Industry CTO - Travel, Transportation and Hospitality (ASEAN)

About the role

Salesforce is looking for an Industry CTO for the Travel, Transportation and Hospitality industry, focused on ASEAN. The role shapes Salesforce's industry technology vision, helps customers turn business ambition into measurable outcomes, and combines industry expertise, technical architecture experience and a founder's mindset. The person builds solutions, demos and prototypes, develops trusted C-level relationships with key customers and champions Salesforce's technology point of view.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and promote Salesforce's technology point of view through original perspectives, published content and executive presentations.
• Speak at industry events, forums, executive roundtables and customer presentations, turning insights into reusable industry assets and guidance.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with C-level leaders at key ASEAN customers, advising on investment, enterprise architecture and transformation.
• Partner with sales and solution engineering on major opportunities, business cases and executive engagement.
• Act as the link between ASEAN customers and Product Management, shaping product roadmaps and closing the feedback loop.
• Personally build industry solutions, demos and AI prototypes with technical teams.
• Monitor the competitive landscape and market dynamics to inform positioning and differentiation.

Required profile

• Strong understanding of industry business models, operating processes and regulatory considerations, with experience across diverse ASEAN markets.
• Track record of guiding large-scale industry-themed transformation and of building trusted C-level relationships that influence technology investment decisions.
• Hands-on passion for AI and data platforms, with a track record of building demos and prototypes.
• Deep practical knowledge of Salesforce technology, including architecture, data, integration and implementation details.
• Experience influencing product roadmaps, aligning partners and internal teams, and mentoring technical talent.
• Customer-focused, commercially minded, credible and collaborative, with a founder's mindset and ownership.
• Even better: Director-level experience or equivalent leadership scope, either in an industry customer organization or as a technology/solutions vendor.

Required skills

• Deep expertise in at least one relevant area of AI and data platforms
• Hands-on Salesforce expertise across relevant clouds and industry capabilities