Field Chief Technology Officer - North America West

About 1Password

At 1Password, we’re building the foundation for a safe, productive digital future. Our mission is to unleash employee productivity without compromising security by ensuring every identity is authentic, every application sign-in is secure, and every device is trusted. We innovated the market-leading enterprise password manager and pioneered Unified Access Management, a new cybersecurity category built for the way people and AI agents work today. Over 180,000 businesses trust 1Password to help their teams securely adopt the SaaS and AI tools they need to do their best work.

The Role

Technical authority and commercial judgement create the bridge between architecture and business outcomes. As a 1Password Field Chief Technology Officer (Field CTO), you’ll help the world’s largest organizations navigate that bridge while shaping the future of enterprise identity security.

The Field CTO is the most senior customer-facing technical advisor within the 1Password Solutions Engineering organization. You’ll influence enterprise technology leaders, accelerate adoption of the 1Password platform, and help define how modern organizations secure every sign-in to every application from every device, including AI agents.

You’ll partner with executive buyers, enterprise architects, developers, and security practitioners to solve some of the industry’s most complex identity and access challenges. Beyond customer engagement, you’ll help scale the technical capabilities of the entire Solutions Engineering organization by transforming customer insights into repeatable playbooks, mentoring senior Solutions Engineers, and influencing product direction.

What We're Looking For

• Experience: 12+ years of experience in enterprise technology, cybersecurity, consulting, solutions engineering, enterprise architecture, or technical leadership roles.
• Executive Influence: Demonstrated success influencing executive technology leaders within Fortune 500 organizations.
• Technical Expertise: Deep technical expertise across identity, access management, privileged access, cloud security, developer platforms, SaaS security, or AI security.
• Communication: Exceptional executive communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business outcomes and compelling narratives.
• Sales Alignment: Experience supporting strategic enterprise sales opportunities and partnering closely with executive sales teams, with a strong understanding of modern sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC.
• Strategic Impact: Experience building technical strategies, reusable methodologies, or customer engagement frameworks that scale beyond individual contributions.
• Collaboration: Proven ability to build trusted relationships across Product, Engineering, Sales, and executive leadership while influencing without direct authority.
• Public Speaking: Experience speaking to diverse audiences at industry conferences, executive forums, and analyst events.
• Travel: Willingness to travel up to 50%.

Success in This Role (First 12 to 18 Months)

• Influence the successful outcome of 1Password’s most strategic customer opportunities and executive relationships.
• Build trusted partnerships with Product, Engineering, and GTM leadership that shape future platform investments.
• Create repeatable technical plays, executive messaging, and reference architectures adopted across the global Solutions Engineering organization.
• Elevate the technical capabilities of the field through mentorship, thought leadership, and executive engagement.
• Expand 1Password’s influence across the identity security community through conference speaking, customer advisory boards, and industry events.

What You Can Expect

Serve as a Trusted Technical Advisor

• Build relationships with CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, Chief Architects, and technical decision-makers across Fortune 500 organizations.
• Participate in executive briefings, architecture reviews, and strategic workshops to help customers solve complex identity, access, and security challenges.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the sales cycle, helping account teams navigate architecture discussions, competitive evaluations, and executive decision-making.

Shape the Future of Solutions Engineering

• Build repeatable technical motions, executive messaging, reference architectures, and technical playbooks that scale globally.
• Mentor senior Solutions Engineers and help raise the technical and consultative capabilities of the broader team.
• Partner with Sales Leadership, Solutions Engineering Leadership, and Enablement to identify emerging technical trends and strategic opportunities.

Influence Product Strategy

• Serve as the executive voice of the field by bringing customer feedback, competitive intelligence, and implementation insights directly to Product and Engineering leadership.
• Partner with Product Management and Engineering to influence roadmap priorities, validate emerging capabilities, and support early customer adoption programs.

Represent 1Password Externally

• Speak at conferences, executive events, customer advisory boards, analyst briefings, and industry forums.
• Develop technical thought leadership through presentations, blogs, webinars, whitepapers, and executive content.
• Serve as the executive technical face of 1Password for our most strategic customers and partners.