Head of Technology [HT-1071444]

VisionSpark • Owensboro, KY

7d

About The Position

Asmark Institute is seeking a humbly confident, strategic, and practical technology leader to guide its Technology function and help shape the organization’s technical direction. The role is responsible for building trust and collaboration across technical and business teams, balancing long-term vision with current priorities, and making clear, business-minded technology decisions.

The Head of Technology will lead the modernization, security, and scaling of the technology behind Asmark’s products and operations. This includes owning the technology roadmap, strengthening systems and engineering practices, managing technical risks, developing technical team members, and evaluating emerging technologies such as AI with practical judgment. The position may be based onsite in Owensboro, Kentucky, hybrid, or remote for the right candidate. Relocation assistance may be available for someone interested in joining the team in Owensboro.

Requirements

• 3–5+ years of senior Technology or Engineering leadership experience, including ownership of a technical function and direct partnership with senior leadership.
• Direct people leadership experience with software development or engineering teams, with a record of creating clarity, accountability, and stability.
• Experience leading software engineering or application development teams through architecture, modernization, technical risk, and delivery decisions.
• Experience building and scaling a Technology or Engineering function through clearer structure, standards, priorities, accountability, and measurable execution.
• Strong business and technology judgment, including experience advising leaders on technical risk, investment priorities, scalability, security, and emerging technology.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading and scaling technical teams of roughly 5–25+ people, including employees, contractors, vendors, or technical leads.
• Leadership experience in a small to mid-sized organization.
• Experience in a regulated or operationally complex environment.
• Experience working with LMS, SaaS, or compliance-driven software platforms.
• Experience with AWS, JavaScript, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Next.js, CI/CD, or automated testing.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent technical experience.
• Experience in AgTech, agricultural retail, safety, risk management, compliance, training, or related industries.
• Familiarity with EOS or similar operating systems.
• Advanced technical degree, AWS certification, Scrum certification, or similar technical credentials.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a strong Technology function with clear standards, ownership, and accountability across engineering and technical teams.
• Own the technology roadmap so technical priorities support business goals, product direction, security, and long-term scalability.
• Lead modernization efforts that strengthen systems, data, infrastructure, and development practices.
• Create technical discipline that helps engineering work move forward with quality, predictability, and clear priorities.
• Strengthen partnerships between Technology, Product, Operations, and leadership so business priorities become scalable technical solutions.
• Reduce cybersecurity, data, system reliability, and technical risks before they become business problems.
• Build practical technology rhythms that make capacity, system health, blockers, priorities, risks, and decisions visible to leadership.
• Lead and develop technical team members into strong owners, problem solvers, and future leaders.
• Use clear measures of technology success to connect system performance, engineering capacity, security, and business impact.
• Evaluate AI, automation, and emerging technologies with practical judgment, aligning tool choices with business needs.
• Make business-minded technology decisions about vendors, resources, architecture, capacity, return on investment, and execution.
• Identify technical debt, capacity issues, and execution risks early and create practical solutions to keep technology work moving.

Benefits

• Wellness Allowance
• 401(k) with match
• PTO
• Annual Company Trip
• 10-Year Employee Trip
• Potential bonus opportunity
• Relocation assistance may be available for a candidate interested in joining the team in Owensboro.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed