MP
$320,000 – $405,000
Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Lead a team of AI engineers embedded with Anthropic's largest strategic customers, guiding them through complex Claude implementations and translating their technical needs back into product strategy. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with customer advocacy, requiring someone equally comfortable debugging LLM systems and steering cross-functional relationships at the executive level.
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What they ask for
Required
- 6+ years in technical roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Software Engineer, Solutions/Sales Engineer, or Technical Product Manager
- 4+ years in formal leadership, ideally managing managers or multiple teams
- Demonstrated success hiring and scaling customer-facing technical teams in fast-moving environments
- Production experience with LLMs including prompt engineering, agent development, and deployment at scale
- Strong programming skills in Python or TypeScript
- Track record engaging senior technical stakeholders and influencing technical architecture
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and execute across domains
- High-cooperation mindset for cross-organizational collaboration
- Exceptional communication skills for diverse technical and non-technical audiences
Nice to have
- Background at a hyperscaler, foundation model lab, or large ISV in strategic-accounts or alliances role
- Experience with marketplace, embed/OEM, or co-sell motions
- Prior forward-deployed engineering leadership
- Experience leading technical teams through periods of rapid scale
- Experience coaching engineers from purely technical roles into customer-facing advisory work
- Executive briefing and public speaking presence