Cto Australia

Breakmark; Hobart; On-site; AUD 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Breakmark is seeking a Field CTO for Australia to lead enterprise technical engagements, architect scalable AI deployments, and guide regional technical strategy.

You will build and lead a high-performing engineering and solutions team, recruit and mentor staff, and ensure production systems run reliably at scale across markets.

The role demands startup founder experience, deep AI know-how, and the ability to communicate effectively with engineers and executives.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading high-performing engineering teams.
• Experience building technical organisations from the ground up.
• Proven ownership of production systems at scale.
• Fluent English with executive communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise technical engagements with customers.
• Perform technical discovery, architecture reviews, and demos.
• Build integrations and production-ready solutions.
• Set engineering standards for scale, reliability, and performance.
• Shape regional strategy and align with product roadmaps.

Skills

Backend engineering

Engineering leadership

Team building

Production systems ownership

Customer engagements

Job description

Job Description

At Breakmark , we're partnering with one of the fastest-growing companies in enterprise AI to hire a Field CTO for Australia .

The company is building the infrastructure that enables large enterprises to design, deploy, and manage AI agents across complex business workflows—powering customer and employee interactions through voice, chat, email, and back-office systems in any language or market.

What You'll Do

Lead Enterprise Technical Engagements

• Partner with enterprise customers throughout the sales process.
• Lead technical discovery, product demonstrations, architecture reviews, and integration discussions.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor for AI deployments in production environments.

Stay Hands-On

• Build integrations, prototypes, and production-ready solutions.
• Set high engineering standards around scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Support complex customer implementations requiring deep technical expertise.

Build & Lead the Regional Technical Team

• Recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering and solutions organisation.
• Establish best practices across architecture, delivery, and customer success.
• Create the technical foundation for long-term regional growth.

Own Customer Delivery

• Lead enterprise implementations from solution design through deployment.
• Ensure AI solutions operate reliably and effectively in production.
• Solve high-impact technical challenges alongside customers and internal teams.

Shape Regional Strategy

• Bring customer feedback into Product and Engineering roadmaps.
• Adapt solutions to regional market needs.
• Represent the technical organisation across customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.

What We're Looking For

Strong Technical Leadership

• 7+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading high-performing engineering teams.
• Experience building technical organisations from the ground up.
• Proven ownership of production systems at scale.

Technical Depth + Executive Presence

• Comfortable discussing architecture with engineers and strategy with executive leadership.
• Able to balance hands-on execution with long-term technical vision.

Startup Mindset

• High ownership and bias for action.
• Thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Prior Startup Founder experience is a MUST

AI Experience

• Strong understanding of AI, LLMs, and modern AI infrastructure.
• Experience delivering AI-powered products into production is highly desirable.

Communication

• Excellent English communication skills.
• Fluent or native in the local market language.
• Confident leading customer meetings, technical workshops, and executive presentations.

Why This Role?

Join one of the fastest-growing AI companies globally.

Build the technical organisation for an entire region.

Work directly with enterprise customers solving complex, high-impact problems.

Shape the future of enterprise AI while helping define how the company scales internationally.

If you're excited by the idea of combining engineering leadership, customer engagement, and startup building, we'd love to hear from you.