Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
This listing is for a Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering role at anthropic, in Paris, France. The listing describes it as a full-time, management position with hybrid working.
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This listing is for a Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering role at anthropic, in Paris, France. The listing describes it as a full-time, management position with hybrid working.
From the advert, the main requirements are 10+ years of experience.
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Benefits mentioned in the advert: parental leave, bonus and flexible hours.
Visa sponsorship is not mentioned. Applicants from outside France should check the official work permit route before applying.
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- Employer
- anthropic
- Location
- Paris, France
- Work mode
- hybrid
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level (from the title)
- management
- Pay
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- Experience asked
- 10+ years
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- Nov 4, 2026 on Arbeitnow
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About the role
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01About 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.
02À propos du rôle
Anthropic construit l’équipe Applied AI pour aider les organisations les plus ambitieuses du monde à adopter Claude de manière transformatrice, sûre et durable. Nos Forward Deployed Engineers s’intègrent directement auprès de clients stratégiques pour déployer des applications d’IA en production qui résolvent de véritables problèmes métier. À mesure que cette pratique se développe, nous avons besoin d’une personne leader pour construire et développer cette équipe.
En tant que premier Forward Deployed Manager en Europe du Sud, vous piloterez l’équipe qui se situe à la frontière du déploiement d’IA en entreprise. Vous recruterez et développerez une équipe performante de Forward Deployed Engineers, fixerez le standard technique et opérationnel pour les engagements clients, et construirez les playbooks qui transforment les succès ponctuels en modèles reproductibles. Vous travaillerez en étroite collaboration avec les Engagement Managers qui gèrent la logistique de livraison et les relations avec les parties prenantes, tout en veillant à ce que votre équipe livre du code de qualité, se développe techniquement, et représente Anthropic au plus haut niveau dans les environnements clients.
Ce rôle est un rôle de meneur-contributeur avec une forte orientation leadership. Vous resterez assez impliqué dans le travail technique pour examiner les architectures, déboguer les problèmes en production, et vous associer à votre équipe quand cela compte, mais votre impact principal viendra des personnes que vous recruterez, des standards que vous fixerez, et de la culture que vous créerez. Vous collaborerez de manière transversale avec les équipes Ventes, Produit et Ingénierie pour façonner la manière dont Anthropic sert ses clients les plus stratégiques, et les insights de terrain de votre équipe influenceront directement la direction produit.
Ce rôle nécessite quelqu’un qui s’épanouit dans l’ambiguïté et qui est énergisé par la création à partir de zéro. Vous définirez ce que l’excellence ressemble pour la gestion d’une équipe FDE chez Anthropic, il n’existe pas de playbook existant à suivre.
03Responsabilités
- Recruter, développer et fidéliser une équipe de classe mondiale de Forward Deployed Engineers. Fixer un haut standard pour le talent technique et l’instinct client.
- Mener des entretiens individuels réguliers, fournir du mentorat technique, et investir dans la progression de carrière de chaque membre de l’équipe. Créer un environnement où les Forward Deployed Engineers accomplissent leur meilleur travail.
- Staffier et superviser les engagements clients dans le portefeuille de votre équipe, en prenant des décisions d’allocation des ressources qui équilibrent les besoins clients, le développement de l’équipe, et les priorités métier.
- Collaborer avec les équipes de compte et les Engagement Managers pendant le processus de pré-vente pour qualifier les engagements, définir le périmètre du travail, et informer les demandes de travail.
- Examiner les architectures techniques et le code produit par vos Forward Deployed Engineers, en veillant à ce que l’équipe livre des solutions production de haute qualité qui résolvent de véritables problèmes clients.
- Rester assez impliqué pour diriger des sessions de découverte technique, prototyper des solutions, et déboguer des problèmes complexes aux côtés de votre équipe quand cela est nécessaire.
- Construire des playbooks reproductibles, des dépôts de démarrage, des modèles d’intégration, et une base de connaissances interne qui capture ce que votre équipe apprend sur le terrain.
- Définir les OKRs de l’équipe liés aux résultats de succès client et aux objectifs d’adoption produit. Créer des cadences opérationnelles, standups, rétros, revues d’engagement, qui maintiennent l’équipe alignée.
- Collaborer avec Produit et Ingénierie pour traduire les insights de terrain en améliorations produit. Servir comme voix du client dans la planification interne.
- Voyager sur les sites des clients selon les besoins (25-50%), particulièrement lors des lancements d’engagement et pour les comptes prioritaires de votre équipe.
04Vous pourriez être un bon fit si vous avez
- 10+ ans d’expérience en ingénierie logicielle, architecture de solutions, ou dans un rôle technique orienté client comme l’ingénierie forward deployed ou le conseil.
- 2+ ans d’expérience en gestion de personnes au sein d’une organisation de services/post-vente/FDE avec un palmarès de recrutement, développement et fidélisation d’ingénieurs performants.
- De l’expérience dans la construction d’organisations de zéro à un, pas seulement l’héritage d’une organisation existante.
- De l’expérience de travail direct avec des clients d’entreprise sur des mises en œuvre techniques, y compris l’aisance à naviguer dans les dynamiques organisationnelles complexes.
- Une présence de cadre avec la capacité à naviguer fluidement entre les conversations stratégiques avec les parties prenantes senior et les sessions de débogage pratiques avec les ingénieurs.
- Des compétences fortes en communication écrite et verbale. Vous pouvez traduire la complexité technique en narratifs clairs pour des audiences diverses.
- Un enthousiasme sincère pour la construction de quelque chose de nouveau et la définition de l’excellence pour une équipe qui n’existe pas encore.
05Pourquoi ce rôle compte
Vous serez une personne leader fondatrice d’une équipe qui définit comment les entreprises adoptent et déploient l’IA. Votre travail influencera directement la direction produit d’Anthropic, créera des modèles réutilisables pour la base clients plus large, et établira Anthropic comme le partenaire de confiance pour la transformation de l’IA, tout en promouvant le développement responsable des systèmes d’IA de pointe.
06About the role
Anthropic is building the Applied AI team to help the world's most ambitious organizations adopt Claude in ways that are transformative, safe, and lasting. Our Forward Deployed Engineers embed directly with strategic customers to ship production AI applications that solve real business problems. As this practice grows, we need a founding leader to build and scale it.
As the first FDE Manager in Southern Europe, you'll own the team that sits at the frontier of enterprise AI deployment. You'll hire and develop a high-performing team of FDEs, set the technical and operational bar for customer engagements, and build the playbooks that turn one-off successes into repeatable patterns. You'll work hand-in-hand with Engagement Managers who own delivery logistics and stakeholder management, while you ensure your team is shipping quality code, growing technically, and representing Anthropic at the highest level in customer environments.
This is a player-coach role with a strong bias toward leadership. You'll stay close enough to the technical work to review architectures, debug production issues, and pair with your team when it matters, but your primary impact will come from the people you hire, the standards you set, and the culture you create. You'll partner cross-functionally with Sales, Product, and Engineering to shape how Anthropic serves its most strategic customers, and your team's field insights will directly influence product direction.
This role requires someone who thrives in ambiguity and is energized by building from zero to one. You'll be defining what good looks like for FDE management at Anthropic, there is no existing playbook to follow.
07Responsibilities
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Hire, develop, and retain a world-class team of Forward Deployed Engineers. Set a high bar for technical talent and customer instincts.
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Conduct regular 1:1s, provide technical mentorship, and invest in the career growth of each team member. Create an environment where FDEs do the best work of their careers.
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Staff and oversee customer engagements across your team's portfolio, making resource allocation decisions that balance customer needs, team development, and business priorities.
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Collaborate with account teams and Engagement Managers during the pre-sales process to qualify engagements, scope work, and inform statements of work.
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Review technical architectures and code produced by your FDEs, ensuring the team ships high-quality, production-ready solutions that solve real customer problems.
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Stay hands-on enough to lead technical discovery sessions, prototype solutions, and debug complex issues alongside your team when needed.
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Build repeatable playbooks, starter repositories, integration templates, and an internal knowledge base that captures what your team learns in the field.
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Define team OKRs that tie to customer success outcomes and product adoption goals. Create operational cadences, standups, retros, engagement reviews, that keep the team aligned.
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Partner with Product and Engineering to translate field insights into product improvements. Serve as the voice of the customer in internal planning.
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Travel to customer sites as needed (25-50%), particularly during engagement kickoffs and for your team's highest-priority accounts.
08You may be a good fit if you have
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10+ years of experience in software engineering, solutions architecture, or a technical customer-facing role such as forward deployed engineering or consulting.
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2+ years of people management experience within a services/post-sales/FDE organization with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers.
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Experience building organizations from 0->1, not just inheriting an existing one.
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Experience working directly with enterprise customers on technical implementations, including comfort navigating complex organizational dynamics.
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Executive presence with the ability to move fluidly between strategic conversations with senior stakeholders and hands-on debugging sessions with engineers.
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Strong written and verbal communication skills. You can translate technical complexity into clear narratives for diverse audiences.
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Genuine excitement about building something new and defining what great looks like for a team that doesn't yet exist.
09Why this role matters
You'll be a founding leader of a team that defines how enterprises adopt and scale AI. Your work will directly influence Anthropic's product direction, create reusable patterns for the broader customer base, and establish Anthropic as the trusted partner for AI transformation, all while advancing the responsible development of frontier AI systems.
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:
€235.000-€295.000 EUR
10Logistics
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.
Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you ----- addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links-visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
11How 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.
12Come 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.
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