Field CTO

Role overview

This opportunity is for a senior technology leader based in Germany who will help shape how enterprise organizations adopt AI at scale. The role blends executive customer engagement, technical direction, and team building in a fast-moving environment focused on innovation and growth. You will work closely with senior decision-makers, support complex buying processes, and help create the technical and commercial story that drives customer success.

What you will do

• Drive the technical direction across enterprise sales cycles, including discovery meetings, executive briefings, and solution validation conversations.
• Act as the main technical point of contact for customers, turning advanced AI architectures into clear business value and outcomes.
• Create tailored solution designs based on modular AI approaches, while addressing concerns around integrations, scalability, security, and deployment.
• Represent the company at conferences, workshops, industry gatherings, and executive forums through presentations and thought leadership.
• Build and expand a strong technical evangelism capability by establishing reusable presentation formats, demo approaches, objection-handling methods, and sector-specific messaging.
• Partner with sales, product, and leadership teams to sharpen go-to-market execution, improve competitive positioning, and bring back practical field feedback.
• Develop trusted relationships with CIOs, CTOs, and other senior technology leaders while helping improve win rates in technically complex enterprise deals.

What we are looking for

• Significant experience in senior customer-facing technical leadership roles such as Field CTO, VP of Solutions Engineering, Principal Architect, Technical Founder, or a similar position.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of enterprise AI, including large language model architectures, orchestration frameworks, enterprise integrations, and modern security and deployment patterns.
• Proven ability to support enterprise sales processes, influence executive stakeholders, and guide organizations through detailed technical evaluations.
• Leadership experience with the ability to hire, coach, and manage high-performing technical teams.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the confidence to explain complex technical topics to both executive and technical audiences.
• Experience building enablement programs, scalable demo environments, and repeatable customer engagement structures.
• Demonstrated public-facing thought leadership through speaking engagements, webinars, conferences, publications, or similar activities.
• A commercial mindset with a clear understanding of customer value, business outcomes, and strategies that shorten time to value.
• Experience in data-heavy sectors such as financial services, enterprise services, real estate, or comparable complex industries is a strong advantage.

Benefits

• The chance to create and lead a strategic technical evangelism function with meaningful impact on growth.
• Strong autonomy and ownership in defining technical strategy, customer engagement methods, and team development plans.
• Exposure to enterprise-level AI programs and large-scale transformation initiatives across international markets.
• A collaborative setting that brings you close to executive leadership, product teams, and major enterprise customers.
• Fast professional development in a dynamic technology environment that is changing quickly.
• Opportunities to speak at major industry events, conferences, and thought leadership platforms.
• An entrepreneurial culture that supports experimentation, innovation, and continuous learning.
• A flexible working setup that enables collaboration across regions and international teams.

Additional information

This position is posted on behalf of a partner company, which will handle all applications and the next steps in the hiring process. The final decision, including interviews and assessments, will be managed directly by the employer's internal team.

Data privacy and hiring process

By submitting an application, candidates agree that their personal data may be processed to assess fit for the role and shared with the hiring company. This processing is based on legitimate interest and pre-contractual measures under applicable data protection laws, including GDPR. Candidates may request access, correction, deletion, or objection to processing at any time.

Artificial intelligence tools may be used to support parts of the recruitment workflow, including reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, and identifying possible inconsistencies or verification signals in submitted materials. These tools assist the recruitment team but do not replace human judgment, and all final hiring decisions are made by people.