Sonar
Field CTO
Remote USA · Exec · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 224 days ago
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About the role
- Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it - your internal team, genAI, or third parties - resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications.
- Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.
- We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily.
Responsibilities
- Executive Advisory & Engagement: Engage in deep, strategic advisory conversations with CTOs, Chief Architects, and VP-level technology leaders at our largest global accounts and partners, helping them rationalize the technical path to achieving measurable business impact and value with Sonar's platform.
- External Thought Leadership & Brand Building: Serve as a highly credible, senior spokesperson for Sonar, representing the company at major industry conferences, webinars, and executive briefings, and engaging with press and industry analysts.
- Executive Enablement & Partnerships: Leverage your professional network and credibility to facilitate strategic engagements for Sonar's leadership team, while simultaneously identifying, developing, and supporting strategic technology partnerships and acting as an Ecosystem Orchestrator for complex client initiatives.
- Technical Content Creation: Lead the creation of high-impact technical content (e.g., whitepapers, reference architectures, advanced blog posts) that showcases Sonar's expertise across the SDLC
- Strategic Sales Support & Technical Validation: Support the most complex and strategic sales cycles by providing unmatched technical credibility and executive-level context.
- This includes delivering validated evidence and building tailored architectural walkthroughs and proofs-of-concept that demonstrate Sonar's behavior and value in the customer's real-world environment.
- We do not currently support visa candidates in the US.
Requirements
- Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex, multi-domain technical topics into strategic business implications for C-level audiences.
Compensation
- We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
Benefits
- Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package.
- You will receive 23 days of PTO per calendar year (on a pro-rated basis depending on your employment start date), with additional time provided for sickness, life events and holidays.
- We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our
- We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success.
- Benefits of Working With Sonar:
- We Value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength.
Company info
- As a Field CTO, you will serve as a critical strategic conduit between Sonar's leadership and the world's most sophisticated enterprise technology leaders.
- Your focus will be a mix of strategic market evangelism and deep technical advisory.
- You will enhance Sonar's brand reputation and credibility as the definitive thought leader on the future of the SDLC in the age of AI, and your engagements with high-profile customers will directly inform and shape our product roadmap and GTM strategy, ensuring Sonar remains indispensable at the highest levels of global technology organizations.
- This is a global role that will require frequent travel to customer sites as well as to our many offices.
- Serve as a highly credible, senior spokesperson for Sonar, representing the company at major industry conferences, webinars, and executive briefings, and engaging with press and industry analysts.
- Extensive experience in software development, solutions architecture, or a related field.
- Proven experience holding a senior strategic technology leadership role (Divisional CTO, VP Solutions Architect) within a major global enterprise or a leading technology company.
- Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!).
- We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.
- We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures.
- At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength.
- We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best.
Visa & Work Authorization
- We do not currently support visa candidates in the US.
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