Vice President Digital Strategy Collaboration

Overview

The Vice President, Digital Strategy & Collaboration will serve as a senior leader responsible for convening stakeholders across the Farm Credit System to advance shared understanding, foster collaboration, and accelerate progress on digital priorities. This role is less about owning or dictating strategy, and more about creating the spaces, platforms, and conversations that enable Farm Credit System leaders to collectively explore opportunities, address challenges, and shape the future of digital innovation together.

The ideal candidate is a connector and convener who brings curiosity, humility, and influence to the role. They thrive on enabling others, asking the right questions, and ensuring that the collective wisdom of the Farm Credit System is surfaced and applied. Success in this role will be defined not by individual ownership of digital strategy, but by the leader’s ability to create the conditions for collaboration, foster meaningful insight exchange, and enable shared progress across the Farm Credit System.

FCCS provides a tremendous culture to its employees with a focus on work/life values. In addition to competitive pay and benefits, our Denver-based employees operate on a hybrid schedule, currently working remotely 3 days/week. The benefits and bonus structure are unique and a competitive advantage for FCCS making us a Great Place to Work certified organization.

In addition to an annual bonus opportunity and competitive benefits, the salary range for this position is $,000 annually.

• The VP will guide forums such as System
  
  X and other strategic gatherings, where technologists, strategists, and executives engage in candid dialogue, share best practices, and co-create solutions that strengthen the Farm Credit System’s collective impact.
• Convene and Connect:
  Bring together leaders, practitioners, and innovators across the Farm Credit System to engage in meaningful dialogue around digital transformation, emerging technologies, and collaborative opportunities.
• Facilitate Shared Learning:
  Curate and lead strategic events, forums, and working sessions (including System
  
  X) designed to accelerate digital knowledge-sharing and collaboration.
• Enable
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Foster a culture of openness, trust, and partnership by creating spaces where diverse perspectives can be exchanged and leveraged for collective progress.
• Surface Insights:
  Gather, organize, and share trends, best practices, and learnings from across the Farm Credit System to support decision-making and forward-looking strategy.
• Amplify Innovation:
  Showcase digital initiatives and investments happening across the Farm Credit System, helping to connect leaders to ideas and approaches that can be scaled or adapted.
• Bridge Perspectives:
  Serve as a trusted facilitator between executives, technology leaders, and operational teams, ensuring digital conversations stay connected to strategy and business priorities.
• Support Governance & Strategy Conversations:
  Partner with FCCS leadership to ensure digital topics are integrated into strategic conversations and aligned with organizational goals.

• Minimum of 15 years of progressive experience in strategy, digital transformation, innovation leadership or cross-sector facilitation – preferably within financial services, agriculture, or technology-driven organizations.
• Bachelor's degree in business administration or technology related field required, graduate degree preferred.
• The ability to travel up to 50% of the time, based on client need and request.
• Must be able to lift 20 pounds for room set up.
• Strong leadership skills, and proven ability to lead multiple projects.
• Demonstrated ability to convene and facilitate collaboration among diverse senior stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of digital transformation, emerging technology trends, and their strategic business applications.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.
• Experience designing and delivering high-impact forums, summits, or large-scale convenings.
• A collaborative, systems-level thinker who bridges perspectives and enables collective action.
• Proven consultative skills, serving as a…