CTO Australia

Breakmark is partnering with one of the fastest-growing companies in enterprise AI to hire a Field CTO for Australia. The company is building 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. As Site CTO, the role owns the technical strategy for the region, partners with enterprise customers, and builds the local technical organisation from the ground up. The role works at the intersection of Engineering, Product, Sales, and Customer Success, combining executive architecture conversations, technical leadership, and writing production code when needed.

Responsibilities

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; Build integrations, prototypes, and production-ready solutions; Set high engineering standards around scalability, reliability, and performance; Support complex customer implementations requiring deep technical expertise; 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; 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; Bring customer feedback into Product and Engineering roadmaps; Adapt solutions to regional market needs; Represent the technical organisation across customers, partners, and internal stakeholders; Own the technical strategy for the region

Requirements

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; Comfortable discussing architecture with engineers and strategy with executive leadership; Able to balance hands-on execution with long-term technical vision; High ownership and bias for action; Thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments; Prior Startup Founder experience is a MUST; Strong understanding of AI, LLMs, and modern AI infrastructure; Excellent English communication skills; Fluent or native in the local market language; Confident leading customer meetings, technical workshops, and executive presentations

Nice to have

Experience delivering AI-powered products into production is highly desirable