Regional Field Chief Technology Officer (AI)

Location: Tokyo, Japan; travel up to 50% to customer sites and industry events.

Salary: ¥20,000,000–¥40,000,000 JPY annually.

Company

hirify.global provides application security solutions, including SAST, SCA, and DAST, to help organizations secure proprietary code, open-source components, and application behavior across the software development life cycle.

What you will do

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor and executive sponsor for C-level and senior technical stakeholders at strategic enterprise, federal, and other key accounts.
• Lead executive briefings, architecture reviews, whiteboard sessions, customer advisory activities, and other multidisciplinary technical engagements.
• Represent the platform and roadmap through keynotes, webinars, whitepapers, industry events, press, analyst, and partner engagements.
• Translate AI/ML, detection engine, and platform architecture capabilities into clear narratives covering data privacy, model governance, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Partner with Sales and Presales on strategic opportunities, RFPs, security questionnaires, technical differentiation, and competitive positioning.
• Capture regional customer and market feedback, influence product strategy and roadmap decisions, and coach sales engineers and account executives on technical storytelling.

Requirements

• 15+ years of senior technical leadership experience, including several years in customer-facing or field/pre-sales roles.
• Proven experience influencing C-level and senior technical audiences during complex enterprise sales cycles.
• Expertise in application security, including SAST, SCA, and DAST, as well as enterprise architecture, cloud/SaaS platforms, APIs, and integrations.
• Practical understanding of AI/ML for security, including anomaly detection, large language models, behavioral analytics, AI-assisted software development, and agentic workflows.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executive, technical, customer, partner, press, and analyst audiences, with demonstrated industry presence.
• Bilingual fluency in Japanese and English; bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• MBA or another advanced degree.

Culture & Benefits

• Customer-facing technical leadership role reporting to the VP of Sales Engineering with a dotted line to Product & Technology.
• Opportunity to influence application security strategy, responsible AI adoption, product roadmaps, and go-to-market priorities.
• Significant external representation through industry events, analyst and partner discussions, press, and thought leadership.