Director, Corporate IT

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Minnesota.

📋 Description

• Formulate and implement the strategy and roadmap for corporate IT, including integrations, automation, and AI initiatives.

• Set enterprise standards for business applications.

• Provide a secure, dependable, and seamless technology experience for employees.

• Transition IT from a reactive support model to a proactive, automated service delivery approach.

• Collaborate with company leaders to enhance business processes, reduce manual tasks, and uncover opportunities for automation and AI.

• Oversee the assessment, implementation, governance, and adoption of AI-driven tools, agents, self-service features, and workflow automation.

• Ensure that AI and automation solutions incorporate security, privacy, data access, human oversight, monitoring, and accountability.

• Manage core IT platforms and services, which include identity and access management, Google Workspace, endpoint management, networking, collaboration tools, IT service management, and employee lifecycle processes.

• Govern enterprise applications spanning HR, finance, accounting, procurement, and other internal corporate systems.

• Collaborate with Security to deploy and maintain security technologies, enforce access controls, conduct access reviews, support audits, and ensure secure onboarding and offboarding.

• Oversee the budget for IT and enterprise applications, including vendors, licensing, service levels, and performance metrics.

• Lead a multidisciplinary team focused on corporate technology.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of progressive experience in corporate IT and enterprise technology.

• A minimum of five years in leading teams and managing cross-functional technology programs.

• Experience in overseeing identity and access management, endpoint management, collaboration platforms, networking, IT service management, and employee lifecycle processes.

• Proven track record in deploying AI agents, copilots, intelligent automation, self-service capabilities, or AI-enabled support within governed production settings.

• Proficiency in utilizing low-code, no-code, integration, or workflow technologies to automate processes across various systems and business functions.

• Experience in governing HRIS, ERP, finance and accounting systems, procurement platforms, and business workflow tools.

• Background in leading enterprise application implementations, migrations, integrations, or optimization projects.

• Strong understanding of APIs, workflow orchestration, data flows, access controls, and application lifecycle management.

• Experience collaborating with Security on security technologies, access controls, access reviews, audits, onboarding, and offboarding processes.

• Experience managing IT and enterprise application budgets, vendors, contracts, licensing, service levels, and delivery partners.

• Strong business acumen with the ability to communicate technology strategy, value, risks, and trade-offs to executive audiences.

• Proven success in leading organizational change and fostering the adoption of new tools and methodologies.

• Must possess authorization to work in the United States.

• Must not require employer visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Coverage for alternative medicine.

• Flexible paid time off (PTO).

• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

• Paid holidays.

• 401(k) program.

• Transportation perks.

• Education reimbursement.

• Two days of paid paw-ternity leave.

• Equity options.

• Bonus opportunities.