VP, Tech & Innovation
About The Position
The Vice President, Technology & Innovation will lead the company’s technology and innovation agenda, helping the enterprise use technology to improve personal productivity, create new capabilities, and solve important business problems. This leader will establish a practical innovation engine combining technology scouting, rapid experimentation, platform and data-product enablement, AI adoption, and disciplined value realization. The VP will help the organization move beyond isolated pilots by creating reusable capabilities and clear pathways for scaling successful solutions. The role calls for a leader who can discuss a multi-year technology vision with senior leaders, work with users to understand workflows, evaluate emerging technology, shape proofs of concept, and establish the operating mechanisms needed to scale trusted capabilities. The position is onsite Monday through Thursday, with the option to choose a work location on Fridays according to work requirements.
Responsibilities
- Define and communicate an enterprise technology and innovation strategy aligned with business priorities and employee needs.
- Translate technology trends, emerging capabilities, and external signals into a focused portfolio of opportunities.
- Establish investment choices, stage gates, decision rights, and portfolio review mechanisms.
- Balance near-term productivity opportunities with longer-term capabilities that can differentiate the enterprise.
- Identify and prioritize opportunities for AI, automation, analytics, and digital tools to improve employee productivity and decision quality.
- Make approved capabilities easy to discover, access, use, and support.
- Partner with functions and business units to embed technology into real workflows and support responsible experimentation and practical AI literacy.
- Build and scale secure, reliable, reusable platforms for AI, analytics, automation, and emerging technology.
- Establish reference architectures, reusable components, APIs, data products, and patterns that reduce duplication and technical fragmentation.
- Partner with data governance and domain owners to ensure data products are trusted, documented, governed, and sustainable.
- Integrate new capabilities appropriately with enterprise applications, ERP, connected products, edge environments, and other technology foundations.
- Establish a technology radar and disciplined pipeline for evaluating emerging technologies, startups, research, and ecosystem opportunities.
- Lead proofs of value, proofs of technology, and proofs of concept to test user value, technical feasibility, risk, economics, and scalability.
- Create a safe experimentation environment with controls proportionate to risk, and use clear criteria to pivot, stop, transition, or scale experiments.
- Ensure material experiments have a problem statement, sponsor, value hypothesis, owner, and next-step decision.
- Enable functions, business units, analytics, product, technology, and other teams through shared platforms, reusable patterns, communities of practice, and targeted expertise.
- Build partnerships across IT and the business while maintaining clear accountability for decisions and outcomes.
- Establish mechanisms for local innovation within enterprise standards and guardrails.
- Build an ecosystem of internal talent, external partners, universities, startups, and technology providers.
- Embed security, privacy, architecture, data quality, responsible AI, compliance, and cost management into the capability lifecycle.
- Partner with data governance to clarify data-product ownership, quality expectations, metadata, access, lineage, and lifecycle requirements.
- Establish adoption, usage, benefit, and risk measures before scaling material capabilities; review realized benefits and redirect resources when needed.
- Communicate progress, tradeoffs, risks, and value clearly to executive leadership.
- Build and lead a high-performing team able to scout, design, prototype, productize, and scale technology-enabled capabilities.
- Foster curiosity, experimentation, learning, accountability, and responsible risk-taking.
- Develop leaders and practitioners through communities of practice, coaching, and exposure to real business problems.
- Model collaboration, transparency, inclusion, and disciplined follow-through.
Benefits
- Health insurance and holistic wellness programs with incentives, effective from day one for the employee and family.
- Family-building benefits, including fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
- Up to 15 vacation days, paid holidays, sick leave, and additional options supporting volunteer and parental leave.
- 401(k) match.
- Educational and training opportunities through company programs.
- Tuition assistance and student debt support.
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
