Chief Technology Officer driving AI - first architecture, agentic engineering, and distributed team execution at Toptal. Owning technical strategy, hiring, platform reliability, and production AI outcomes.
About the role
- Field CTO guiding Fortune 500 organizations adopting 1Password’s identity security platform. Advising executives, shaping product strategy, and scaling Solutions Engineering through technical leadership.
Responsibilities
- Advise strategic Fortune 500 customers on identity, access, and security challenges
- Build relationships with CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, Chief Architects, and technical decision makers
- Participate in executive briefings, architecture reviews, strategic workshops, and customer meetings
- Provide technical leadership throughout enterprise sales cycles
- Support strategic opportunities by accelerating technical alignment, reducing execution risk, and building customer confidence
- Create repeatable technical plays, executive messaging, reference architectures, and playbooks
- Mentor senior Solutions Engineers and elevate field technical capabilities
- Partner with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Enablement leadership on technical trends and organizational investments
- Develop enablement programs for emerging technologies and customer challenges
- Bring customer feedback, competitive intelligence, and implementation insights to Product and Engineering leadership
- Influence product roadmaps, validate emerging capabilities, and support early customer adoption
- Translate market trends into product and go-to-market strategies
- Speak at conferences, executive events, customer advisory boards, analyst briefings, and industry forums
- Develop technical thought leadership through presentations, blogs, webinars, whitepapers, and executive content
- Represent 1Password externally and strengthen its market position
- Partner with executive leadership across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Go-to-Market to influence company strategy
- Define the future of Solutions Engineering through mentorship and scalable engagement models
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in enterprise technology, cybersecurity, consulting, solutions engineering, enterprise architecture, or technical leadership
- Demonstrated success influencing executive technology leaders within Fortune 500 organizations
- Deep technical expertise in identity, access management, privileged access, cloud security, developer platforms, SaaS security, or AI security
- Exceptional executive communication skills
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business outcomes
- Ability to simplify highly complex technical concepts into compelling executive narratives
- Proven ability to influence enterprise architecture decisions across large, complex organizations
- Experience supporting strategic enterprise sales opportunities and partnering with executive sales teams
- Strong understanding of enterprise buying processes and modern sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC
- Experience building technical strategies, reusable methodologies, or scalable customer engagement frameworks
- Ability to influence product strategy through customer engagement and market insights
- 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%
- Ability and willingness to meet frequent travel requirements for customer meetings, executive engagements, conferences, and industry events
- Professional experience in cybersecurity, identity and access management, privileged access management, cloud security, DevSecOps, or a closely related security domain
- Experience serving in a senior, customer-facing technical role supporting large or complex enterprise organizations
- Must already be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada; no work authorization, relocation assistance, or visa sponsorship/transferring is offered
- Successful applicants must complete a background check
Benefits
- Annual base salary of $228,000–$342,000 USD for USA-based roles or $228,000–$342,000 CAD for Canada-based roles
- Commission eligibility
- Immediate participation in benefits program
- Health benefits
- Dental benefits
- 401k for USA-based roles
- RRSP for Canada-based roles
- Generous paid time off (PTO)
- Equity grant / RSU program for most employees
- Incentive programs, where applicable
- Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
- Retirement matching program
- Free 1Password account
- Paid volunteer days
- Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly
- Remote-first work environment
- In-person onboarding in Toronto for all go-to-market roles
- Accommodation available upon request during recruitment
- AI tools may be used responsibly during the application process
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