What are the responsibilities and job description for the Field CTO position at AHEAD?
AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
AHEAD is committed to a community of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage applications from women, underrepresented minorities, persons with disabilities, sexual minority groups, and all other candidates who will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives here at AHEAD.
We are on this journey to ensure that all AHEADians feel that they can authentically show up and belong at work.
Are you passionate and articulate technologist that also speaks “business”? Do you have a track record of helping others use technology to change the way they do business? Can you help develop both a strategy and the plan to execute against it? Do you enjoy working on complex challenges and take pride in connecting the dots for others?
The Field CTO is the highest-ranking level technical sales level within AHEAD. In the role, you will work in cooperation with the AHEAD Sales and Presales leadership to manage the technical go-to-market and relationship management for our valued clients. As a Field CTO, assist in all technical aspects of a sales campaign and hand off to our consulting and services team, as well as the management of technical solution designs.
In this role, you are a senior thought leader within the technical organization, responsible for designing marketing programs, building education programs, writing white papers, architecting solutions, presenting at industry events and executive briefings and consulting for AHEAD clients. We expect a Field CTO to possess or acquire expert knowledge across our Digital Delivery Platform including cloud management and operations, automation, DevOps, security, enterprise infrastructure, and application and data architectures. A Field CTO should be skilled in translating the digital challenges of our clients and building relationships. They must have an established reputation across more than one of these segments to drive product and services sales that focus on client outcomes.
In partnership with account teams, you will help build cohesive account strategies for strategic current and prospective clients. You will help teams identify potential solutions, technologies, and vendors, and assist in driving this strategy throughout the sales campaign.
Time management and prioritization are essential attributes of a successful Field CTO. You are a technical thought leader for each of your clients and partners. In this capacity, you will own strategy, compare alternative approaches, and build key relationships, as well as help design solutions. Positioning and leveraging Subject Matter Experts is a necessity to scale your effectiveness within our clients. You will also be expected to provide insight and details regarding work effort and client engagement to enable tracking of key KPIs throughout the year through tools that will be provided to you.
Education is critical to your success at AHEAD. You are expected to continually educate not only yourself, but also our clients and your team resources.
Why AHEAD:
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
We understand that you have a life outside of work. That’s why we offer flexible paid time off, paid company holidays, and the ability for you to manage your work schedule as needed.
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