Field CTO & AI Delivery Leader – Australia

Hyphen Partners; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Hyphen Partners in Australia is seeking a Field CTO / Head of Forward-Deployed Engineering to lead hands-on delivery for enterprise clients, shape architecture and security, and own the build-and-deliver cycles. You will build the local technical team and drive pre-sales, demos, and customer success.

You will translate customer needs into product inputs for the global team, balance leadership with technical execution, and own critical Escalations and partnerships as the business scales.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with production deployments and AI systems.
• Track record in pre-sales, solution architecture, or complex technical implementations (Field CTO / Solutions Architect background ideal).
• Strong leadership experience at director, VP, or founder level, including technical co-founder roles.
• Comfort building from a blank page—plan, team, and system without a pre-existing playbook.
• Experience scaling fast with ownership and accountability over speed and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Sit in early sales conversations and run demos.
• Shape architecture and security discussions and lead the build and delivery of integrations.
• Build and grow the local technical team across engineering, integration, and pre-sales.
• Own escalations once customers are live and feed ground-level insights back to the product org.

Skills

Hands-on software engineering

AI systems

Pre-sales / Solutions architecture

Leadership

Technical co-founder experience

Blank-page building

Scale-up leadership

Job description

Hyphen Partners in Australia is seeking a Field CTO / Head of Forward-Deployed Engineering to lead hands-on delivery for enterprise clients, shape architecture and security, and own the build-and-deliver cycles. You will build the local technical team and drive pre-sales, demos, and customer success.

You will translate customer needs into product inputs for the global team, balance leadership with technical execution, and own critical Escalations and partnerships as the business scales.