Chief Technology Officer

• Define the long-term architecture for AI systems, infrastructure, and developer platform
• Evaluate trade-offs between speed of iteration and long-term system design
• Ensure systems are designed for scalability, reliability, and long-term evolution
• Guide decisions across model integration, data pipelines, distributed systems, and product architecture
• Translate product direction into clear technical execution with engineers
• Structure engineering workstreams and align teams on priorities
• Maintain high engineering standards while focusing on shipping
• Establish engineering culture, development practices, and technical standards
• Build and scale an engineering team across China and the US
• Identify technical leaders and build a high-quality engineering organization
• Define hiring standards and interview processes
• Collaborate with product, research, and leadership teams
• Coordinate technical workstreams across teams and locations
• Resolve cross-team technical and execution challenges

Chief Technology Officer, Artificial Intelligence

• Run cold outbound-driven sales cycles to convert leads into long-term Mercury partners
• Go deep to uncover business cases and pain that aren't obvious on the surface
• Sell across multiple products in longer, more strategic cycles
• Multi-thread across stakeholders and build champions inside the account
• Build mutual action plans and drive deals forward on a shared timeline
• Influence requirements in Mercury's favor as accounts evaluate their options
• Orchestrate multiple stakeholders and moving pieces at once without dropping the thread
• Own and expand the relationship across the first 90 days of the customer journey
• Work directly with founders, business owners, and finance teams to understand operational needs and guide them to the right financial tools
• Help customers shape their finance stack with Mercury and simplify migration across their full stack

Account Executive – Technology

• Act as a trusted technical advisor and executive-level proxy in customer and prospect conversations
• Translate Slack's platform roadmap and architecture into business outcomes for CIOs, CTOs, and other technical decision-makers
• Partner with sales leadership on strategic and enterprise deals, shaping technical win strategies, addressing platform/security/scale objections, and unblocking stalled evaluations
• Serve as a feedback loop between the field and product/engineering to surface customer needs, competitive gaps, and platform requests that shape the roadmap
• Represent Slack at industry events, executive forums, analyst briefings, and customer advisory boards
• Build and maintain relationships with customer executive sponsors
• Mentor and upskill account teams and sales engineers on technical storytelling and platform depth
• Partner with product marketing and product management on positioning, competitive differentiation, and narrative development
• Report into the CRO's organization and work cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success leadership

Chief Technology Officer jobs in California

Chief Technology Officer, Artificial Intelligence

Account Executive – Technology

Field CTO