Director, Information Technology – IT

Job Description:

• Oversee daily IT operations and own the company's application landscape, ensuring a well-governed, rationalized SaaS portfolio with SSO and SCIM provisioning wherever possible
• Define and execute a roadmap to accelerate IT maturity by deploying AI-assisted tools to automate core lifecycle workflows—specifically access provisioning, hardware management, and employee transitions
• Identify and champion technology-enabled opportunities that enhance operational efficiency, innovation, scalability and reduce toil via automation
• Provide leadership and direction to IT Systems Admins and Help Desk staff
• Develop and own the corporate IT budget, evaluate vendor contracts, and procure software/hardware solutions
• Partner with Info Sec to operationalize incident response and vulnerability management
• Support a distributed workforce using GSuite, Okta, Claude, and Replit across a fleet of primarily Mac Book Air and Windows 11 hardware

• 7+ years of IT experience, including 4+ years in IT leadership roles, ideally within fast-growing technology companies
• Willing to roll up their sleeves for technical execution while simultaneously building long-term strategy
• You bring an “AI mentality” to IT, with a proven track record of leveraging automation and AI to reduce operational toil, simplify processes, and systematically eliminate low-value work through thoughtful prioritization and backlog management
• Strong capability and comfort managing, integrating, supporting, and optimizing a broad portfolio of business applications, with demonstrated skill in strategically evaluating when to build, buy, or outsource solutions and effectively managing vendors and external partners
• Experience running IT operations for a remote-first, international workforce
• Strong command of identity and access management (SSO, SCIM, MFA) and experience contributing to compliance frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA
• Ability to earn trust and collaborate with both executives and individual contributors.

• Competitive salary and benefits and equity participation
• The chance to work with a passionate team on solving one of the largest challenges globally
• A dynamic, flexible and fun start-up work environment with a highly talented team