Field CTO

Stott and May; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stott and May is seeking a hands-on Field CTO to lead its technical and customer-facing operations in Finland. The role combines AI leadership, engineering oversight, and strategic engagement with enterprise customers to drive adoption and value realization.

The successful candidate will partner with GTM teams to translate opportunities into practical solutions, build a local technical organisation, and guide deployment and adoption at scale.

Qualifications

• Hands-on CTO with AI experience
• Experience with enterprise customers and C-level stakeholders
• Strong commercial awareness and translating business problems into technical solutions

Responsibilities

• Lead local engineering and customer-facing technical teams
• Provide technical leadership across AI, software architecture, APIs, data and cloud
• Engage with GTM and enterprise customers from discovery to deployment
• Shape technical proposals with commercial teams and define measurable outcomes
• Advise C-suite and senior stakeholders on technical directions
• Support teams in resolving complex technical and customer challenges
• Foster a high-quality, fast, customer-focused engineering culture
• Recruit and coach top technical and customer-facing talent

Skills

AI leadership

Enterprise sales support

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Finnish/English bilingual

Job description

A rapidly growing AI technology company is looking for a Field CTO to lead its technical and customer-facing operations in Finland.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role combining technology, enterprise customers, AI, commercial strategy and team building. You'll work with GTM to help organisations identify high-value opportunities for AI, translate those opportunities into practical solutions, and ensure successful deployment and adoption.

You'll work closely with senior customers and internal commercial and technical teams, while building and leading a high-performing local technical organisation.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow the local engineering and customer-facing technical teams i.e FDEs, Deployment Strategists etc
• Provide technical leadership across AI, software architecture, APIs, integrations, data and cloud infrastructure
• Work directly with GTM & enterprise customers from initial discovery through solution design, deployment and adoption
• Partner with commercial teams to identify valuable AI use cases, shape technical proposals and define measurable outcomes
• Act as a senior technical advisor to C-suite and senior enterprise stakeholders
• Support engineering teams in resolving complex technical, product and customer challenges
• Build a strong, customer-focused engineering culture centred on quality, speed and impact
• Recruit, coach and retain exceptional technical and customer-facing talent

What they're looking for

• Hands-on CTO with recent AI experience and ability to work with GTM functions
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers and C-level stakeholders
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to translate business problems into practical technical solutions
• Demonstrable experience influencing or supporting enterprise technology sales
• High agency and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills
• Fluency in Finnish and English