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CDW · 5 hours ago

Field CTO

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$200K/yr - $250K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Develop segment strategies with CDW Sales Segment VP’s and other leaders that includes how to best engage with their segment leaders, key sellers and most strategic accounts, developing a regular cadence to both share DV offerings and perspectives as well as to be informed on evolving segment needs.

Operate as the CTO of their assigned segment, acting as the primary technical visionary for the entire DV portfolio, maintaining technical acumen on components of the portfolio as it evolves with the industry and customer needs.

Act in the binding role within pre-sales engagements for strategic, cross functional, full stack solutions in strategically important clients, developing a solution approach and engaging Solution Architects and senior client leadership to ensure alignment and support.

Partner with the Digital Infrastructure team to evolve the common portfolio, collaborate on pipeline and cloud opportunities, and maintain a culture of trust and openness in identifying, progressing, closing, and delivering on Cloud advisory services engagements.

Act as the technical advisor and strategist for the Sales Segment Leadership.

Drive DV consulting growth in key markets through a combination of thought leadership and positioning DV solutions.

Identify, inform and guide new DV services offerings by leveraging industry analysis.

Work with corresponding Business Development Managers to build and progress an opportunity pipeline for DV. Focus on driving and closing DV category and services revenue to achieve the overall DV revenue and gross profit targets.

Deliver advisory services in collaboration with their peers across CDW ITS. Build customer high level designs and roadmaps for technology adoption. Demonstrate the ability to scope engagements to a high degree of accuracy with appropriate assistance and review from CDW and partner pre-sales and post-sales resources.

Perform in an oversight role for large, complex customer engagements where appropriate.

Demonstrate good teamwork with coworkers and follow the specific directives of the CDW management team.

Maintain knowledge (industry expert) about products, applications, technical service, market conditions, competitive activities, advertising and promotional trends through the reading of pertinent literature and consulting with marketing and technical services. The F-CTO must be better than the customer, and able to quickly understand customer requirements and move a customer to the opportunity stage.

Conduct presentations online and in-person to existing and prospective clients, demonstrating an ability to own the DV message, own the presentation, own the room.”

Conduct client interviews to collect detailed information and to assist in the calculation of TCO and ROI and success criteria/metrics for collaboration opportunities. Present findings to customers

Help to create client-facing business development activities, solution adoption roadmaps, case studies, perform demand generation and support follow-ups. The F-CTO will own the activities and follow-ups for strategic, critical opportunities.

Participate in client seminars, conferences and workshops as necessary

Create comprehensive and holistic solutions utilizing CDW and partner resources to deliver unified solution proposals

Perform billable work at clients (Consulting Engagements) where appropriate to meet the revenue contribution target

Mentor engineers and SAs to mature their operational knowledge and disciplines to support DV business lines of service

Meet training and certification requirements for selected vendors and technologies (GCP, Azure, AWS, Hashicorp,,Ansible, GCP, etc)

Travel estimate: 30%

Qualification

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Artificial Intelligence StrategyCloud Native solutionsDevOpsInfrastructure as CodePublic cloud (AWS)Public cloud (Azure)Public cloud (GCP)Continuous IntegrationContinuous DeliverySoftware developmentApplication modernizationData solutions

Required

MUST LIVE IN THE NORTHWEST AREA (California acceptable)

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business Administration or fifteen years or more of IT sales or solution architecture experience

5 years of industry experience and 5+ years of experience in a role similar to CTO, CIO, VP/Dir of Engineering, VP/Dir of Operations, VP/Dir of Product Development will be considered in lieu of degree.

Demonstrated ability to conduct conversations with C-Level individuals as well as lines of business executives where selling solutions are the focus

Strong experience with public cloud (AWS, Azure and/or GCP), along with a few of the following: DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, modern data & AI, modern software and cloud native software

Have worked in a professional services/solution selling environment (not seeking an in-house CTO)

Strong interpersonal and presentation skills including consulting skills

Strong oral and written communication skills