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 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 & 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