Field CTO, Enterprise Identity & Security (NA West)

1Password

Canada (KY)

Hybrid

USD 228,000 - 342,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

1Password is seeking a Field Chief Technology Officer to guide the most strategic customer opportunities and shape enterprise identity security across Fortune 500 organizations. You will influence platform investments, mentor senior engineers, and craft scalable technical plays for the Solutions Engineering org.

USA-based remote role with cross-border responsibilities, travel up to 50%, and close collaboration with Product, Engineering, and GTM leadership.

Qualifications

12+ years of experience in enterprise technology, cybersecurity, consulting, solutions engineering, enterprise architecture or technical leadership roles.
Demonstrated success influencing executive technology leaders within Fortune 500 organizations.
Deep technical expertise across identity, access management, privileged access, cloud security, developer platforms, SaaS security or AI security.
Exceptional executive communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business outcomes.
Demonstrated ability to simplify highly complex technical concepts into compelling narratives for executive audiences.
Proven ability to influence enterprise architecture decisions across large, complex organizations.
Experience supporting strategic enterprise sales opportunities and partnering closely with executive sales teams.
Strong understanding of enterprise buying processes and modern sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC.
Experience building technical strategies, reusable methodologies or customer engagement frameworks that scale beyond individual contributions.
Demonstrated ability to influence product strategy through customer engagement and market insights.
Proven ability to build trusted relationships across Product, Engineering, Sales and executive leadership while influencing without direct authority.
Experience speaking to diverse audiences at industry conferences, executive forums and analyst events.
Willingness to travel up to 50%.

Responsibilities

Influence the successful outcome of 1Password’s most strategic customer opportunities and executive relationships.
Build trusted partnerships with Product, Engineering and GTM leadership that shape future platform investments.
Create repeatable technical plays, executive messaging and reference architectures adopted across the global Solutions Engineering organization.
Elevate the technical capabilities of the field through mentorship, thought leadership and executive engagement.
Expand 1Password’s influence across the identity security community through conference speaking, customer advisory boards and industry events.