# Field CTO, RSA ID Plus

**Company:** [RSA](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rsa)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $170k – $270k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** identity and access management, nist sp 800-63, fido2, x.509, SAML, oauth 2.0, OIDC, ssf, verifiable credentials, zero trust architecture, SaaS, private cloud, air-gapped environments, Competitive Analysis, enterprise security architecture
**Posted:** 2026-08-13

> Serves as RSA ID Plus’s senior technical voice, advising strategic enterprise and public-sector customers on identity security, zero trust architecture, and modernization. The role combines executive advisory work, technical evangelism, complex sales-cycle support, competitive strategy, and field enablement.

## Job Description

## 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.

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