we are looking for a Field CTO.
This is a hybrid role at the intersection of customer-facing technical leadership, security expertise, and field enablement. You'll lead high-stakes architecture conversations and proof-of-concept engagements, serve as an escalation point for both customer-facing technical challenges and internal Product/Engineering alignment, and build the playbooks and materials that make every Sales Engineer and Pre-Sales professional more effective.
This is a hybrid role at the intersection of customer-facing technical leadership, security expertise, and field enablement. You'll lead high-stakes architecture conversations and proof-of-concept engagements, serve as an escalation point for both customer-facing technical challenges and internal Product/Engineering alignment, and build the playbooks and materials that make every Sales Engineer and Pre-Sales professional more effective.
Requirements:
– 5+ years in enterprise technology, with a significant portion in customer-facing or field-facing technical leadership roles such as Field CTO, CTO, Principal Architect,Technical PM or equivalent.
– Deep technical fluency in AI systems, cloud infrastructure, enterprise security, or developer platforms. You do not need to have built every system yourself, but you need to understand how they actually work and where they break.
– Strong understanding of AI agent architectures, LLM applications, agentic workflows, tool use, or related applied AI systems.
– Cybersecurity background is a must. Experience with enterprise security architecture, SIEM, identity, cloud security, or related domains translates well.
– Ability to hold your own in deeply technical conversations , architecture reviews, security assessments, platform integrations , without needing preparation time.
– Strong cross-functional instincts. You understand how sales cycles work, how Customer Success operates, and how to create value across the pre-sale and post-sale motion.
– High ownership mindset. You treat your accounts like your own business and hold yourself accountable for their success.
– Comfort operating in ambiguity. We are defining a new security category, there is no established playbook and you will help write it.
– Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to produce technical content that is clear, authoritative, and audience-appropriate.
– Experience in a high-growth startup or early-stage company is a strong plus.
– 5+ years in enterprise technology, with a significant portion in customer-facing or field-facing technical leadership roles such as Field CTO, CTO, Principal Architect,Technical PM or equivalent.
– Deep technical fluency in AI systems, cloud infrastructure, enterprise security, or developer platforms. You do not need to have built every system yourself, but you need to understand how they actually work and where they break.
– Strong understanding of AI agent architectures, LLM applications, agentic workflows, tool use, or related applied AI systems.
– Cybersecurity background is a must. Experience with enterprise security architecture, SIEM, identity, cloud security, or related domains translates well.
– Ability to hold your own in deeply technical conversations , architecture reviews, security assessments, platform integrations , without needing preparation time.
– Strong cross-functional instincts. You understand how sales cycles work, how Customer Success operates, and how to create value across the pre-sale and post-sale motion.
– High ownership mindset. You treat your accounts like your own business and hold yourself accountable for their success.
– Comfort operating in ambiguity. We are defining a new security category, there is no established playbook and you will help write it.
– Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to produce technical content that is clear, authoritative, and audience-appropriate.
– Experience in a high-growth startup or early-stage company is a strong plus.
This position is open to all candidates.
