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What this posting asks for
Level: Manager — The title says "Manager".
Main responsibilities
- Hire, manage, and guide a team of pre-sales Solutions Architects by providing both technical guidance and career development.
- Set goals for your team in collaboration with sales and other parts of the organization that establish baseline expectations for performance.
- Act as a technical sponsor for high-value strategic customers and advise them on their overall AI adoption strategies or use case scoping and POC execution.
- Partner closely with Enterprise Tech sales leadership to identify new strategies to drive adoption of Anthropic products across customer use cases.
- Work with cross-functional teams like product and engineering to ensure Anthropic prioritizes customer feedback or resolves blockers to adoption.
- Travel to customer sites 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/ML trends and the competitive landscape.
- You may be a good fit if you:
Competencies an interviewer will look for
- Technical skill Core
In the posting: “You will be responsible for leading and growing the pre-sales team that partners with account executives to help those companies understand and deploy Anthro…” · “Work with cross-functional teams like product and engineering to ensure Anthropic prioritizes customer feedback or resolves blockers to adoption.” · “Have deep technical proficiency with enterprise AI use cases, API integrations, and LLM deployments.”
Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off. - Communication Core
In the posting: “Have excellent communication, collaboration, and coaching abilities.” · “If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.” · “As such, we greatly value communication skills.”
Show it by: Adapts the message to the listener; Gives an example of explaining something clearly in writing or speech. - Teamwork and collaboration Core
In the posting: “Set goals for your team in collaboration with sales and other parts of the organization that establish baseline expectations for performance.” · “Work with cross-functional teams like product and engineering to ensure Anthropic prioritizes customer feedback or resolves blockers to adoption.” · “Have excellent communication, collaboration, and coaching abilities.”
Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled. - Leadership and mentoring Core
In the posting: “Partner closely with Enterprise Tech sales leadership to identify new strategies to drive adoption of Anthropic products across customer use cases.” · “Contribute to thought leadership through conference presentations, webinars, and technical content creation.” · “Have excellent communication, collaboration, and coaching abilities.”
Show it by: Describes setting direction or a standard others followed; Names someone they coached and what changed for them. - Customer focus Core
In the posting: “Our Enterprise Tech customers are some of the world's most sophisticated technology companies, deploying AI at the core of their products and operations..” · “You'll leverage your technical skills and consultative sales experience to drive positive AI transformation that addresses our customers' business needs, mee…” · “This will include leveraging your technical skills and consultative sales experience to hire great people, establish processes for the team to scale, and rep…”
Show it by: Puts the customer's need in their own words; Shows a result for the customer, not only for the company. - Planning and organisation Core
In the posting: “As the manager of the Solutions Architect team within Applied AI Enterprise Tech at Anthropic, you will drive the adoption of frontier AI in partnership with…” · “Set goals for your team in collaboration with sales and other parts of the organization that establish baseline expectations for performance.” · “Work with cross-functional teams like product and engineering to ensure Anthropic prioritizes customer feedback or resolves blockers to adoption.”
Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how. - Adaptability and learning Core
In the posting: “Thrive in building and rapidly scaling teams and processes within ambiguous and fast-moving environments.” · “Multi-Segment GTM Experience : Demonstrated success adapting technical approaches across customer segments (commercial to Fortune 100).” · “We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely…”
Show it by: Describes learning something new quickly and using it; Shows a change of plan and how they adjusted. - Attention to detail and quality Core
In the posting: “You'll leverage your technical skills and consultative sales experience to drive positive AI transformation that addresses our customers' business needs, mee…” · “Your safety matters to us.” · “This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, S…”
Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used. - Stakeholder management Core
In the posting: “You will be responsible for leading and growing the pre-sales team that partners with account executives to help those companies understand and deploy Anthro…” · “Travel to customer sites or conferences for executive-level sessions, technical workshops, and relationship building.” · “Strong executive presence and ability to foster deep relationships with technical leaders and engineering teams at leading enterprise technology companies.”
Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior.
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Practice questions
- Tell me about yourself. Dedicated step-by-step practice.
- If an interviewer asks something improper How to respond to questions about age, family, origin or health.
- Built from this posting (6):
- Walk me through a piece of work where you used your strongest technical skill. What exactly did you do? From this posting
- Tell me about a time you had to explain something complex to someone outside your field. From this posting
- Describe a time you worked with another team to deliver something. What was your part? From this posting
- Tell me about a time you helped someone on your team get better at their work. From this posting
- How have you used sales in your work? Walk me through one real example. From this posting
- Tell me about a problem you solved using training. From this posting
- Tell me about a sale or agreement you are proud of.
- Describe a time you handled an upset customer or colleague.
- Tell me about a time you had several deadlines at once. How did you decide what to do first?
- Give an example of a mistake you caught before it caused a problem.
- Tell me about a time you taught someone how to do something.
- Describe a time you took the lead without being asked.
- Tell me about a time you had to explain something complicated in simple terms.
- Describe a process you improved.
- Do you have any questions for us?
- Why do you want to work here?
- Why is there a gap in your employment? Difficult question
- Why did you leave your last job? Difficult question
- Why are you changing careers? Difficult question
- What is your greatest weakness? Difficult question
- What are your salary expectations? Difficult question
- You seem overqualified for this role. Why do you want it? Difficult question
- Improper-question practice: How old are you? / Do you have children? / Where are you from originally?
- A customer is angry about a delay you did not cause. What do you do?
- How do you keep track of many open customer requests?
- Tell me about a time you could not give a customer what they wanted.
- You find that the inventory count does not match the system. What do you do?
- Tell me about a time a shipment or delivery went wrong.
- How do you make sure safety rules are followed on a busy shift?
- Two managers ask you to book the same room at the same time. What do you do?
- How have you used spreadsheets in your work?
- Tell me about a time you had to enter or check a lot of data accurately.
- A prospect says your price is too high. How do you respond?
- How do you keep your pipeline organised?
- Tell me about a technical problem you solved on your own.
- You find a bug right before a release. What do you do?
- Walk me through how you would check whether a report's numbers are right.

