Director, Information Technology

Authentic Brands Group • New York City, NY

15h

About The Position

The IT Director is responsible for the overall planning, organizing, and execution of IT infrastructure and support functions globally for Authentic Brands Group. This includes directing all IT infrastructure and support operations to meet company and internal customer requirements as well as the support and maintenance of existing infrastructure and the development of new technical solutions. The IT Director will set the strategy for how infrastructure technology needs to be utilized globally in addition to being operationally focused. This position is expected to manage multiple projects simultaneously with limited resources and budgets to maximize performance and contribution.

Requirements

• At least 8 – 10 years of professional experience in organization management and global project management.
• Bachelor's degree in information technology, information systems, computer science or related field (graduate degree a plus).
• Experience with global scale IT infrastructure project management.
• Stakeholder management.
• Strong collaboration and cross-functional communication skills.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Strong technical ability including report creation.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and effectively prioritize.
• Proven ability to lead company-wide projects.
• Customer centric.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience implementing and maintaining IT infrastructure required.
• Experience working for a global company preferred.
• Passion for current and emerging trends in infrastructure technology.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate degree a plus

Responsibilities

• Overseeing all IT infrastructure (network and systems), operations, projects, and ongoing user support.
• Ensuring AI capabilities are thoughtfully integrated into every initiative—enhancing automation, decision-making, and user productivity.
• Identifying practical use cases, governing responsible adoption, and partnering with stakeholders to operationalize AI in ways that deliver measurable business value.
• IT infrastructure strategy, digital transformation, systems maintenance.
• Organization development and management, budget management, people development and management.
• Deep understanding of the fashion apparel industry and operation.
• Global organization alignment.
• Systems maintenance.
• Day to day systems support.
• Video Conferencing / room system support.
• Audio Visual system support including digital signage.
• Analyzes complex business needs presented by the user community and/or clients and recommends technical solutions.
• Ensures the consistency and maintainability of existing infrastructure by creating, maintaining, and enforcing standards/procedures for implementing technical solutions.
• Keeps abreast of new technology relevant to the company's security and infrastructure.
• Responds to the needs of a 24/7 operation, as needed.
• Responsible for data backups. Specifically, the regular occurrence, integrity, and periodic test restores of the backups to make sure data can be recovered successfully.
• Directs and prioritizes the workload of IT Infrastructure and support teams.
• Participates in all hardware and software evaluations and maintains vendor contracts.

Benefits

• Equal-opportunity employer
• Value and embrace the diversity and inclusion of all Team Members
• Do not discriminate on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, national origin, disability, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director