Worldwide Government, Defense, & Intelligence Industry CTO

Serve as the bridge between industry advisors, FDE studios, engineering, industry leadership, and field sales, connecting customer demand, market signals, roadmap gaps, and repeatable solution patterns. Prioritize impact, scalable opportunities where Frontier Company can create differentiated customer outcomes and measurable business impact. Shape technology roadmaps by converting customer and regulatory requirements into actionable engineering feedback and product priorities. Partner with industry leadership, industry advisors, account teams, and FDE studios to technically qualify and prioritize opportunities. Drive pattern recognition across FDE engagements and convert learnings into reusable architectures, playbooks, partner motions, and scalable solution assets. Help reduce friction & risk by identifying technical blockers, architectural gaps, compliance dependencies, and partner requirements. Operate as the single-point CTO for the GD&I industry while leading through influence across a matrixed set of industry, sales, engineering, partner, and delivery teams. Establish clear rhythms with industry advisors, FDE studio peers, business leaders, engineering leaders, and field technical communities to align priorities, conduct technical sales enablement, and remove friction. Mentor and develop technical leaders across the GD&I ecosystem. Create mechanisms to share patterns, lessons learned, and technical guidance so successful Frontier and FDE engagements can repeat and scale globally. 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects. Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination. Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment. Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance. Expertise in one or more areas including AI, cloud, cybersecurity, digital transformation, and/or technology policy, including trends relevant to government, defense, intelligence, or regulated industries at a global level. Experience leading technology initiatives involving sovereignty, compliance, authority to operate, security, and/or mission-critical regulated environments. Demonstrated ability to influence product or engineering strategy across multiple organizations without direct authority, in alignment with sales strategy. Executive customer engagement experience with high-level government, defense, intelligence, DIB, and/or national security stakeholders. Experience building and leading global communities of practice, technical governance forums, or cross-functional execution rhythms. Experience with government, defense, intelligence, national security, sovereign cloud, or classified/regulated mission environments. Public speaking, standards-body participation, executive advisory, and/or GD&I-relevant thought-leadership experience. Respected, known, and influential at scale. Build trusted relationships with senior government, defense, intelligence, DIB, and national security technology leaders, serving as a strategic advisor on frontier technologies and agentic AI transformation. Partner with Engineering, CELA, security, compliance, and government affairs stakeholders on authorization, regulatory, and procurement motions including FedRAMP, NIST, sovereign requirements, ATO pathways, and mission-specific controls. Accelerate resolution of technical and policy blockers that affect strategic customer commitments, delivery, and scale. Shape partner integration and platform adoption strategies with software vendors, systems integrators, and mission partners where co-build and co-delivery are required to scale.