You'll coach and develop a team of PAMs, shape the operating model for how we engage the tier, and build the programs, playbooks, and measurement systems that let us scale with quality.

This role sits at the intersection of team leadership, partner strategy, and operational execution.

Responsibilities:

Team leadership and development

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Partner Account Managers covering a group of Anthropic’s services partners

• Set clear expectations, goals, and operating standards; hold the team accountable to partner revenue, pipeline, and program outcomes

• Hire and retain exceptional talent; build a team culture grounded in rigor, partnership, and care for Anthropic's mission

Program and operating model

• Shape the tier's operating model: how PAMs plan with partners, run QBRs, forecast, track partner health, and prioritise their time across a portfolio

• Partner with the broader SI program to adapt tier structure, benefits, and requirements to partner dynamics

• Build and evolve playbooks that help PAMs recruit, onboard, activate, and grow partners consistently

Enablement and partner success

• Work with enablement, product, and solutions teams to ensure partners have the training, certifications, and technical resources they need to build and deliver production-grade Claude solutions

• Identify gaps in partner readiness and drive cross-functional investment to close them

• Ensure consistent quality of partner engagement across the team

Cross-functional leadership and insights

• Collaborate with sales, partner operations, marketing, legal, and finance to remove friction and accelerate joint outcomes

• Surface partner, market, and product insights to inform Anthropic's broader partner strategy and roadmap

• Represent the business in partnership leadership forums

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 10+ years of experience in partner sales, channel sales, alliances, or partner management at a technology company

• 3+ years managing partner-facing teams, including senior individual contributors

• A track record of driving revenue through SI or consulting partner channels, consistently meeting or exceeding targets

• Experience building or scaling partner programs , tier structures, enablement, playbooks, and operating cadences , in a fast-growing environment

• Strong commercial acumen; comfortable coaching your team through complex deals, partner negotiations, and multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles

• Experience managing a portfolio of partners at scale (rather than a small number of top-tier strategic accounts) and a view on how to drive leverage across a wide partner base

• Excellent analytical skills; fluency with partner KPIs, dashboards, and using data to drive team and program decisions

• Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills, from partner practitioners to senior executives, both externally and internally

• Comfort with ambiguity and a track record of creating structure in emerging programs

• Willingness to travel to support partner relationships and joint customer engagements

• Interest in AI and a commitment to Anthropic's mission of building safe, beneficial AI systems

Strong candidates may also have:

• Direct experience working with or at specialist / regional SIs similar to this group of partners (e.g., Persistent, Slalom, Ahead, DXC, Genpact, and comparable firms)

• Experience in AI, cloud platforms, or other high-growth technology categories where partner enablement and technical differentiation are critical

• Experience managing partner teams across multiple geographies and cultures

• A background that spans partner management and adjacent disciplines such as direct enterprise sales, partner sales, or alliances strategy

• Experience standing up or scaling a partner tier or program from early stage to mature operations

• A point of view on how AI is reshaping the SI ecosystem and how Anthropic should engage specialist and regional partners differently from hyperscale GSIs

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: $355,000-$425,000 USD

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You will work at the intersection of sales strategy and partner operations,driving pipeline development and deal execution while also building the processes, enablement programs, and measurement systems that support long-term partner success. This role reports to our partnerships leadership and works closely with sales, product, and customer success teams to ensure our SI partners are equipped to win and deliver transformative AI solutions for their clients.

Responsibilities:

Partner Sales Strategy and Execution

• Own revenue targets and commercial relationships with assigned SI partners, including global consulting firms and regional integrators

• Develop and execute joint go-to-market strategies that drive partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline

• Lead partner business planning, including setting mutual goals, identifying target accounts, and defining success metrics

• Work directly with partner sales teams to identify opportunities, support deal progression, and close business

Partner Program Design and Management

• Design and implement a tiered partner program structure with clear criteria, benefits, and requirements that incentivize partner investment and performance

• Develop comprehensive partner lifecycle management processes covering recruitment, onboarding, enablement, growth, and optimization

• Create scalable frameworks for partner engagement that maintain quality as we expand our partner ecosystem globally

• Establish program governance, including partner agreements, engagement models, and escalation paths

Enablement and Partner Success

• Build and manage partner enablement programs including training curricula, certification pathways, and technical resources

• Develop enablement materials that help partners understand Claude's capabilities, competitive differentiation, and enterprise applications

• Create resources that enable partners to design, build, and deliver production-grade AI solutions for their clients

• Partner with internal teams to ensure partners have access to the technical support and product knowledge they need to win

Operational Excellence

• Implement systems, tools, and processes that ensure accurate tracking of partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue

• Develop and maintain partner performance dashboards and reporting mechanisms

• Create and document standard operating procedures for all partner program activities

• Manage partner data integrity and ensure consistent measurement across the global partner portfolio

Performance Measurement and Optimization

• Define and track KPIs for individual partner performance and overall program health

• Build frameworks for assessing partner contribution, engagement, and growth potential

• Develop approaches for measuring and demonstrating ROI of partner program investments

• Identify opportunities for program improvement and implement optimization initiatives

You may be a good fit if you have

• 7+ years of experience in partner sales, channel sales, or partner management at a technology company

• Demonstrated success driving revenue through partner channels, with a track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets

• Experience working with Systems Integrators, global consulting firms, or similar enterprise-focused partners

• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to structure deals, negotiate agreements, and drive complex sales cycles

• Experience building or scaling partner programs, including designing tier structures, enablement programs, and operational processes

• Excellent analytical skills with experience defining KPIs, building dashboards, and using data to drive program decisions

• Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills at all levels, from partner practitioners to C-suite executives

• Experience with CRM systems and partner relationship management tools

• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to create structure in emerging programs

• Willingness to travel globally to support partner relationships and joint customer engagements

Strong candidates may also have

• Experience in AI, cloud platforms, or other high-growth technology categories where partner enablement and technical differentiation are critical

• Background working at or with major Systems Integrators or global consulting firms

• Experience managing partner relationships across multiple geographies and cultures

• Understanding of enterprise sales cycles and how partners influence complex, multi-stakeholder deals

• Track record of building programs that scaled from early stage to mature operations

• Passion for AI and understanding of how enterprises are adopting AI technologies

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: $300,000-$355,000 USD

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What we're all about.

Our DATA values—Determination, Ambition, Teamwork, Accountability—aren't just operating principles, they're our competitive advantage. We bring context to every decision with a category-defining Decision Intelligence platform, and our partner ecosystem is the multiplier.

As VP, Partner Engineering, you will lead the technical vision, execution, and team required to scale partner-built and partner-delivered solutions across the world's most strategic technology and consulting landscapes.

Make Every Decision Count with Context

The opportunity.

Reporting to the SVP Global Alliances, the VP, Partner Engineering is the executive accountable for setting the Partner Engineering strategy to transform our partner ecosystem into a best-in-class technical delivery engine that expands consumption, accelerates CoSell and Channel revenue, and drives production deployments with repeatability and governance discipline.

This role will include:

• Developing, executing and leading the Partner Engineering strategy to deliver non-linear revenue growth via the Ecosystem
• Technical leadership of partner architecture
• Management of Partner Solution Architects as Player Coach i.e. Lead by example
• Execution of joint solution engineering with hyperscalers, industry ISV’s & GSIs
• Executive engagement and business impact through ecosystem consumption & marketplace ARR

What you'll be doing.

• Set the global Partner Engineering strategy and architecture standards aligned to cloud marketplaces, consumption incentives, and AI/data collaborations.
• Lead co-innovation blueprints and quick starts integrating our platform with the likes of Microsoft Azure, GCP, AWS, Databricks, Guidewire style decision systems, and GSI solution frameworks.
• Personally sponsor and govern the reference architecture, connector strategy, AI/data interop strategy, and workload optimization patterns for partner solutions.
• Create enterprise-grade integration frameworks and enforce architectural guardrails that accelerate deployment while minimizing partner/customer delivery risk.
• Partner with Product and R&D for cross function collaboration and alignment around roadmap and innovation
• Lead, mentor, and scale a global team of Partner Solution Architects focused on:

• Joint solution architecture
• Partner-led PoCs/PoVs
• Demo and sandbox platforms
• Deployment acceleration
• Technical certifications and readiness

• Build an elite Partner Architecture Centre of Excellence that rivals top ecosystem engineering orgs in the industry.
• Define clear role expectations, capability uplift plans, and partner field alignment models for PSAs.
• Establish performance-driven culture anchored in partner adoption velocity, PoV win rate, demo adoption, deployment acceleration, and marketplace ARR.
• Partner with Field Alliances, Field Engineering and RVP’s to enable and ensure Ecosystem attribution
• Own hyperscaler and ISV technical partnership co-innovation roadmaps, ensuring:

• Marketplace-ready joint solutions
• Consumption and integration patterns tied to incentives
• Field delivery kits for PSA + partner sellers
• Hardened reference designs for repeatable pursuits

• Drive GSI partnerships into factory-style delivery motions, launching industry solutions and field-ready plays with global systems integrators.
• Govern multi-party architecture risk, security, deployment patterns, rapid time-to-value, and executive sponsor checkpoints.
• Be the Evangelist for Ecosystem opportunities and own the hypothesis qualification for embedded or OEM, co-developed offerings and new pursuits
• Working closely with Product, define our ecosystem’s technical differentiation narrative—anchored in decision context, AI/data intelligence, workflows, and enterprise integration depth—against point solutions and platform incumbents.
• Ensure PSAs and partners can articulate why our platform wins architecturally, commercially, and operationally.

Requirements

What you'll bring.

• Proven executive leadership building partner engineering teams within enterprise software ecosystems
• Deep technical fluency in data platforms, AI/ML, analytics, cloud integration patterns, connectors, workflow systems and marketplace consumption architectures.
• Experience launching production-hardened joint solutions with hyperscalers and GSIs with measurable revenue and deployment outcomes.
• Ability to translate platform capability into partner-owned architectures that scale across customer estates.
• Practitioner’s mindset for governance of PoVs, partner certifications, deployment velocity, risk mitigation, and technical adoption KPIs
• Extensive experience in senior partner engineering, sales engineering or ecosystem technical leadership within large-scale enterprise software or SaaS companies.
• Excellent experience of managing architect/engineering-focused partner teams, PSAs, and global technical enablement functions.
• Demonstrated success driving multi-cloud partner consumption ARR, joint solution launches, and co-sell acceleration.
• Executive communication credibility with partner CTO/CIO/VP engineering stakeholders and hyperscaler/GSI technical leaders.
• Comfort operating across legal, sales, product, security, presales, and partner delivery functions.
• Willingness to travel globally (>40%).

Benefits

Our perks and quirks.

What makes you Q will help you to realize your full potential, flourish and enjoy what you do, while being recognized and rewarded with our broad range of benefits.

We know that just having an excellent glass door rating isn’t enough, so we’ve put together a competitive package as a way of saying thank you for all your hard work and dedication.

We offer:

Competitive salary Company bonus Flexible working hours in a hybrid workplace & free access to global WeWork locations & events Pension Scheme with a company contribution of 6% (if you contribute 3%) 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy up to 5 days) + birthday off! Work from Anywhere Scheme: Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period Family: Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave Health & Wellbeing: Private Healthcare, EAP, Well-being Days, Calm App, Gym Discounts Team's Social Budget & Company-wide Summer & Winter Parties Tech & Cycle-to-Work Schemes Volunteer Day off Dog-friendly Offices

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