Field CTO

As a Field CTO, you will serve as a critical strategic conduit between Sonar's leadership and the world's most sophisticated enterprise technology leaders. Your focus will be a mix of strategic market evangelism and deep technical advisory. You will enhance Sonar's brand reputation and credibility as the definitive thought leader on the future of the SDLC in the age of AI, and your engagements with high-profile customers will directly inform and shape our product roadmap and GTM strategy, ensuring Sonar remains indispensable at the highest levels of global technology organizations. This is a global role that will require frequent travel to customer sites as well as to our many offices.

Responsibilities

Executive Advisory & Engagement: Engage in deep, strategic advisory conversations with CTOs, Chief Architects, and VP-level technology leaders at our largest global accounts and partners, helping them rationalize the technical path to achieving measurable business impact and value with Sonar's platform; External Thought Leadership & Brand Building: Serve as a highly credible, senior spokesperson for Sonar, representing the company at major industry conferences, webinars, and executive briefings, and engaging with press and industry analysts; Executive Enablement & Partnerships: Leverage your professional network and credibility to facilitate strategic engagements for Sonar's leadership team, while simultaneously identifying, developing, and supporting strategic technology partnerships and acting as an Ecosystem Orchestrator for complex client initiatives; Technical Content Creation: Lead the creation of high-impact technical content (e.g., whitepapers, reference architectures, advanced blog posts) that showcases Sonar's expertise across the SDLC; GTM Strategy & Product Feedback: Identify and analyze industry-specific trends and their impact on software development, co-creating industry solutions, and feeding executive insights directly into Product Management, GTM, and Architecture teams, helping shape product roadmaps; Strategic Sales Support & Technical Validation: Support the most complex and strategic sales cycles by providing unmatched technical credibility and executive-level context. This includes delivering validated evidence and building tailored architectural walkthroughs and proofs-of-concept that demonstrate Sonar's behavior and value in the customer's real-world environment; Internal Multiplier & Mentorship: Act as a technical multiplier across the organization, providing specialized mentorship and high-level architectural guidance to the TA and SE teams, and assist with top-tier technical recruiting

Requirements

Extensive experience in software development, solutions architecture, or a related field; Proven experience holding a senior strategic technology leadership role (Divisional CTO, VP Solutions Architect) within a major global enterprise or a leading technology company; Proven experience in a customer-facing technical role (e.g., Field CTO, Solutions Architect or Technical Advisory) from a major cloud provider or a major global technology institution; Deep expertise and thought leadership on the SDLC, AI, large-scale application security, and modern engineering practices; Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex, multi-domain technical topics into strategic business implications for C-level audiences; A strong customer-centric mindset coupled with proven experience thriving in a fast-paced, high-growth technology or SaaS environment; Alignment with Sonar's culture of high standards, urgency, and efficiency; A global mindset and a willingness to be both externally facing and internally consultative

Benefits

Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package; 23 days of PTO per calendar year (pro-rated based on start date) with additional time for sickness, life events and holidays; 401(k) plan with 4% match, fully vested on day one; Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin, Texas; Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries; Annual kick-off somewhere in the world; Monthly catered events and team events; Flexible work policy including 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week; Growth mindset and continuous education support