Head of IT (IT Director)

Job Title: Head of IT (IT Director)
Job ID: 90741
Location: Burnank, California


What you will be doing:
Technology Strategy and Roadmap

• Develop and own a pragmatic technology roadmap aligned with business priorities, growth plans and acquisition strategy.

• Prioritize investments based on business value, risk and organizational readiness.

• Advise executive leadership on technology priorities, investment requirements and key decisions.

Establish and Operate the IT Function

• Build the core IT operating model, including appropriate governance, policies, user support and service management.

• Establish the right balance between internal capability and outsourced support, with clear ownership, service expectations and accountability.

• Develop the IT organization as business requirements and complexity increase.

Enterprise Applications and Technology Transformation

• Own the lifecycle of major business applications, from requirements and vendor selection through implementation, adoption and optimization.

• Partner with Finance, Operations, HR and commercial teams to ensure technology supports business processes and growth.

• Simplify the application landscape where appropriate, reducing unnecessary duplication and improving integration while retaining fit-for-purpose solutions.

Cybersecurity, Risk and Resilience

• Establish and maintain a proportionate cybersecurity and technology risk program covering identity and access, endpoints, monitoring, data protection, backup and recovery, and incident response.

• Maintain accountability for technology risk while leveraging specialist security providers where appropriate.

• Ensure material risks, control gaps and remediation priorities are understood and visible to leadership.

Data and Reporting

• Establish a scalable reporting and data capability that provides trusted, consistent management information across the organization.

• Improve data governance and reduce unnecessary manual consolidation and reconciliation.

• Ensure the data and reporting architecture can support additional businesses, systems and increasing reporting requirements.

 Acquisitions and Integration

• Develop a repeatable approach to onboarding and integration for future acquisitions.

• Establish practical integration standards and playbooks covering core technology, security, support, data and applications.

• Determine what should be standardized immediately versus transitioned over time based on business value, risk and operational requirements.

Technology Investment and Vendors

• Own the IT budget and technology investment plan, evaluating expenditure based on business value, scalability, risk and total cost of ownership.

• Select and manage technology vendors and service providers, establishing clear commercial terms, service levels and performance expectations.

• Maintain clear visibility over technology costs, contractual commitments and future investment requirements.

What you must have:
The successful candidate will likely have 8-12+ years of progressive technology experience, including meaningful responsibility for an IT function or significant technology transformation within a growing small or mid-sized organization. Relevant experience should include several of the following:

• Building or materially professionalizing an IT function;

• Leading technology in a growing, changing or multi-entity organization;

• Operating with a lean resource supported by external technology partners;

• Leading enterprise application implementations, migrations or significant upgrades;

• Direct involvement in requirements, data migration, testing, cutover and user adoption;

• Establishing IT governance, cybersecurity and service management capabilities;

• Building reporting, analytics or data integration capabilities;

• Supporting acquisition integration or post-merger technology activities;

• Managing IT budgets, vendors and managed service providers; and

• Building an internal IT team as the business scales.

Salary/Rate Range: $200,000 - $225,000 Base (25% bonus component) 


Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. If you are selected to move forward in the process, we will contact you directly. If you do not hear from us, we encourage you to continue visiting our website for other roles that may be a good fit.


For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.com