Chief digital information officer; CDIO

Department:
Information Systems

Location:

Remote

Chief digital information officer (CDIO)

The American Physical Society (APS) is a nonprofit membership organization devoted to advancing and diffusing the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals and scientific meetings, as well as its education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities. APS represents 50,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and throughout the world.

The chief digital information officer (CDIO) provides executive leadership for APS's enterprise technology, digital strategy, cybersecurity, data, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation initiatives. The CDIO partners closely with other executive leadership to leverage technology as a strategic enabler of APS's mission, creating exceptional digital experiences for members, authors, reviewers, volunteers, staff, and the broader physics community.

The CDIO is responsible not only for delivering secure and reliable technology operations, but also for driving innovation, modernizing business capabilities, improving organizational effectiveness, enhancing customer satisfaction, and ensuring APS fully realizes the value of emerging technologies. This leader develops enterprise digital strategy that aligns technology investments with APS's strategic priorities, including publications, meetings, membership, advocacy, education, and operational excellence for internal and external stakeholders.

• Develop and execute APS's enterprise digital strategy aligned with organizational priorities.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the CEO and senior leadership team (SLT) on technology, AI, data, cybersecurity, data privacy, and digital innovation.
• Translate business strategy into a multi-year digital roadmap with measurable outcomes.
• Ensure technology investments directly support organizational effectiveness and drive customer value.
• Establish and lead an enterprise technology governance model with clear decision rights, accountability, and consistent processes for proposing, evaluating, prioritizing, approving, and overseeing technology work.
• Maintain a transparent enterprise technology portfolio and roadmap. Document key decisions, assumptions, ownership, resources, expected outcomes, and delivery status.

• Lead enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives that improve employee and customer experiences.
• Modernize business processes through automation, workflow redesign, and connected digital platforms.
• Support creation of a technology product owner model that meets business needs across APS.
• Champion user-centered design across internal and external digital experiences.

• Guide APS's enterprise AI strategy and maintain a governance framework.
• Identify opportunities to responsibly leverage AI to deliver value across the organization.
• Ensure policies for responsible AI use, privacy, and ethical implementation.
• Establish an enterprise AI context that creates sufficient guardrails to safeguard data and provides a rich information ecosystem for AI usage.
• Monitor emerging technologies and recommend innovations that advance APS's mission.

• Provide leadership for infrastructure, applications, cloud services, service management, and enterprise architecture.
• Ensure highly reliable, secure, scalable technology operations consistent with our remote-first environment.
• Oversee enterprise technology standards and technology lifecycle planning.
• Direct technology investment and capital planning.
• Lead staff training initiatives related to information technology.

• Lead enterprise cybersecurity strategy and function as the chief information security officer.
• Oversee information security, disaster recovery, business technology continuity, identity management, privacy and related cyber compliance.
• Ensure incident response management and processes to provide timely responses with documented root causes, response timelines, exposures, and remediations.
• Oversee information security policy and chair the Information Security Governance Committee.
• Establish and lead an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity testing program. Oversee regular tabletop exercises and technical recovery tests to validate plans, critical dependencies, roles, and recovery…