Field Chief Technology Officer

Workato•Palo Alto, CA

7d•Remote

About The Position

Workato is hiring a Field Chief Technology Officer to be its most senior technology voice with major customers, prospects, and the market. The role acts as a C-suite-caliber peer to CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs at Fortune 500 organizations, advising executive teams and boards on enterprise AI, automation, and technology transformation. The Field CTO translates Workato’s platform strategy into executive-level guidance, influences strategic customer outcomes and enterprise platform adoption, and brings market intelligence to the company’s product roadmap and go-to-market strategy. The role partners with Sales on complex strategic pursuits, advises customers on AI adoption and modern enterprise architecture, represents Workato at industry events and analyst briefings, and coaches internal field teams on executive engagement. It is remote within the United States and requires approximately 60% travel.

Requirements

Experience as an enterprise CIO or CTO at a Fortune 500 or Global 2000 organization, with ownership of enterprise architecture, application portfolios, technology strategy, and large-scale transformation.
15+ years of senior technology leadership, including 5+ years at the C-suite or equivalent executive level.
Deep knowledge of enterprise integration architecture, AI and agentic systems, data platforms, cloud architecture, and modern enterprise applications such as Salesforce, SAP, Workday, ServiceNow, NetSuite, Oracle, and Microsoft.
Demonstrated success leading large-scale digital transformation with measurable business outcomes.
Executive presence and strong communication and storytelling skills, demonstrated through board work, public speaking, analyst engagement, media, or published thought leadership.
Ability to operate in ambiguity, influence without formal authority, navigate matrixed organizations, and work at the pace of a high-growth platform company.
Commercial judgment, curiosity, and executive maturity, with enthusiasm for helping customers solve complex strategic challenges.
Approximately 60% travel to customer sites, executive briefing centers, industry events, and Workato headquarters.

Nice To Haves

Executive-level experience at an enterprise software vendor selling into the Fortune 500, particularly in iPaaS, AI/ML, cloud platforms, data, ERP, or adjacent infrastructure.
Alternatively, customer-facing operator experience representing a company’s products, platform, and capabilities to enterprise customers, advisory boards, and industry analysts.
Proximity to a major airport hub.

Responsibilities

Serve as senior technology counterpart to CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and boards at strategic accounts.
Lead executive briefings, advisory councils, strategic visioning sessions, and architecture reviews that shape multi-year transformation roadmaps.
Present to customer boards and executive committees on AI execution strategy, agentic operating models, governance, and enterprise automation economics.
Build alignment across business and technology stakeholders to support complex transformation decisions.
Partner with Sales leadership on strategic enterprise pursuits, strengthen executive sponsorship, expand opportunity scope, and help unlock large platform investments.
Advise customers on enterprise AI adoption, intelligent automation, integration architecture, governance, and organizational readiness.
Develop pragmatic customer roadmaps for sustainable business transformation.
Represent Workato at industry events, analyst briefings, executive forums, and customer advisory councils.
Create keynotes, executive point-of-view papers, and strategic content establishing Workato’s leadership in enterprise AI execution.
Provide field intelligence to the CEO, CPO, CTO, and Product organization on roadmap priorities, platform strategy, competitive positioning, and emerging customer requirements.
Coach Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales leadership on executive engagement, strategic technology positioning, and boardroom storytelling.
Build repeatable frameworks to scale Workato’s executive engagement motion.