What You’ll Do

The Strategic Technology Executive role at Teradata is a strategic, customer-facing executive position responsible for communicating Teradata’s product vision and platform differentiation directly to senior customer stakeholders. Reporting into the WW VantageCloud Platform Architecture organization, this role serves as a unified global voice from the field into Product, while also delivering consistent strategic messaging to customers.

The Field CTO is a technologist, market analyst, and trusted advisor who influences Teradata’s long-term product strategy through close customer collaboration and participation in cross-functional forums. This role will be a part of the Global Field CTO function within the Platform Architecture team enabling a tighter feedback loop from the field to Product and ensuring customer requirement alignment across regions and industries.

Key Responsibilities

Voice to Customers (Outbound Focus)

- Act as Teradata’s technical executive liaison to customer C-levels and senior leadership, articulating our long-term product vision and competitive differentiation.
- Lead strategic discussions on cloud modernization, hybrid/cloud architectures, and the Vantage roadmap (SQL to AI/ML to GenAI).
- Deliver executive briefings, workshops, and thought leadership at public conferences and customer events.
- Guide Solution Engineers (SEs) and Account Teams in strategic technical messaging and positioning.
- Drive consistency in outbound messaging through reusable assets, “gold standard” decks, white papers, and social content.

Voice into Product (Inbound Focus)

- Represent global field and customer perspectives in product strategy, roadmap planning, and prioritization sessions.
- Regularly interface with Product Management, Engineering, Product Marketing, and the Office of the Strategic Technology Executives
- Contribute to strategic forums including Product Advisory Councils, POC feedback loops, and roadmap workshops.
- Define and communicate long-range customer-driven needs (e.g., 2–4 year vision and North Star alignment).
- Partner with Product Marketing to refine customer-facing messaging based on field experience.

Global Leadership & Coordination

- Participate in a unified, global Strategic Technology Executive function that ensures consistent feedback loops and messaging across all geographies and industries.
- Coordinate and contribute to global initiatives such as internal knowledge sharing, bi-weekly Strategic Technology Executive alignment meetings, and consolidated product feedback summaries.
- Contribute to standing up the global Strategic Technology Executive operating model, including selection of regional representatives to support requirement gathering and formalizing engagement mechanisms with Product.

What Makes a Qualified Candidate

- Proven record of 15+ years of technical sales leadership, field technology advocacy, or product strategy roles.
- Deep technical knowledge in cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP), data platforms, data architecture, hybrid environments, and AI/ML use cases.
- Executive presence and the ability to communicate complex topics clearly to both technical and business audiences.
- Experience directly influencing product strategy through clearly structured feedback mechanisms.
- Ability to collaborate across engineering, marketing, and sales organizations to drive unified strategy execution.
- Demonstrated thought leadership via public speaking, publications, or recognized contributions to the analytics/cloud space.

Preferred Qualifications

- Technical degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Master’s or MBA is a plus).
- Prior experience in global, matrixed organizations with customer-facing strategic roles.
- Public cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Expert) preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to drive customer digital transformation and business outcomes through data and analytics.

What You’ll Get

- The opportunity to help shape Teradata’s future product vision.
- A platform to drive innovation and elevate customer conversations.
- The ability to build a globally influential network and be a change agent at the intersection of technology and business.