CTO – Paris ou Bordeaux

Our business: We help industrial companies accelerate their digital transformation and significantly improve operational efficiency and competitiveness through data, software, and AI. Our clients include CAC 40 companies as well as SMEs across five continents and over 150 industrial sites.What sets us apart: We combine deep expertise in software engineering and complex industrial data with hands-on, versatile profiles. Our team has a strong engineering background and a big-picture mindset, with a clear focus on business value, scalability, and seamless integration — offering end-to-end services across the entire lifecycle of data-driven software solutions, from ideation to scale.Your role: To strengthen our position as a leading player in software, data and AI and support our growth, we are looking for our future Chief Technology Officer (CTO). As the right hand of the Chief Operating Officer (COO), you will lead the company’s technical vision, maintaining and developing technical excellence across teams, while actively contributing to business development and project success.Your responsibilities are structured around four main pillars:1. Thought Leadership & External VisibilityYou embody Fieldbox’s technical vision and actively enhance its visibility and credibility:Identify high-value technical areas that create differentiation in business application engineering, including the use of AI in both products and development processes.Conduct continuous technology watch and integrate relevant trends into our strategic position.Represent the company at tech events (conferences, trade shows, podcasts, webinars).Produce high-impact technical content: articles, case studies, analyses, benchmarks.2. Positioning & Pre-SalesYou act as the technical reference throughout the commercial cycle:Support the Sales team in strategic prospecting and qualification meetings.Assess prospects’ technical maturity and identify potential risks.Spearhead initial engagements with new clients.Champion Fieldbox’s technical vision during pre-sales and highlight our strengths as a trusted technology partner, delivering innovative and reliable tech solutionsContribute to Go/No-Go decisions to reinforce positioning, support growth, and mitigate risks.Assist in designing offers from a technical perspective: solution architecture, technology choices, workload estimation, etc.3. Technical ExcellenceYou are the guardian of a shared standard of technical excellence, leveraging the expertise of key team members acting as technical coaches or Tech Leads:Lead reflection and feedback loops to challenge and evolve best practices, standards, and reference tech stacks.Strengthen our coaching and knowledge-sharing programs with your expertise.Play an active role in recruiting and evaluating technical talent.Guide teams in the use of AI technologies for development.4. Project DeliveryYou are actively involved in projects to secure technical decisions and ensure smooth execution:Engage operationally by providing hands-on support during scoping, design, and critical milestones.Challenge architectures and technical choices on strategic projects.Support project managers and Tech Leads in resolving critical issues and making key decisions.Profile sought:Solid technical background in software engineering, ideally in a consulting firm, IT services company, or tech startup.Strong knowledge of modern architectures: data, AI, cloud, CI/CD, DevOps, etc.Ability to articulate a strategic vision while maintaining credible technical discourse.Passion for knowledge sharing, technical communication, and cross-functional collaboration.Natural leadership and the ability to rally teams around a strong technical vision.Fluent in both French and English, written and spoken.