Field CTO, DACH

Mistral
Munich
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Executive & General ManagementExperience: 10-25 yearsSkills: ["Executive engagement","Thought leadership","Relationship building","Strategic thinking"]

Serve as Mistral’s senior external technical voice for the DACH region—engaging C-level executives and building trusted-advisor relationships with CIOs, CTOs, and VP Engineering. Lead an executive briefing program, publish thought leadership on enterprise AI and open-weight models, represent Mistral at major events, and feed governance and deployment learnings back into product direction. Partner with regional sales leadership and drive measurable executive conversations.

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Field CTO, DACH

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Job Summary

Serve as Mistral’s senior external technical voice for the DACH region—engaging C-level executives and building trusted-advisor relationships with CIOs, CTOs, and VP Engineering. Lead an executive briefing program, publish thought leadership on enterprise AI and open-weight models, represent Mistral at major events, and feed governance and deployment learnings back into product direction. Partner with regional sales leadership and drive measurable executive conversations.
Location: Munich
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: CXO level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Run Mistral’s Executive Briefing Center with your regional VP and build trusted-advisor relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and VP Engineering.
  • •Publish thought leadership (articles, whitepapers, analysis) on where enterprise AI is heading and brief analysts on Mistral’s roadmap and market position.
  • •Represent Mistral at major industry events through keynotes, panels, and roundtables to generate inbound interest from enterprise executives.
  • •Track frontier research and bring it into customer conversations to help shape enterprise AI strategy.
  • •Bring learnings from executive conversations back into product direction, especially patterns in governance requirements and deployment constraints.
Travel: High travel

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceParental LeaveRetirementRelocationWellness StipendMeal AllowanceCommuter Benefits

Key Requirements

  • •Demonstrable credibility in the AI field with a public track record (papers, articles, or talks) that shows a clear, defensible position.
  • •A stated position on open-weight models and what they change for enterprises adopting them.
  • •Fluency in European data sovereignty and on-premise deployment at a level credible for CTO/VP Engineering discussions.
  • •Comfort engaging C-level stakeholders across multiple verticals on technical architecture and business strategy.
  • •10–25 years of experience in enterprise technology, including roles such as Field CTO/Principal Architect/VP Engineering or a founder with proven technical credibility.
Experience:10-25 yearsEnterprise technologyAI
Skills:Executive engagementThought leadershipRelationship buildingStrategic thinking
Tech Stack:Open-weight modelsOn-premise deployment

Company Brief

Mistral
Develops state-of-the-art large language models and AI systems, offering models and developer tools for natural language understanding, generation, and enterprise AI integrations. Focuses on open research and production-ready model deployments.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Funding: Seed
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded: 2023
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