and production LLM use cases
Have an organizational mindset and enjoy building foundational teams in a relatively unstructured environment
Have excellent communication, collaboration, and coaching abilities
Are comfortable dealing with highly uncertain, ambiguous, and fast-moving environments typical of the tech industry
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 large language models and/or ML in general
Experience with prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, and architecting AI-powered systems
Make ambiguous problems clear and identify core principles that can translate across scenarios
Have a passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial
Think creatively about the risks and benefits of new technologies, and think beyond past checklists and playbooks
Stay up-to-date and informed by taking an active interest in emerging research and industry trends
Understanding of developer tooling, SDKs, and technical integration patterns common in enterprise tech companies

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 and 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 a our policy for using AI in our application process.