The Daily Life of a Field CTO

Field CTO is a job role that comes up more and more in software companies. There is no standard definition for this job role. As I regularly get the question about what a Field CTO does, this blog post summarizes a few general characteristics and then explores my daily life as a Field CTO. The post concludes with the answer to how you can also become a Field CTO at a software company in your career.

(Originally posted on Kai Waehner’s blog: “The Daily Life of a Field CTO” — Join the data streaming community and stay informed about new blog posts by subscribing to my newsletter)

General characteristics of a Field CTO

Search through business and employment-focused social media platforms like LinkedIn or jobs networks and portals like Indeed or Glassdoor. You will see many of the following characteristics, experiences, and tasks of most people that own a position as Field CTO:

• Meet many stakeholders across entire customer projects and sales lifecycles: Work with prospects/customers and partners (like cloud service providers, other software vendors, and system integrators) to ensure customer success. This includes joint planning of customer projects, a strategic roadmap for the enterprise architecture, or technical partnerships.
• Talk business and tech in the same…