VP. Presales Technology

Why UKG:

At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That’s what we do.

We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you’ll get flexibility that’s real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters—and so do you.

The Vice President, Demo Environments is responsible for the strategy, delivery, and operations of enterprise demo environments that showcase the company's Human Resources, Payroll, and Workforce Management SaaS solutions. This leader ensures demo environments are reliable, current, scalable, and aligned with product innovation to support Sales and Solution Consulting.

Working closely with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing, the VP leads bringing the compelling customer scenarios provided by Product and Marketing to life in our demo environments, oversees environment lifecycle management, and drives automation and operational excellence. This role transforms demo environments into a strategic capability that accelerates revenue, enhances customer engagement, and highlights the value of the company's solutions.

• Develop and execute the enterprise vision and multi-year roadmap for demo environments across all HCM product lines.
• Establish demo environments as a strategic corporate capability that directly supports revenue growth, customer engagement, analyst relations, and executive briefings.
• Define organizational priorities, investment strategies, governance, and success metrics.
• Build and lead a high-performing global organization focused on innovation, operational excellence, and customer impact.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, accountability, and technical excellence.

• Define the architecture and lifecycle management of demo environments spanning:
  • Human Resources
  • Payroll
  • Workforce Management
  • Talent Management
  • Recruiting
  • Learning
  • Benefits
  • Analytics
  • AI capabilities
  • Platform services
• Ensure environments accurately represent current product functionality, future innovations, integrations, and customer use cases.
• Drive standardization while enabling regional, industry, and customer-specific flexibility.

• Lead teams responsible for:
  • Environment provisioning
  • Data management
  • Refresh automation
  • Configuration management
  • Release readiness
  • Environment monitoring
  • Performance optimization
  • Availability and reliability
• Establish service levels and operational excellence practices to ensure high availability and rapid issue resolution.
• Implement automation to reduce manual effort and improve scalability.

• Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering to align demo environments with product release cycles.
• Ensure rapid adoption of new features into demo environments.
• Influence product design to improve demonstrability and customer storytelling.
• Participate in release planning and launch readiness activities.

• Collaborate with Sales Leadership and Solution Consulting to understand evolving demonstration needs.
• Deliver standardized, high-quality demo experiences that support:
  • Enterprise sales
  • Strategic pursuits
  • Executive demonstrations
  • Industry events
  • Customer conferences
  • Analyst briefings
• Enable rapid creation of customer-specific demonstration environments for strategic opportunities.

• Define enterprise standards for demo data strategy.
• Oversee creation of realistic customer personas, business scenarios, and industry-specific datasets.
• Ensure demonstrations reflect authentic business workflows and measurable customer outcomes.
• Partner with Marketing and Industry teams to build demos aligned to their use cases to differentiated customer narratives.

• Drive investment in:
  • Infrastructure automation
  • AI-assisted environment creation
  • Self-service provisioning
  • Demo orchestration
  • Environment health monitoring
  • Data generation automation
  • Release validation
• Continuously improve operational efficiency through Dev Ops and platform engineering practices.

• Establish governance for demo…