VP, Tech & Innovation

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The Vice President, Technology & Innovation will lead the company’s technology and innovation agenda, helping the enterprise use technology to improve personal productivity, create new capabilities, and solve important business problems. This leader will establish a practical innovation engine that combines technology scouting, rapid experimentation, platform and data-product enablement, AI adoption, and disciplined value realization. The VP will help the organization move beyond isolated pilots by creating reusable capabilities and clear pathways for scaling what works.

The successful candidate will be equally comfortable discussing a multi-year technology vision with senior leaders, working with users to understand a workflow, evaluating an emerging technology, shaping a proof of concept, and establishing the operating mechanisms required to scale a trusted capability.

Define and communicate an enterprise technology and innovation strategy aligned to business priorities and employee needs. Translate technology trends, emerging capabilities, and external signals into a focused portfolio of opportunities. Establish clear investment choices, stage gates, decision rights, and portfolio review mechanisms. Balance near-term productivity opportunities with longer-term capabilities that can differentiate the enterprise.

Identify and prioritize opportunities where AI, automation, analytics, and digital tools can improve employee productivity and decision quality. Make approved capabilities easy to discover, access, use, and support. Partner with functions and business units to embed technology into real workflows rather than treating adoption as a post-launch activity. Support responsible experimentation and practical AI literacy across the enterprise.

Build and scale secure, reliable, and reusable platforms for AI, analytics, automation, and emerging technology. Establish reference architectures, reusable components, APIs, data products, and patterns that reduce duplication and technical fragmentation. Partner with data governance and domain owners to ensure data products are trusted, documented, governed, and sustainable. Integrate new capabilities appropriately with enterprise applications, ERP, connected products, edge environments, and other technology foundations.

Establish a technology radar and a disciplined pipeline for evaluating emerging technologies, startups, research, and ecosystem opportunities. Lead proofs of value, proofs of technology, and proofs of concept that test user value, technical feasibility, risk, economics, and scalability. Create a safe experimentation environment with proportionate controls that do not impose production-level friction on low-risk…