[Hiring] Field Chief Technology Officer @Workato

Role Description

We are hiring a Field CTO to serve as the most senior technology voice to our largest customers, prospects, and the market. The Field CTO is a C-suite-caliber technology executive who operates as a peer to the CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs of our Fortune 500 customers and a credible presence in their boardrooms. You will shape how the world's largest enterprises adopt agentic AI and automation at scale, translating Workato's platform vision into boardroom-ready strategy.

What You'll Own

• Trusted Advisor to the C-Suite: Serve as the senior technology counterpart to CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and Boards at our top strategic accounts.
• Boardroom Engagement: Present to customer Boards and executive committees on AI execution strategy, agentic operating models, governance, and the economics of enterprise automation.
• Strategic Deal Acceleration: Partner with Sales leadership on Workato's largest, most strategic, and most complex enterprise pursuits.
• Transformation Strategy: Advise customers on enterprise AI adoption, intelligent automation, modern integration architecture, governance models, and organizational readiness.
• Voice of the Market: Serve as a primary spokesperson at industry events, analyst briefings, executive forums, and customer advisory councils.
• Product & Strategy Influence: Translate field signals into direct input to the CEO, CPO, CTO, and Product organization.
• Field Enablement: Coach Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales leadership on executive engagement and strategic technology positioning.

Qualifications

• Enterprise Chief Information Officer (CIO) or Chief Technology Officer (CTO) experience at a Fortune 500 / Global 2000 organization.
• Commercial experience on either side of the table, preferably at an enterprise software vendor.
• 15+ years of senior technology leadership, including 5+ years at the C-suite or equivalent executive level.
• Deep fluency in enterprise integration architecture, AI and agentic systems, data platforms, cloud architecture, and the modern enterprise application ecosystem.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale digital transformation with measurable business outcomes.
• A compelling storyteller and communicator, with executive presence proven through Board work, public speaking, analyst engagement, media, or published thought leadership.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, influencing without formal authority, and navigating matrixed organizations.
• Naturally curious and commercially minded, energized by helping customers solve complex strategic challenges.

Requirements

• Approximately 60% travel to customer sites, executive briefing centers, industry events, and Workato headquarters.

Benefits

• A platform-defining role at the most strategic moment in enterprise software in a generation.
• Direct visibility to and influence with Workato’s CEO and executive team.
• Compensation commensurate with C-suite executive talent - competitive base, performance incentives, and meaningful equity.
• The opportunity to shape the category that will define how the Fortune 500 operates for the next decade.