About Mistral
Mistral is a pioneering full-stack AI solutions provider, offering cutting-edge models and developer tools to some of the most challenging industries. Our team is dedicated to transforming society through AI, and we have a dynamic, collaborative culture that thrives in competitive environments.
The Role
The Field CTO position is a critical role for Mistral, where one of its senior external technical voices will lead strategic accounts. This individual will represent Mistral at major industry events, engage with enterprise boards, and publish thought leadership that reflects a real point of view on the future of AI. They will work closely with regional sales leadership to shape how strategic accounts think about their AI strategy and will bring what they learn from executive conversations back into Mistral's product direction. This is an externally-facing, influence-driven role, and the output is measured in relationships built, content published, and executive conversations that move.
What You'll Do
Executive Engagement
Run Mistral's Executive Briefing Center with your regional VP; this is a selective program for C-level stakeholders at strategic accounts. This role will help establish and maintain trusted advisor relationships with CIOs, CTOs, and VP Engineering across your territory.
Thought Leadership
Publish regularly on topics such as articles, whitepapers, and analysis of where enterprise AI is heading. Brief Gartner and Forrester on Mistral's roadmap and market position. Track frontier research and bring it into customer conversations to keep Mistral's position in the AI market fresh and relevant.
Conference and Event Presence
Represent Mistral at major industry events through keynotes, panels, and roundtables. This role will help build a public presence that generates inbound interest from enterprise executives and the wider AI community.
Market Feedback
Bring what you hear in executive conversations back into product direction. Patterns across accounts on governance requirements and deployment constraints should reach the people building the models.
Requirements
- Demonstrable credibility in the AI field. A public track record in AI: published papers, articles, or talks that reflect a clear, defensible position. Your work should read as credible next to Mistral's technical brand.
- A stated position on open-weight models and what they change for the enterprises adopting them. Your existing public positions should sit comfortable next to Mistral's.
- Fluent in European data sovereignty and on-premise deployment, at the level that holds up with a CTO or VP Engineering asking hard questions.
- Comfortable engaging C-level stakeholders across multiple verticals on technical architecture and business strategy, in the same conversation.
- Cross-vertical fluency, you can credibly engage across financial services, manufacturing, defense, and energy without being a domain specialist in any one of them.
- 10-25 years of experience in enterprise technology. You have held roles such as Field CTO, Principal Architect, or VP Engineering at a major cloud or AI company, or a founder who built technical credibility and executive relationships through their own company.
- Comfortable with 30-50% travel depending on your region.
What We Offer
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your 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.
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