Vice President, Strategic Initiatives & Technology Enablement

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$225,000 - $275,000

Job Reference

252335

Job Description

Vice President, Strategic Initiatives & Technology Enablement

Location: Remote (United States) with regular travel

A private equity-backed, multi-brand services platform is seeking a Vice President of Strategic Initiatives & Technology Enablement who will also serve as Chief of Staff to the CEO. The company has more than tripled its footprint through acquisition and now operates dozens of locally led brands across the country, each keeping its own identity and customer relationships. To support that growth, the business is moving to a two-region operating model backed by a central Continuous Improvement function, and leadership believes the next phase of value creation will be driven heavily by technology and AI.

This role carries two connected mandates, with time split roughly evenly between them. On the strategic side, you will report to the CEO and run the operating rhythm of the executive team. On the technology side, you will have a dotted line to the SVP of Continuous Improvement and lead technology enablement for one of the company's two regions, partnering closely with a regional technology counterpart who covers the other.

You will spend real time in the field learning how local teams use their systems, set the technology agenda for your region, and lead the projects that move it forward, working with the central technology and integration teams who handle hands‑on execution.

The ideal candidate is a business athlete who has spent their career close to technology change. You can sit with a team, map how work really gets done across a handful of tools, come back with a sharp point of view on what to fix first and what it is worth, and then lead the plan to get it done.

• Own the executive operating cadence, including weekly leadership meetings, monthly business reviews and quarterly planning
• Prepare board and investor materials and help shape the narrative for the executive team
• Act as the CEO's extension on cross-functional issues that lack a clear owner, and drive decisions to closure
• Lead executive communications and change management for organizational changes and company-wide initiatives
• Connect the dots across regions and functions to spot duplicated effort, downstream impacts and problems before they grow
• Set the technology agenda for your region with regional operating leadership and Continuous Improvement, deciding what gets prioritized, in what order and what it is worth
• Spend time inside the local brands with front‑line and support teams to understand how they use, and move between, their systems day to day
• Identify friction, manual workarounds and duplicate entry, and turn them into well‑defined use cases with a clear business case
• Shape requests rather than take orders: dig into the business problem behind each idea and shape the solution with the operators who raised it
• Drive technology diligence and integration planning for acquisitions in your region, working alongside the integration team
• Identify when systems need to change, build the plan with local teams and the central technology organization, and lead migrations and implementations through to launch
• Own the regional technology budget, partnering with your regional counterpart to capture scale efficiencies
• Lead AI and automation adoption in the field, including training and change management for non‑technical teams
• Own a clear one‑year and three‑year technology story for your region and use it to earn buy‑in from operators
• Lead or support third‑party vendor evaluations and selection

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