Field CTO, DACH
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Job description
A senior, externally-facing Field CTO role at Mistral, acting as one of the company's senior external technical voices to engage enterprise boards, CIOs and CTOs on AI strategy. The role focuses on executive engagement, thought leadership, conference presence and feeding market feedback into product direction.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Run Mistral's Executive Briefing Center with your regional VP; a selective program for C-level stakeholders at strategic accounts
- Build and sustain trusted-advisor relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and VP Engineering across your territory
- Publish regularly: articles, whitepapers, and analysis of where enterprise AI is heading
- Brief Gartner and Forrester on Mistral's roadmap and market position
- Track frontier research and bring it into customer conversations
- Represent Mistral at major industry events through keynotes, panels, and roundtables
- Build a public presence that generates inbound interest from enterprise executives and the wider AI community
- Bring what you hear in executive conversations back into product direction
- Ensure patterns across accounts on governance requirements and deployment constraints reach the people building the models
- Work closely with regional sales leadership across your territory
What we're looking for
- Demonstrable credibility in the AI field with a public track record: published papers, articles, or talks that reflect a clear, defensible position
- A stated position on open-weight models and what they change for the enterprises adopting them
- Fluent in European data sovereignty and on-premise deployment, at the level that holds up with a CTO or VP Engineering asking hard questions
- Comfortable engaging C-level stakeholders across multiple verticals on technical architecture and business strategy in the same conversation
- Cross-vertical fluency: credibly engage across financial services, manufacturing, defense, and energy without being a domain specialist in any one of them
- 10–25 years of experience in enterprise technology, having held roles such as Field CTO, Principal Architect, or VP Engineering at a major cloud or AI company, or a founder who built technical credibility and executive relationships through their own company
- Comfortable with 30-50% travel depending on your region
Nice to have
- Existing network of CTO and CIO relationships at enterprise accounts in your region
- Prior Field CTO or equivalent externally facing technical role at a major cloud or AI company
- Fluent in multiple languages spoken across your region
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package designed to support well-being, growth, and work-life balance
Benefits vary by country and may include healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, meal and transportation allowances, and other location-specific perks
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About Mistral.ai
Full-stack AI solutions
Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector, co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms.
Key facts
- Teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East
- Partners with enterprises across finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector
- Provides frontier models, developer tools, applications, and compute
What they value
- Creative
- Low-ego
- Team-spirited