Fractional Head of Technology

Kinect Solar LLC•Anywhere, TX, TX

4d•Remote

About The Position

Kinect Solar is seeking a technology executive to turn technology into a competitive advantage, improve how the team works and serves customers, and support the company’s growth and enterprise value. During an initial 90-day engagement, the role will assess people, processes, systems, and AI opportunities, then begin targeted fixes. The position reports to the CFO and works closely with the CEO and operations leaders. It owns the technology plan, team direction, provider oversight, and results, while building solutions where useful and delegating implementation to internal staff and outside experts. The role will set technology priorities and determine whether to buy, adjust, connect, or build solutions based on business value and ongoing cost. It will work hands-on in NetSuite, HubSpot, and AI tools as needed, oversee providers using clear work plans and quality checks, and ensure staff can use and support delivered solutions. Provider financial ties must be disclosed. In the first 30 days, the role will align leadership on the technology plan, decision-making, staffing, budget, and success measures; review existing requirements and work; determine whether to improve or replace the CRM; put workflow pilots into daily use and measure their results; assess existing Kinect Intelligence work and the WHRFQ project; and complete a team skills and workload assessment with a costed staffing plan. By the 90-day scorecard, the role will begin agreed fixes and deliver tested improvements within approved scope. It will address customer-record sharing and duplicate prevention, establish record-ownership rules with sales leaders, train affected users, and report system use and data accuracy against agreed targets. It will define and demonstrate an approved first Kinect Intelligence release for warehouse quote requests, forecasting, and operations handoff; move selected RFQ steps from scattered emails and spreadsheets into a shared workflow; and establish tracking for CRM use, RFQ progress, and pricing handoffs. It will recommend the next stage of work, including costs, owners, and timing, and address customer access to project information and the systems, records, and support arrangements needed for a future buyer’s review and handover. Throughout the engagement, the role will lead weekly steering meetings with the board and key executives and maintain a scoreboard of results, spending, milestones, risks, and decisions needed, with actions and owners recorded and delays addressed early. The proposed commitment is approximately three days per week during the initial 90-day engagement. Fees and review checkpoints will be agreed, and any continuation will be agreed separately. The role is remote with occasional travel. After initial scoping, it will act within agreed budgets and decision limits without case-by-case approval.

Requirements

Experience as a Head of Technology or equivalent leader, with personal responsibility for improving business systems and delivering measurable results.
Proven results improving CRM use, connecting business systems, and reducing manual work with a lean team and limited budget.
Experience putting AI into daily work, measuring accuracy and time saved, protecting data, training staff, and helping people adapt.
Hands-on experience improving NetSuite, HubSpot, and AI tools, alongside executive responsibility for business systems and teams.
Ability to build when useful, assess completed work, and assign the right specialists without becoming the sole implementer.
Understanding of daily operations, forecasts, profit margins, and financial checks.
Ability to work effectively with finance, sales, and operations.
Sound technical judgment and clear communication with leaders.
Experience developing staff and managing outside specialists.

Nice To Haves

Experience in logistics, warehousing, distribution, supply chains, or solar.
Experience managing remote or Latin America-based specialists.
Experience preparing systems for a buyer’s review, handing systems to new owners, or combining systems after an acquisition.

Responsibilities

Serve as the technology executive accountable for priorities, team direction, providers, and delivery.
Assess people, processes, systems, and AI opportunities, and begin targeted improvements.
Own the overall technology plan and deliver results in coordination with the CFO, CEO, and operations leaders.
Work directly in NetSuite, HubSpot, and AI tools when useful to assess problems, test ideas, or deliver targeted fixes.
Delegate implementation and specialist work to internal staff and outside experts, and ensure staff can use and support the results.
Choose whether to buy, adjust, connect, or build solutions based on business value and ongoing cost.
Manage providers with work plans, assigned personnel, deadlines, quality checks, and support commitments; disclose financial ties to recommended providers.
Agree on technology priorities, decision rights, staffing, budget, and success measures, and review existing requirements and work before adding projects.
Determine whether to improve or replace the current CRM and define the budget, owners, and timeline.
Put workflow pilots into daily use, measure time spent and hours saved, check accuracy, collect staff feedback, and include human review where needed.
Review existing Kinect Intelligence work and progress on the WHRFQ project.
Assess team skills and workload, identify training, hiring, and outside-support needs, and present and begin an approved staffing plan.
Deliver tested improvements within approved scope, address customer-record sharing and duplicate prevention, establish record-ownership rules, train affected users, and report system use and data accuracy against targets.
Agree on the scope and delivery support for the first Kinect Intelligence release covering warehouse RFQs, forecasting, and operations handoff; define quality checks and demonstrate a working improvement to schedule.
Agree with business owners how CRM use, RFQ progress, and pricing handoffs will be tracked, and move selected RFQ steps into a shared workflow with clear owners and tracked exceptions.
Recommend the next stage of technology work, with costs, owners, and timing, and address systems, records, customer access, and support arrangements needed for a future buyer’s review and handover.
Lead weekly steering meetings with the board and key executives; maintain a scoreboard of results, spending, milestones, risks, and decisions; record actions and owners and address delays and issues early.