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Head of Southern Europe & MEA, Applied AI

Anthropic · Paris, France · Hybrid

LeadershipHybridParis, France€265,000 – €310,000 EUR
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Head of Southern Europe & MEA, Applied AI at Anthropic is defined by the responsibilities and candidate requirements in the employer's listing.

The published role emphasizes work such as Hire, manage, and guide a team of 1st line managers who will in turn build teams of pre-sales Applied AI Architects across France, Iberia and Italy.

The role is listed for Paris, France with a hybrid working arrangement, giving candidates the practical context needed to assess fit before applying.

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Role focusLeadership
LocationParis, France
WorkplaceHybrid
Salary€265,000 – €310,000 EUR
PostedOct 19, 2026
Last seenNov 3, 2026
Role context

About This Role

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.

What the role delivers

Key Responsibilities & Objectives

  • Hire, manage, and guide a team of 1st line managers who will in turn build teams of pre-sales Applied AI Architects across France, Iberia and Italy.
  • Set goals for your team in collaboration with sales leadership and establish baseline expectations for performance across your team.
  • Act as a technical and executive sponsor for high-value strategic customers in the region and advise them on their overall AI adoption strategies or use case scoping and pilot execution.
  • Partner closely with Southern Europe sales leadership (also covering the Middle-East and Africa) to build strategies for complex industry accounts and identify new ways to drive adoption of Anthropic products within specific verticals or horizontal use cases.
  • Help customers navigate local and European regulatory requirements (for example the EU AI Act, GDPR, DORA, and data residency expectations) and adapt how your team engages to the business culture of each market.
  • Work with cross-functional teams like product and engineering to ensure Anthropic prioritizes customer feedback or resolves blockers to adoption in the region.
  • Travel regularly across Southern Europe to customers or conferences for executive-level sessions, technical workshops, and relationship building.
  • Establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI in technology products.
  • Contribute to thought leadership through conference presentations, webinars, and technical content creation.
  • Stay current with emerging AI trends and the competitive landscape.
Candidate blueprint

Required Qualifications & Candidate Blueprint

  • Strong executive presence and ability to foster deep relationships with business and technical leaders at the region's largest companies.
  • Have at least a high level familiarity with the architecture and operation of LLMs.
  • Experience with consumption business models: Ideal candidates have built GTM frameworks anchored on consumption, not just SaaS-based licenses.
Compensation & benefits

Salary & Benefits

Published compensation: €265,000 – €310,000 EUR

  • 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.
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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.

À propos du poste

En tant que responsable de deuxième niveau de l’équipe Applied AI Industries pour l’Europe du Sud et le Moyen-Orient chez Anthropic, vous stimulerez l’adoption de l’IA de pointe en partenariat avec le reste de l’organisation commerciale (go-to-market). Nos clients Industries en France, dans la péninsule Ibérique et en Italie comptent parmi les plus grandes entreprises de la région, dans les services financiers, la santé et les sciences de la vie, l’industrie manufacturière, les télécommunications, la distribution, l’énergie et d’autres secteurs. Vous vous appuierez sur votre expérience de la création et du management d’équipes d’avant-vente technique pour favoriser une transformation positive par l’IA, qui réponde aux besoins métier de nos clients et à leurs exigences techniques et réglementaires, tout en offrant un haut niveau de fiabilité et de sécurité.

Vous dirigerez et développerez l’équipe d’architectes de solutions qui travaille avec les account executives pour aider les entreprises à adopter et à déployer les produits d’Anthropic, notamment Claude Cowork, Claude Code et la Claude Development Platform (notre API). Vous mettrez à profit vos compétences techniques et votre expérience de la vente consultative pour recruter d’excellents managers de premier niveau et contributeurs individuels, mettre en place les processus nécessaires au passage à l’échelle de votre équipe et représenter directement Anthropic lors d’échanges stratégiques avec les clients. Votre équipe couvrant simultanément plusieurs pays et secteurs, il vous reviendra d’aborder de manière stratégique les comptes complexes et d’identifier et de déployer des solutions adaptées à chaque marché, avec sa langue, sa culture d’entreprise et son contexte réglementaire.

Responsabilités

  • Recruter, manager et accompagner une équipe de managers de premier niveau qui constitueront à leur tour des équipes d’Applied AI Architects avant-vente en France, dans la péninsule Ibérique et en Italie.
  • Définir les objectifs de votre équipe en collaboration avec la direction commerciale et établir les attentes de base en matière de performance.
  • Jouer le rôle de sponsor technique et exécutif auprès de clients stratégiques à forte valeur dans la région, et les conseiller sur leur stratégie globale d’adoption de l’IA, le cadrage de leurs cas d’usage et la conduite de leurs projets pilotes.
  • Collaborer étroitement avec la direction commerciale Europe du Sud (qui couvre également le Moyen-Orient et l’Afrique) pour élaborer des stratégies pour les comptes complexes et identifier de nouveaux moyens de stimuler l’adoption des produits d’Anthropic, par secteur ou par cas d’usage transverse.
  • Aider les clients à répondre aux exigences réglementaires locales et européennes (par exemple le règlement européen sur l’IA, le RGPD, DORA et les attentes en matière de résidence des données), et adapter l’approche de votre équipe à la culture d’entreprise de chaque marché.
  • Travailler avec des équipes transverses, comme le produit et l’ingénierie, pour qu’Anthropic priorise les retours clients ou lève les obstacles à l’adoption dans la région.
  • Vous déplacer régulièrement en Europe du Sud, chez des clients ou lors de conférences, pour des sessions avec des dirigeants, des ateliers techniques et le développement de relations.
  • Établir une vision commune pour la création de solutions favorisant une IA bénéfique et sûre dans les produits technologiques.
  • Contribuer au leadership d’opinion par des interventions en conférence, des webinaires et la création de contenus techniques.
  • Suivre les tendances émergentes de l’IA et l’évolution du paysage concurrentiel.

Ce poste pourrait vous correspondre si vous:

  • Justifiez de plus de 7 ans d’expérience en management d’équipes d’avant-vente technique, dont une expérience de management de deuxième niveau ou supérieur (management de managers).
  • Avez vendu des produits techniques complexes à de grandes entreprises en France, dans la péninsule Ibérique, en Italie, au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique.
  • Avez travaillé dans plusieurs secteurs, tels que les services financiers, la santé et les sciences de la vie, l’industrie manufacturière, les télécommunications, la distribution et l’énergie.
  • Comprenez les différences culturelles entre les marchés d’Europe du Sud et le contexte réglementaire de vos clients, et adaptez votre approche à chacun.
  • Abordez de manière très stratégique les comptes complexes et savez traduire cette réflexion en plans que votre équipe et vos homologues commerciaux peuvent exécuter.
  • Possédez une solide maîtrise technique des cas d’usage de l’IA en entreprise, des intégrations d’API et des déploiements de LLM.
  • Excellez dans la création et le développement rapide d’équipes et de processus au sein d’environnements ambigus et en évolution rapide.
  • Disposez d’excellentes capacités de communication, de collaboration et de coaching.
  • Faites preuve d’une forte présence auprès des dirigeants et savez nouer des relations approfondies avec les responsables métier et techniques des plus grandes entreprises de la région.
  • Connaissez au moins dans les grandes lignes l’architecture et le fonctionnement des LLM.
  • Êtes passionné(e) par l’idée de rendre les technologies puissantes sûres et bénéfiques pour la société.
  • Restez informé(e) en vous intéressant activement à la recherche émergente et aux tendances du secteur de l’IA.

Les candidatures les plus solides pourront présenter:

  • Une expérience de direction de l’avant-vente en entreprise à grande échelle : plus de 5 ans à la tête d’équipes d’architectes de solutions en hypercroissance (idéalement plusieurs dizaines de personnes dans plusieurs pays), avec une expérience directe du management de managers et du développement des talents dans des environnements complexes de vente de logiciels aux grandes entreprises.
  • Une ouverture multilingue et multiculturelle : en plus de l’anglais, la maîtrise courante d’une ou de plusieurs des langues suivantes : français, italien, espagnol ou portugais, ainsi qu’une expérience du management d’équipes réparties dans plusieurs pays.
  • Une expérience des modèles économiques à la consommation : idéalement, vous avez conçu des cadres go-to-market fondés sur la consommation, et pas uniquement sur des licences SaaS.


À vérifier avant publication

  • Le périmètre n’est pas cohérent : le poste est présenté comme couvrant l’Europe du Sud et le Moyen-Orient, mais les équipes et les clients cités se limitent à la France, à la péninsule Ibérique et à l’Italie. Pourtant, l’expérience de vente demandée inclut aussi le Moyen-Orient et l’Afrique. Tel quel, ce critère peut écarter de bons profils, à moins que ce soit réellement un prérequis.
  • Le niveau technique attendu est ambigu : le texte demande à la fois une « solide maîtrise » des déploiements de LLM et une connaissance « dans les grandes lignes » de leur architecture. J’ai traduit fidèlement, mais il vaut mieux préciser le niveau attendu.
  • Le titre doit être inclusif : pour une publication en France, ajoutez « H/F » ou une mention équivalente au titre du poste. Faites valider ce point par le service juridique ou RH.
  • Les noms de produits sont à confirmer : j’ai conservé « Claude Cowork » et « Claude Development Platform » tels quels. Vérifiez qu’ils sont toujours à jour, car les capacités de Cowork font désormais partie de Claude.
  • Une coquille est corrigée dans cette version seulement : « Multilingual » reste à corriger dans l’original anglais.

About the Role:

As the 2nd-line leader for the Applied AI Industries team in Southern Europe and the Middle-East at Anthropic, you will drive the adoption of frontier AI in partnership with the rest of the go to market organization. Our Industries customers in France, Iberia and Italy include many of the region's largest enterprises across financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, telecom, retail, energy, and other sectors. You'll leverage your experience building and leading technical sales teams to drive positive AI transformation that addresses our customers' business needs, meets their technical and regulatory requirements, and provides a high degree of reliability and safety.

You will be responsible for leading and growing the solutions architect team that partners with account executives to help companies adopt and deploy Anthropic's products, including Claude Cowork, Claude Code, and the Claude Development Platform (our API). This will include leveraging your technical skills and consultative sales experience to hire great 1st line managers and individual contributors, establish processes to scale your team, and represent Anthropic directly at strategic customer engagements. Your team covers several countries and industries at once, so you will be responsible for thinking strategically about complex industry accounts and for identifying and rolling out solutions that resonate in each market, with its own language, business culture, and regulatory context.

Responsibilities:

  • Hire, manage, and guide a team of 1st line managers who will in turn build teams of pre-sales Applied AI Architects across France, Iberia and Italy.
  • Set goals for your team in collaboration with sales leadership and establish baseline expectations for performance across your team.
  • Act as a technical and executive sponsor for high-value strategic customers in the region and advise them on their overall AI adoption strategies or use case scoping and pilot execution.
  • Partner closely with Southern Europe sales leadership (also covering the Middle-East and Africa) to build strategies for complex industry accounts and identify new ways to drive adoption of Anthropic products within specific verticals or horizontal use cases.
  • Help customers navigate local and European regulatory requirements (for example the EU AI Act, GDPR, DORA, and data residency expectations) and adapt how your team engages to the business culture of each market.
  • Work with cross-functional teams like product and engineering to ensure Anthropic prioritizes customer feedback or resolves blockers to adoption in the region.
  • Travel regularly across Southern Europe to customers or conferences for executive-level sessions, technical workshops, and relationship building.
  • Establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI in technology products.
  • Contribute to thought leadership through conference presentations, webinars, and technical content creation.
  • Stay current with emerging AI trends and the competitive landscape.

You may be a good fit if you:

  • 7+ years of technical pre-sales management experience, including 2nd-line leadership or above (leading managers).
  • Have sold complex technical products to large enterprises in France, Iberia, Italy, the Middle-East and Africa.
  • Have worked across multiple industries, such as financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, telecom, retail, and energy.
  • Understand the cultural differences between Southern European markets and the regulatory context your customers operate in, and adapt your approach to each.
  • Think highly strategically about complex industry accounts, and turn that thinking into plans your team and sales counterparts can execute.
  • Have deep technical proficiency with enterprise AI use cases, API integrations, and LLM deployments.
  • Thrive in building and rapidly scaling teams and processes within ambiguous and fast-moving environments.
  • Have excellent communication, collaboration, and coaching abilities.
  • Strong executive presence and ability to foster deep relationships with business and technical leaders at the region's largest companies.
  • Have at least a high level familiarity with the architecture and operation of LLMs.
  • Have a passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial.
  • Stay up-to-date and informed by taking an active interest in emerging research and industry trends within AI.

Strong candidates may have:

  • Enterprise pre-sales leadership at scale: 5+ years leading solution architect teams through hypergrowth (ideally dozens of people across several countries), with direct experience leading managers and developing talent in complex enterprise software sales environments.
  • Multilingual and multicultural range: In addition to English, fluency in one or more of French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese, and experience leading teams distributed across several countries.
  • Experience with consumption business models: Ideal candidates have built GTM frameworks anchored on consumption, not just SaaS-based licenses.

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:
€265.000—€310.000 EUR

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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email 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.

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.

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