Field CTO - America Industries

Databricks
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Executive & General ManagementExperience: 15+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Problem-solving"]

Senior, executive-facing Field CTO role focusing on data and AI strategy, industry transformation, and C-level relationship-building for regulated industries. Leads multi-year transformations, guides architecture decisions (Lakehouse and data platform modernization), engages with executives and engineers, and shapes product feedback while coordinating ecosystem partners across large enterprises.

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Field CTO - America Industries

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Job Summary

Senior, executive-facing Field CTO role focusing on data and AI strategy, industry transformation, and C-level relationship-building for regulated industries. Leads multi-year transformations, guides architecture decisions (Lakehouse and data platform modernization), engages with executives and engineers, and shapes product feedback while coordinating ecosystem partners across large enterprises.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and maintain trusted-advisor relationships with C-level executives in large US-based and global accounts in regulated industries.
  • •Shape executive thinking on modern data and AI architectures, with emphasis on Lakehouse and data platform modernization as the primary lever for long-term Gen AI impact.
  • •Lead C-level briefings, strategy sessions, and multi-day workshops that connect business outcomes, regulatory constraints, and operating model change to concrete roadmaps.
  • •Orchestrate the broader ecosystem (cloud providers, GSIs, consultancies, ISVs) around customer objectives to center multi-year transformation programs.
  • •Mentor senior Field Engineering and industry-focused talent, codifying ways of working for complex, regulated accounts and feeding into product/engineering feedback to influence roadmaps.

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years of experience spanning enterprise technology and consulting, including leading or advising on multi-year data platform and analytics transformations in large, complex organizations.
  • •Experience in or with regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, public sector, regulated manufacturing, utilities), with familiarity with regulatory and compliance considerations affecting data and AI platforms.
  • •Hands-on technology and architecture work on data platforms and analytics; organizational and operating model change (ways of working, skills, governance); executive consulting or advisory, ideally seeing transformations through from strategy to multi-year execution.
  • •Proven ability to operate as a highly credible peer to C-level executives, driving business-outcome-focused conversations while also diving deep into technical details when needed.
  • •Strong, proactive networker who uses associations, councils, and forums to create executive entry points and opportunities.
Experience:15+ yearsRegulated industriesEnterprise softwareCloud
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:DatabricksLakehouseData platformAI

Company Brief

Databricks
Provides a unified data analytics platform powered by Apache Spark to simplify building, deploying, and scaling data engineering, data science, and machine learning workloads for enterprises.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2013
WebsiteLinkedIn