Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RSA Security provides identity and access management solutions for organizations worldwide, with a focus on authentication, access management, lifecycle management, and identity governance. The Field CTO will serve as the senior technical voice for RSA ID Plus, advising strategic customers, representing the platform publicly, supporting complex sales cycles, and shaping product strategy through market and customer insights.
Responsibilities
- Serve as trusted technical advisor to RSA's most strategic customers and prospects, engaging CISOs, CIOs, and enterprise architects on identity strategy, zero trust architecture, and modernization roadmaps
- Act as the primary technical evangelist for ID Plus through keynotes, conference sessions, webinars, whitepapers, and executive briefings, and lead analyst briefings alongside Product Management and Product Marketing
- Support complex, high-value sales cycles in regulated and enterprise environments, partnering with Sales and Solution Architecture to remove technical obstacles and win architectural decisions
- Maintain a rigorous view of the competitive landscape, from technical capability comparisons to positioning implications, and equip the field with the arguments needed to win against it
- Partner with Product Management and Product Marketing to shape platform strategy, refine positioning and messaging, and feed field insight into long-range strategic planning
- Build the technical credibility of the broader field organization through enablement, architecture guidance, and mentoring of solution architects and sales engineers
Skills
- 12+ years in senior technical roles such as Field CTO, Chief Architect, Principal Solution Architect, or Security Strategist, with extensive customer-facing experience
- Deep subject matter expertise in Identity & Access Management principles, including major technology standards in authentication (NIST SP800-63, FIDO2, X.509), federation and authorization (SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC), and emerging technologies (SSF, Verifiable Credentials)
- Demonstrated ability to design and defend enterprise security architectures across SaaS, private cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments
- Proven executive presence and commercial acumen, with a track record of advising CISOs and CIOs and influencing large, complex enterprise sales cycles without owning a quota
- Established industry voice, evidenced by conference speaking, published thought leadership, analyst engagement, or standards body participation
- Strong analytical skills and command of the competitive landscape, able to translate technical differentiation into defensible positioning and messaging, and to contribute that insight to product strategy and long-range planning
- Superior written and verbal communication skills, equally effective on a keynote stage, in a customer architecture review, and in an executive strategy discussion
- Independent self-starter who sets direction in ambiguity and operates effectively across a large, globally distributed organization
- Willingness to travel up to 30% for customer meetings, industry events, and speaking engagements
- All employees must be legally authorized to work in the US
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science; advanced degree a plus
Benefits
- Full-time, non-Sales US employees are also eligible for annual discretionary bonuses that are funded based on prior year company performance.
- Health insurance for eligible US employees.
- Disability insurance for eligible US employees.
- Life insurance for eligible US employees.
- A 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions for eligible US employees.
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