Field CTO
Paris-based AI company building frontier models, AI applications, developer tools, and compute infrastructure for enterprise and public-sector deployments.
About Mistral AI
Mistral AI develops open-weight and commercial language models and provides a full-stack AI platform spanning agents, application development, custom-model training, APIs, and AI cloud infrastructure.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will engage enterprise executives as a trusted technical advisor and run executive briefings with regional leadership. You will publish AI thought leadership, brief industry analysts, represent the role at events, track frontier research, and translate executive feedback on governance and deployment into product direction.
Requirements
- Demonstrable public credibility in AI through published papers, articles, or talks.
- A stated position on open-weight models and enterprise adoption.
- Knowledge of European data sovereignty and on-premise deployment.
- Ability to engage C-level stakeholders on technical architecture and business strategy.
- Ability to engage across financial services, manufacturing, defense, and energy.
- 10–25 years of enterprise technology experience.
- Experience as a Field CTO, Principal Architect, VP Engineering, or technical founder.
- Comfort with 30–50% travel.
Responsibilities
- Run executive briefings for C-level stakeholders at strategic accounts.
- Build trusted-advisor relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and VP Engineering.
- Publish articles, whitepapers, and analysis on enterprise AI.
- Brief Gartner and Forrester on product roadmap and market position.
- Represent the role through keynotes, panels, and roundtables.
- Track frontier AI research and apply it to customer conversations.
- Bring executive feedback on governance and deployment constraints into product direction.
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- Parental leave
- Retirement plans
- Relocation support
- Wellness programs
- Meal allowances
- Transportation allowances