Field Chief Technology Officer
The Field CTO advises executive technology leaders on enterprise identity and security architecture, supports strategic sales opportunities, and influences product direction. The role requires 12+ years of technical leadership experience, executive communication skills, Fortune 500 engagement, and willingness to travel up to 50%.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to strategic customers, including CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, chief architects, and technical decision-makers at Fortune 500 organizations.
- Lead executive briefings, architecture reviews, strategic workshops, and customer meetings addressing complex identity, access, and security challenges.
- Provide technical leadership throughout the sales cycle, including architecture discussions, competitive evaluations, executive decision-making, technical alignment, and risk reduction.
- Build repeatable technical motions, executive messaging, reference architectures, technical playbooks, and customer engagement frameworks for the global Solutions Engineering organization.
- Mentor senior Solutions Engineers and elevate the team’s technical and consultative capabilities.
- Partner with Sales Leadership, Solutions Engineering Leadership, and Enablement on emerging trends, strategic opportunities, and organizational investments.
- Develop enablement programs for emerging technologies and evolving customer challenges.
- Bring customer feedback, competitive intelligence, and implementation insights to Product and Engineering leadership.
- Influence product roadmaps, validate emerging capabilities, support early customer adoption programs, and translate market trends into product and go-to-market strategies.
- Represent 1Password at conferences, executive events, customer advisory boards, analyst briefings, and industry forums.
- Create technical thought leadership through presentations, blogs, webinars, and whitepapers.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in enterprise technology, cybersecurity, consulting, solutions engineering, enterprise architecture, or technical leadership.
- Demonstrated success influencing executive technology leaders in Fortune 500 organizations.
- Deep technical expertise in identity, access management, privileged access, cloud security, developer platforms, SaaS security, or AI security.
- Exceptional executive communication skills and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business outcomes and compelling narratives.
- Ability to influence enterprise architecture decisions across large, complex organizations.
- Experience supporting strategic enterprise sales opportunities and partnering with executive sales teams.
- Strong understanding of enterprise buying processes and modern sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC.
- Experience building technical strategies, reusable methodologies, or scalable customer engagement frameworks.
- Ability to influence product strategy through customer engagement and market insights.
- Ability to build trusted relationships across Product, Engineering, Sales, and executive leadership while influencing without direct authority.
- Experience speaking to diverse audiences at industry conferences, executive forums, and analyst events.
- Willingness to travel up to 50%.
Success in This Role
Within the first 12 to 18 months, you will:
- Influence strategic customer opportunities and executive relationships.
- Build partnerships with Product, Engineering, and go-to-market leadership that shape platform investments.
- Create technical plays, executive messaging, and reference architectures adopted across Solutions Engineering.
- Elevate field capabilities through mentorship, thought leadership, and executive engagement.
- Expand 1Password’s influence across the identity security community.
Compensation and Benefits
- Remote opportunity within the United States and Canada.
- Benefits and compensation details were not provided in the posting.
Skills
Identity And Access Management, Privileged Access Management, Cloud Security, Developer Platforms, Saas Security, Ai Security, Enterprise Architecture, MEDDPICC, Executive Communication, Reference Architectures, Technical Playbooks, Cybersecurity
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