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Field CTO

Druva · Santa Clara, CA · On-site

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About Druva

Druva’s AI-powered, cloud-native SaaS platform delivers data security, identity resilience, backup protection, and fast ransomware recovery. Try it today! Backed by Peak XV.

About the role

The Field CTO leads and grows Druva’s global SME team while serving as our most senior technical evangelist in the field. This leader connects our workload expertise to the security and data-resilience story spanning data lifecycle management and data loss prevention (DLP) and carries that story to customers, partners, and the market to drive pipeline growth and conversion.

What they're looking for

  • Engage: Drive security strategy conversations with top customers or prospects and articulate Druva’s security value proposition
  • Build Trust: Leverage executive presence & credibility to build trusted relationships with C-level technology peers (CIO, CISO, CTO, CDO)
  • Enable security thought leadership: help build written or recorded collateral and speak at industry events to proactively build Druva’s security brand
  • Be Voice of Customer: Understand customers’ security pain points across industry segments/verticals and funnel insight into internal product and strategy prioritization processes
  • Deeply engage with Product, Marketing and Sales teams to define messaging & outreach strategies targeting security personas
  • Demonstrate empathy towards customers’ mission and security objectives
More about this role

Druva is the resilience foundation for the AI enterprise, helping organizations secure and recover from connected risk across data, cyber, identity, and AI. The Resilience Cloud is a fully managed, cloud-native SaaS platform that delivers air-gapped and immutable protection across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, endpoint, and edge environments. Powered by Dru MetaGraph, Druva’s graph-powered intelligence layer, the platform connects critical business context so customers can understand risk, respond faster, recover cleanly, and govern data with greater confidence.

Trusted by nearly 7,500 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 500, Druva helps safeguard the critical information and systems businesses depend on in an increasingly connected world.

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This role leads Druva’s global Subject Matter Expert (SME) team — the deep technical specialists who own our most strategic workloads, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Microsoft 365, and other cloud-native and collaboration environments. This team is the technical authority the Sales Engineering organization and our customers rely on to design, prove, and win the most...

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