Field CTO

At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.

When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the microphone and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.

Field CTO – EMEA

Why We Have This Role

The EMEA Field CTO organization serves as the primary bridge between Qualtrics' product vision, customer strategy, field execution, and market innovation. In this role, your mandate is to Innovate, Prove, and Scale: you will partner with C-suite executives at strategic enterprise customers to shape their Experience Management (XM), AI, and enterprise technology transformation strategies. You won't just support deals—you'll generate new intellectual property, enterprise architectures, and sales motions that elevate how our entire field sales engineering team engages the market. Working closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success, you will establish Qualtrics as an indispensable platform within complex enterprise ecosystems.

How You’ll Find Success

• Strategic Innovation: A passion for developing differentiated platform positioning, strategic sales motions, and novel solution architectures that extend beyond single deal cycles.
• Executive Presence: Excitement around partnering with Fortune 500 C-suite leaders to deliver visionary keynotes, executive workshops, and high-impact advisory sessions.
• Systems & Ecosystem Thinking: A knack for connecting Qualtrics to broader enterprise technology stacks, including AI, data platforms, cloud, CRM, and ERP systems.
• Product-Field Translation: Enthusiasm for translating real-world market shifts, customer needs, and emerging technologies into actionable feedback for Product and Engineering teams.
• Scalable Mentorship: Joy in coaching, enabling, and scaling proven approaches to the broader field engineering organization to lift collective capabilities.

How You’ll Grow

• Executive & Advisory Standing: Expand your profile as an industry thought leader through speaking engagements, publications, analyst meetings, and executive briefings.
• Frontier Technology Mastery: Deepen your technical edge at the intersection of Enterprise Experience Management, Generative/Agentic AI, and enterprise data architecture.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Build top-tier strategic leadership experience by directly shaping Product roadmaps and field-wide go-to-market strategies.

Things You’ll Do

• Innovate Platform Positioning: Create and deploy new enterprise solution architectures, AI use cases, and strategic sales campaigns to position Qualtrics as a core platform in evolving market shifts.
• Prove Impact on Strategic Deals: Partner with Sales Engineering and AEs on our largest enterprise opportunities to validate innovative positioning and drive measurable business outcomes through executive workshops.
• Scale Capability to the Field: Package successful customer engagements into repeatable solution architectures, strategic sales plays, and enablement assets adopted by the broader sales engineering org.
• Influence Product Strategy: Establish a continuous feedback loop between Fortune 500 customers and internal Product & Engineering teams to prioritize key roadmap investments.
• Represent Qualtrics Globally: Drive market leadership by presenting at industry conferences, customer events, analyst briefings, and executive advisory sessions.

What We’re Looking For On Your CV

• Proven track record in enterprise solution architecture, strategic presales, or Field CTO roles within enterprise software.
• Demonstrated capability in architecting and positioning complex platforms alongside enterprise AI, data strategy, cloud, CRM, or CDP environments.
• Hands-on experience engaging and advising C-level executives at Fortune 500 organizations on digital transformation and business value.
• Track record of building repeatable intellectual property, technical positioning frameworks, or field enablement programs that scale across an organization.
• Cross-functional execution experience aligning Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success teams.

What You Should Know About This Team

• High-Impact Innovation Hub: We are not just deal support—we act as an internal incubator for new ideas, generating intellectual property, enterprise architectures, and sales plays that elevate the entire company's go-to-market strategy.
• Direct Influence on Product & Strategy: We sit at the exact intersection of field execution and product vision, giving us a direct voice to shape Qualtrics' platform strategy and influence product roadmaps based on real-world Fortune 500 interactions.
• Peer Community of Technical Experts: You’ll work alongside seasoned enterprise architects and industry thought leaders who value collaboration, high-velocity problem solving, and sharing technical innovation across the group.
• C-Suite Access & Executive Visibility: Our team leads the highest-stakes executive engagements, board-level vision sessions, and customer workshops across EMEA, giving you unmatched visibility inside and outside the company.
• Culture of Scaled Mentorship: We believe a win for one is a win for all; we actively invest time in translating individual successes into enablement programs that lift the capabilities of the broader field sales engineering org.

Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits

Global Perks & Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare & Mental Health: Fully funded Bupa private medical and dental insurance for you and your dependents, alongside 24/7 confidential mental health support, coaching, and care resources.
• Paid Leave: 25 days annual leave per year, plus 1 additional day per year of service (up to 5 additional days), alongside additional family support leave programs.
• Financial Protection & Equity: Income protection (66% of salary after 13 weeks of illness), death in service benefit (up to 4x salary), business travel accident coverage, and an Employee Equity Purchase Plan.
• Professional Growth & Career Support: Career Action Plans, mentorship programs, and resources covering interpersonal skills, time management, and work-life balance.

Regional & Team Perks (UK)

• Quarterly Wellness Allowance: Wellness reimbursement of up to £300 gross per quarter to support activities for you and your family.
• Company Pension Plan: 9% employer contribution with a 5% employee salary sacrifice contribution.
• Commuter Assistance: Up to £5,000 gross per year paid monthly via payroll toward commuting costs.
• Family Support & Experience Bonus: Annual Experience Bonus of £1,450 after one year of employment, plus adoption and surrogacy reimbursement up to £8,200.

The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life. #hybrid

Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.

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