Senior Director Field CTOs
Job Summary
The Senior Director, Field CTOs will lead a global, senior team of Field CTOs while personally engaging in strategic customer accounts. This player-coach role bridges the gap between technical strategy, executive engagement, and cross-functional go-to-market priorities. You will drive thought leadership in DevSecOps and AI-powered software development while advising C-suite stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a global team of senior Field CTOs
- Drive strategic engagement with C-suite and executive stakeholders
- Shape technical strategy for DevSecOps and AI integration
- Translate field feedback into product and marketing roadmaps
Required Skills
- Strategic leadership and people management
- Expertise in DevSecOps and AI-driven software development
- Executive-level communication and presence
- Remote, asynchronous collaborative coordination
Job Details
### Role Overview
As the Senior Director, Field CTOs, you will lead a small, senior team of Field CTOs while continuing to operate as one yourself. You will help shape the technical voice in GitLab's most strategic customer conversations, guide how the team engages across regions, and turn field insights into input for sales, product, and marketing leadership.
### Key Responsibilities
- Lead the global Field CTO team by hiring, developing, and retaining senior technical leaders.
- Set the operating model for the team, including engagement scoping, account/region matching, and insight documentation.
- Coach senior individual contributors through one-on-ones, peer reviews, and development plans focused on judgment and executive presence.
- Personally engage as the senior technical voice on strategic accounts, supporting complex pre-sales motions and executive relationships.
- Deliver thought leadership on DevSecOps, AI for software development, security, and platform modernization via briefings and events.
- Partner with sales, solutions engineering, customer success, product, and marketing to align with go-to-market priorities.
- Represent GitLab externally with analysts, media, and industry audiences.
- Curate field feedback into actionable input for product direction, marketing narratives, and technical enablement.
### Qualifications
- Experience leading senior, customer-facing technical teams (e.g., Field CTO, Principal Solutions Architect, Principal Sales Engineer).
- Strong people leadership skills, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and strategic deployment.
- Significant experience as a technology leader in DevSecOps, application security, or related executive technical positions.
- Demonstrated understanding of AI for software development and its impact on developer productivity and enterprise strategy.
- Deep knowledge of software development practices, CI/CD, cloud architecture, and secure software delivery.
- Executive communication skills, capable of building credibility with senior technology and security leaders.
- Experience representing a company externally through events, analyst conversations, and media.
- Ability to work autonomously in a fully remote, asynchronous environment across multiple time zones.