Regional Field CTO

🕒 September 11

🌐 United Kingdom, Germany, +6 more countries – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇩🇪 Germany – Remote 🇳🇱 Netherlands – Remote 🇫🇷 France – Remote 🇮🇹 Italy – Remote 🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote 🇫🇮 Finland – Remote 🇸🇪 Sweden – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👨‍💼 Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

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Black Duck

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5001 - 10000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

📋 Compliance

Cybersecurity • SaaS • Compliance

Black Duck is a leader in application security testing and software composition analysis. Now part of Synopsys Software Integrity Group, it offers a unified SaaS platform optimized for DevSecOps. Their solutions enable businesses to automate security testing across the entire software development life cycle, manage open source licenses and compliance, and secure the software supply chain. Recognized as a leader by Gartner and Forrester, Black Duck provides a range of services including static, dynamic, and interactive application security testing, as well as open source audits and risk management solutions.

📋 Description

• Serve as trusted technical advisor and recurring executive sponsor for C-level and senior technical stakeholders at strategic accounts • Lead multidisciplinary technical engagements, including executive briefings, architecture reviews, whiteboard sessions, customer advisory feedback loops, and partner or analyst discussions • Represent Black Duck as a technical evangelist through keynotes, webinars, whitepapers, thought leadership content, and external engagements with press, analysts, and partners • Translate AI/ML, detection engine, and platform architecture capabilities into credible narratives for technical and executive audiences • Partner with Sales and Presales leadership on strategic opportunities, technical deep-dives, architecture reviews, executive briefings, product launches, roadmap changes, and competitive positioning • Support RFPs and security questionnaires with authoritative technical input • Engage strategic accounts to strengthen technical trust, identify expansion opportunities, mitigate renewal risk, and guide application security maturity • Solve problems of strategic or industry scope to remove technical barriers and improve business outcomes • Provide guidance on AI-assisted software development, agentic workflows, application security trends, and competitive market dynamics • Capture and escalate regional customer, partner, and market feedback to Product, Engineering, and Sales • Influence roadmap, packaging, launch readiness, and go-to-market strategy • Coach and review technical storytelling by sales engineers and account executives

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years in a senior technical leadership role, including several years in a customer-facing or field/pre-sales capacity • Proven track record engaging and influencing C-level and senior technical audiences at enterprise organizations • Demonstrated success across complex enterprise sales cycles • Domain expertise in application security (SAST, SCA, DAST), enterprise architecture, cloud/SaaS platforms, APIs and integrations, and security best practices • Deep practical understanding of AI/ML concepts applied to security, including anomaly detection, large language models, behavioral analytics, AI-assisted software development, and agentic workflows • Understanding of AI/ML limitations and controls needed for responsible adoption • Experience negotiating with and influencing executive leadership, customers, partners, analysts, or vendors • Ability to determine objectives and approaches for complex, critical assignments • Experience shaping standards, methods, practices, or market-facing technical narratives • Ability to translate complex technical concepts for executive and highly technical audiences • Demonstrated industry presence through conference speaking, published thought leadership, industry/analyst communities, customer advisory leadership, or comparable external technical influence • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills • Willingness and ability to travel up to 50% • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent practical experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Willingness and ability to travel up to 50% to customer sites and industry events • Equal opportunity employment • Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law