Global Field CTO

About the Job

Red Hat is looking for a leader for our global Field Chief Technology Officer (Field CTO) organization. This role will lead efforts across field sales, services, our business unit (BU) product leaders and engineering teams to drive full solution and technology adoption from Red Hat customers. This role requires a high degree of executive presence and partnership skills, given internal and external visibility requirements. This leader must be a trusted advisor, both internally across Red Hat leadership and externally with customers and partners. 

This role will direct a globally diverse and cross-functional team of senior leaders, and requires demonstrated experience in inspiring and leading a distributed team. A successful leader in this role will work to establish and reinforce Red Hat’s vision and thought leadership in multiple industries and verticals. In customer and executive engagements, this leader will be able to apply a breadth of experience to assist our customers in maximizing the value of their investments in Red Hat. In addition, this leader will be able to build partnerships within Red Hat to ensure Field CTO client engagements provide insights for product development, as well as field sales and marketing strategy and messaging. The Field CTO leader will ensure that Red Hat solutions and innovations are integrated into creating joint solutions that lead to measured business outcomes and can be replicated by partners.

This role will report to the CTO and SVP, Global Engineering. Given close collaboration with Red Hat leadership, regular availability in the Boston, MA office is preferred. Significant level of business travel required for internal Red Hat, customer, and partner meetings and conferences (50%). Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business.

What You Will Do

• Lead a global cross-functional organization of Field CTO leaders and Chief Architects and Technology Strategists focused on articulating Red Hat's technology vision and competitive differentiation in one-to-many publications, presentations, executive briefings and/or one-on-one C-suite engagements

• Collaborate with the Field CTO leadership team to build and drive a cohesive business and people strategy for the global organization; ensure relevant success metrics are in place to quantify the impact of the Field CTO organization

• Continuously evolve the Field CTO strategy, objectives and brand in alignment with company strategy and industry trends

• Ensure a supportive and collaborative environment that values input from all sources and drives partnership and engagement

• Understanding of cost control, …