Field CTO, RSA ID Plus
$170,000–$270,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Serve as the primary technical advisor to CISOs, CIOs, and enterprise architects at RSA's most strategic accounts, engaging them on identity strategy, zero trust architecture, and modernization roadmaps. Lead analyst briefings alongside Product Management and Product Marketing, and act as the technical evangelist through keynotes, conference sessions, and executive briefings. Support complex, high-value sales cycles in regulated environments by partnering with Sales and Solution Architecture to remove technical obstacles and win architectural decisions. Maintain a rigorous view of the competitive landscape, equip the field with positioning arguments, and partner with Product teams to refine messaging and feed field insight into long-range strategic planning. Build technical credibility through enablement, architecture guidance, and mentoring of solution architects and sales engineers. Travel up to 30% for customer meetings and industry events.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years in senior technical roles such as Field CTO, Chief Architect, Principal Solution Architect, or Security Strategist, with extensive customer-facing experience
- Deep subject matter expertise in Identity & Access Management principles, including major technology standards in authentication (NIST SP800-63, FIDO2, X.509), federation and authorization (SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC), and emerging technologies (SSF, Verifiable Credentials)
- Demonstrated ability to design and defend enterprise security architectures across SaaS, private cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments
- Proven executive presence and commercial acumen, with a track record of advising CISOs and CIOs and influencing large, complex enterprise sales cycles without owning a quota
- Established industry voice, evidenced by conference speaking, published thought leadership, analyst engagement, or standards body participation
- Strong analytical skills and command of the competitive landscape, able to translate technical differentiation into defensible positioning and messaging, and to contribute that insight to product strategy and long-range planning
- Superior written and verbal communication skills, equally effective on a keynote stage, in a customer architecture review, and in an executive strategy discussion
- Independent self-starter who sets direction in ambiguity and operates effectively across a large, globally distributed organization
- Willingness to travel up to 30% for customer meetings, industry events, and speaking engagements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science
Desired Qualifications
- advanced degree a plus
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