CTO Australia
Breakmark · Australia
At Breakmark, we're partnering with one of the fastest-growing companies in enterprise AI to hire a Field CTO for Australia.
The company is building the infrastructure that enables large enterprises to design, deploy, and manage AI agents across complex business workflows—powering customer and employee interactions through voice, chat, email, and back-office systems in any language or market.
The Opportunity
This is a rare opportunity to join at an early stage in a role that combines the responsibilities of a technical leader, customer-facing executive, and hands-on engineer.
As Site CTO, you'll own the technical strategy for your region, partnering with enterprise customers while building the local technical organisation from the ground up. You'll work at the intersection of Engineering, Product, Sales, and Customer Success, helping shape both customer outcomes and the company's long-term regional strategy.
This is far more than a traditional CTO position—you'll move seamlessly between executive architecture conversations, technical leadership, and writing production code when needed.
What You'll Do
🚀 Lead Enterprise Technical Engagements
Partner with enterprise customers throughout the sales process.
Lead technical discovery, product demonstrations, architecture reviews, and integration discussions.
Serve as a trusted technical advisor for AI deployments in production environments.
💻 Stay Hands-On
Build integrations, prototypes, and production-ready solutions.
Set high engineering standards around scalability, reliability, and performance.
Support complex customer implementations requiring deep technical expertise.
👥 Build & Lead the Regional Technical Team
Recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering and solutions organisation.
Establish best practices across architecture, delivery, and customer success.
Create the technical foundation for long-term regional growth.
⚙️ Own Customer Delivery
Lead enterprise implementations from solution design through deployment.
Ensure AI solutions operate reliably and effectively in production.
Solve high-impact technical challenges alongside customers and internal teams.
🌍 Shape Regional Strategy
Bring customer feedback into Product and Engineering roadmaps.
Adapt solutions to regional market needs.
Represent the technical organisation across customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
What We're Looking For
✅ Strong Technical Leadership
7+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience.
5+ years leading high-performing engineering teams.
Experience building technical organisations from the ground up.
Proven ownership of production systems at scale.
✅ Technical Depth + Executive Presence
Comfortable discussing architecture with engineers and strategy with executive leadership.
Able to balance hands-on execution with long-term technical vision.
✅ Startup Mindset
High ownership and bias for action.
Thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
Prior Startup Founder experience is a MUST
✅ AI Experience
Strong understanding of AI, LLMs, and modern AI infrastructure.
Experience delivering AI-powered products into production is highly desirable.
✅ Communication
Excellent English communication skills.
Fluent or native in the local market language.
Confident leading customer meetings, technical workshops, and executive presentations.
Why This Role?
✨ Join one of the fastest-growing AI companies globally.
🌍 Build the technical organisation for an entire region.
🤝 Work directly with enterprise customers solving complex, high-impact problems.
🚀 Shape the future of enterprise AI while helping define how the company scales internationally.
If you're excited by the idea of combining engineering leadership, customer engagement, and startup building, we'd love to hear from you.