Vp, Business Technology

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and day-to-day operations for Genius Sports' core business systems, including Salesforce, Atlassian (Jira and Confluence), Zendesk, and Microsoft 365
• Define the integration architecture between business systems and enterprise platforms, ensuring data flows cleanly between tools without creating operational debt
• Manage vendor relationships in close partnership with Strategic Sourcing
• Own the Workday integration layer, working with HR and Finance system owners to ensure data integrity and operational reliability across connected platforms. Position the team as a trusted integration partner as broader Workday ownership evolves
• Architect and build the internal automation platform that will underpin how Genius Sports automates workflows, integrates systems, and delivers self-service capabilities across the business. This is not a buy-only function: you will be building
• Own the IaC and DevOps practices for the Business Technology estate, using Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code standards to ensure platform environments are version-controlled, auditable, and scalable
• Lead the design and deployment of agentic automation workflows, including integrations built on MCP Servers, AWS Bedrock, Zapier, and API-layer connectors that reduce manual process overhead across business functions
• Partner with Engineering and Data teams to ensure the internal platform is built to the same standards as product engineering: proper source control, code review, deployment pipelines, and documentation
• Drive the team's evolution from reactive IT support to proactive platform engineering, embedding engineering culture, practices, and accountability into how the function operates
• Own the strategy and governance for enterprise AI and productivity tools, including Claude, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot, ensuring deployment aligns with the company's AI governance framework
• Work with the CIO and functional leads to evaluate, pilot, and scale AI tools that deliver measurable productivity gains across the business
• Ensure tooling decisions follow the principle of right tool for the right job, with clear boundaries between governed stack platforms and generative AI use cases
• Track adoption, usage, and ROI across the AI and productivity portfolio, providing regular reporting to ETS leadership
• Own the operational health and strategic direction of Slack and Microsoft 365 (including Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive), ensuring these platforms are performant, well-governed, and fit for a hybrid, global workforce
• Partner with IT and Security to enforce appropriate data controls, retention policies, and access governance across collaboration tools
• Drive adoption and best-practice usage of collaboration platforms, working with internal communications and people teams where relevant
• Own the end-user compute function: laptops, desktops, mobile devices, and the service desk experience that supports Genius Sports employees globally
• Maintain accountability for office networks, on-site infrastructure, and the reliability of workplace technology across Genius Sports locations
• Ensure Active Directory and identity and access management (IAM) platforms are well-governed, current, and aligned to security policy, working closely with Cybersecurity on access controls and lifecycle management
• Set the bar for device management standards, endpoint configuration, and IT onboarding and offboarding processes, ensuring consistency and security across the estate
• Build and lead a high-performing team of business systems, platform, tooling, and IT operations specialists, setting clear goals, developing capability, and holding the bar on quality
• Create a team culture that balances operational reliability with a forward-looking mindset, ensuring the team is equally trusted to keep the lights on and to drive change
• Partner closely with Data and Analytics and Cybersecurity to deliver joined-up technology outcomes for the business
• Contribute to the ETS transformation roadmap, with particular ownership of rationalizing the tool estate, building the internal automation platform, and embedding engineering-grade practices into how the Business Technology team delivers
• Lead the evaluation and selection of new tools and platforms, and where building is the right answer, own the architecture and delivery. Bring a commercially rigorous and technically grounded approach to build vs buy decisions, with the engineering credibility to execute either path
• Provide ExCo-ready reporting on portfolio health, investment priorities, and risk across the business systems and productivity estate
• Ensure business systems and productivity platforms meet audit, compliance, and data protection requirements, including SOX-relevant controls where applicable
• Maintain clear documentation of system ownership, integration dependencies, and change management processes across the portfolio
• Contribute to the ETS risk register, ensuring visibility of platform risks and remediation timelines at the right governance levels

• Proven experience leading an enterprise technology or business systems function in a fast-moving, commercially driven organization, with direct accountability for both strategic platforms and operational IT delivery. You have an engineering background and have built things, not just managed vendors
• Deep familiarity with the tools in scope: Salesforce, Atlassian, Zendesk, Microsoft 365, Slack, and AI productivity platforms. You do not need to have run all of them simultaneously, but you need to know how they fit together
• A track record of translating business requirements into technology decisions, and technology investments into measurable business outcomes
• Strong commercial instincts. You understand vendor dynamics, know how to negotiate, and do not let the portfolio sprawl
• Experience managing cross-functional stakeholders at senior level, including Finance, HR, Sales, and Operations leaders who have strong opinions about the tools they use
• Solid grounding in identity and access management, endpoint management, and IT operations governance, enough to set standards and hold a team accountable. Alongside this, hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms (AWS or Azure), and API-layer integration. You can work in code, review it, and build teams that ship it
• Clear, direct communicator who can present to ExCo and board audiences without jargon and with a sharp focus on business impact
• Hands-on experience deploying AI and automation tooling in production, including agentic workflows, MCP Servers, or API-integrated AI platforms. A grounded view of where generative AI adds measurable value in an enterprise context, and the governance instincts to deploy it responsibly
• Experience operating within a SOX-compliant or similarly governed environment is an advantage

Experience operating within a SOX-compliant or similarly governed environment is an advantage

• competitive salary and range of benefits
• support employee wellbeing and help you grow your skills, experience and career