CTO – Financial Services

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Philippines.

📋 Description

• Define and promote Salesforce’s perspective on industry technology through innovative insights, published materials, and executive presentations.

• Link industry trends and disruptions to tangible business value.

• Serve as an industry technology authority for Salesforce at events, forums, executive roundtables, and customer presentations.

• Develop reusable industry resources and guidance while mentoring technical teams.

• Establish and maintain trusted relationships with C-level executives among key ASEAN customers.

• Provide strategic advice to customers on investments, enterprise architecture, and transformation, fostering a preference for Salesforce.

• Collaborate with sales and solution engineering teams on significant opportunities, business cases, and executive engagement.

• Advocate for ASEAN customer needs within Salesforce Product Management to influence product roadmaps and development.

• Create industry solutions, demonstrations, and AI prototypes in collaboration with technical teams.

• Analyze Salesforce’s competitive landscape and customer market dynamics to guide positioning, technology decisions, and differentiation strategies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Comprehensive understanding of relevant industry business models, operational processes, and regulatory factors across various ASEAN markets.

• Proven ability to evaluate emerging technologies, evolving customer expectations, regulatory changes, and disruptive business models.

• History of leading large-scale industry-related transformations across multiple business lines.

• Proven experience in building trusted C-level relationships with key ASEAN clients and influencing their technology investment decisions.

• Enthusiasm for AI demonstrated through ongoing learning, experimentation, and practical implementation.

• Extensive expertise in at least one relevant area of AI.

• Proven experience in creating demos and prototypes tailored for customer use cases.

• Profound practical knowledge of Salesforce technology.

• Experience in designing, configuring, and building Salesforce solutions, demos, and prototypes across relevant clouds and industry capabilities.

• Expertise in architecture, data integration, and implementation.

• Experience in translating customer needs into prioritized product recommendations and influencing product roadmaps.

• Experience in aligning partners and internal teams, along with mentoring technical talent.

• Strong knowledge of Salesforce competitors, alternative platforms, architectural trade-offs, competitive pressures, emerging entrants, and differentiation opportunities.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to foster trust among customers, product management, technical teams, and partners.

• Relevant industry/technology experience; director-level operations or equivalent leadership scope, with executive influence and a proven track record.

• Established industry credibility through senior technology/architecture leadership roles in an industry customer organization or senior technical/advisory positions within a technology or solutions vendor.

🏝️ Benefits

• Benefits and resources designed to promote balance and wellbeing.

• AI agents that enhance employee impact.

• Equal opportunity and non-discrimination workplace policy.

• Reasonable accommodations available during the application or recruitment process.