Head of ASEAN, Applied AI

About the role

Anthropic is looking for a founding leader of its Applied AI Solutions Architecture in Singapore. You will drive the adoption of frontier AI by deploying Anthropic's products (Claude for Enterprise, Claude Code and the API) across ASEAN enterprises and digital-first organisations, and you will build and lead the ASEAN Applied AI team from the ground up.

Key responsibilities

• Build and manage the foundational team of Applied AI professionals in ASEAN (Solutions Architects and Product Engineers), setting goals and reviews and supporting their growth.
• Work with a handful of high-value enterprise customers on their AI adoption strategies, covering use case scoping, technical champion building and POC execution.
• Co-build go-to-market strategies with GTM leadership and own the technical parts of pre-sales engagements, including demos and ROI validation.
• Contribute to thought leadership through conferences, webinars and technical content, and travel regularly to customer sites across ASEAN.
• Represent Anthropic as a technical lead on key partnerships and stay current with AI/ML trends in the ASEAN enterprise sector, including regulated industries.

Required profile

• 15+ years as a Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer or similar pre-sales technical role.
• 5+ years managing pre-sales teams and technical go-to-market activities.
• Experience with ASEAN enterprise customers and their business culture, procurement and decision-making.
• Familiarity with the ASEAN regulatory landscape (e.g. Singapore Privacy Principles, APRA CPS 234, data sovereignty).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent; location-based hybrid policy (at least 25% in an office).

Required skills

• Deep knowledge of enterprise AI deployments, API integrations and production LLM use cases.
• Prompt engineering, LLM evaluation and architecting AI-powered systems.
• Understanding of large language model and ML architecture, and of developer tooling and SDKs.

Visa sponsorship is offered where possible, and the company encourages applications from candidates who do not meet every requirement.