Field CTO, US

Mistral • San Francisco, CA

4d

About The Position

Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions, including frontier models, developer tools, applications, and compute. The company partners with enterprises in high-stakes industries to co-create customized AI systems that customers can run on their own terms. Its distributed, collaborative teams work across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East.

The Field CTO is a senior external technical voice for Mistral, engaging enterprise boards, CIOs, and CTOs as a peer. The role shapes strategic accounts’ AI strategies, represents Mistral at major industry events, and publishes thought leadership about the direction of AI. Working closely with regional sales leadership, the Field CTO shares insights from executive conversations with Mistral’s product teams. This is an externally facing, influence-driven role measured by relationships built, content published, and executive conversations advanced.

The role leads Mistral’s Executive Briefing Center with the regional VP, builds trusted-advisor relationships with senior enterprise technology leaders, publishes articles and whitepapers, briefs Gartner and Forrester on Mistral’s roadmap and market position, tracks frontier research, and represents Mistral at conferences. It also brings customer feedback about governance requirements and deployment constraints into product direction.

Requirements

• Demonstrable credibility in the AI field.
• A public track record in AI, such as published papers, articles, or talks that reflect a clear, defensible position and align credibly with Mistral’s technical brand.
• A stated position on open-weight models and their implications for enterprises; existing public positions should sit comfortably alongside Mistral’s.
• Fluency in European data sovereignty and on-premise deployment, sufficient to address challenging questions from CTOs and VPs of Engineering.
• Comfort engaging C-level stakeholders across multiple verticals on technical architecture and business strategy in the same conversation.
• Cross-vertical fluency to engage credibly across financial services, manufacturing, defense, and energy without specializing in just one domain.
• 10–25 years of experience in enterprise technology.
• Experience in a role such as Field CTO, Principal Architect, or VP Engineering at a major cloud or AI company, or as a founder who developed technical credibility and executive relationships through their company.
• Comfort with 30–50% travel, depending on the region.

Nice To Haves

• Existing network of CTO and CIO relationships at enterprise accounts in the region.
• Prior Field CTO or equivalent externally facing technical role at a major cloud or AI company.
• Fluency in multiple languages spoken across the region.

Responsibilities

• Run Mistral’s Executive Briefing Center with the regional VP for C-level stakeholders at strategic accounts.
• Build and sustain trusted-advisor relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and VPs of Engineering across the territory.
• Publish articles, whitepapers, and analysis on the direction of enterprise AI.
• Brief Gartner and Forrester on Mistral’s roadmap and market position.
• Track frontier research and bring relevant developments 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 insights from executive conversations—including patterns in governance requirements and deployment constraints—back into product direction.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed