Field CTO, RSA ID Plus

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to strategic customers and prospects, engaging CISOs, CIOs, and enterprise architects on identity strategy, zero trust architecture, and modernization roadmaps.
• Act as the primary technical evangelist for RSA ID Plus through keynotes, conference sessions, webinars, whitepapers, and executive briefings.
• Lead analyst briefings alongside Product Management and Product Marketing.
• Support complex, high-value sales cycles in regulated and enterprise environments, partnering with Sales and Solution Architecture to remove technical obstacles and win architectural decisions.
• Maintain a rigorous view of the competitive landscape and equip the field with arguments to win against competitors.
• Partner with Product Management and Product Marketing to shape platform strategy, refine positioning and messaging, and contribute field insight to strategic planning.
• Build the technical credibility of the field organization through enablement, architecture guidance, and mentoring of solution architects and sales engineers.

Requirements

• 12+ years in senior technical roles such as Field CTO, Chief Architect, Principal Solution Architect, or Security Strategist, with extensive customer-facing experience.
• Deep expertise in Identity and Access Management principles and authentication standards, including NIST SP 800-63, FIDO2, and X.509.
• Expertise in federation and authorization technologies, including SAML, OAuth 2.0, and OIDC.
• Familiarity with emerging technologies such as SSF and Verifiable Credentials.
• Ability to design and defend enterprise security architectures across SaaS, private cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments.
• Proven executive presence and commercial acumen, including advising CISOs and CIOs and influencing complex enterprise sales cycles without owning a quota.
• Established industry voice through conference speaking, published thought leadership, analyst engagement, or standards body participation.
• Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to translate technical differentiation into defensible positioning and messaging and contribute to product strategy.
• Ability to operate independently and effectively across a large, globally distributed organization.
• Willingness to travel up to 30%.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science.

Nice-to-haves

• Advanced degree.

Compensation and Benefits

• Pay range: $170,000–$270,000.
• Full-time, non-sales US employees are eligible for annual discretionary bonuses funded based on prior-year company performance.
• Benefits include flexible paid time off, health, disability, and life insurance, plus a 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions.