Key Responsibilities:
IT Strategy & Leadership
- Develop and execute a comprehensive IT roadmap aligned with company growth objectives.
- Build and lead a high-performing IT team across support, infrastructure, systems, security and AI.
- Establish IT governance, policies, service standards, and best practices across the organization.
- Advise executive leadership on technology priorities, investments, risks, and tradeoffs.
Infrastructure & Systems
- Oversee all company hardware, software, networks, cloud environments, identity and access systems, and collaboration tools.
- Evaluate, select, implement, and optimize enterprise systems, including ERP, CRM, e-commerce, financial, supply chain, HR, and related platforms and integrations.
- Create disciplined processes for software selection, licensing, configuration, integration, user access, lifecycle management, and vendor accountability.
- Manage technology vendors, managed-service providers, consultants, and other external partners.
Cybersecurity & Risk Management
- Design and implement a comprehensive cybersecurity program appropriate for a rapidly growing company.
- Establish security policies, controls, monitoring, employee training, incident response, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity practices.
- Protect company, employee, customer, and partner data across all systems and environments.
Data & Analytics Enablement
- Build and maintain a centralized, reliable data architecture that creates a consistent source of truth.
- Improve data quality, ownership, governance, definitions, access, and integration across systems.
- Partner with business leaders and any future strategy or analytics organization as ownership of customer analytics and advanced analysis evolves.
AI & Automation
- Develop a practical enterprise AI roadmap focused on measurable improvements in productivity, decision quality, customer experience, and operating leverage.
- Identify, prioritize, and implement AI and automation opportunities across functions.
- Establish standards for responsible, secure, and effective use of AI tools and company data.
IT Operations & Support
- Oversee IT support operations and elevate the current help desk into a scalable, service-oriented capability.
- Establish clear service levels, ticketing, escalation, onboarding, offboarding, device management, documentation, and end-user training processes.
- Balance strategic transformation with hands-on ownership of day-to-day technology needs.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in information technology, including meaningful leadership
- responsibility.
- Bachelor’s degree from a reputable university required; degree in Computer Science, Information Systems,
- Engineering, Business, or a related field preferred.
- Proven experience modernizing legacy systems and scaling technology infrastructure in a high-growth
- environment.
- Strong working knowledge across enterprise applications, infrastructure, cloud environments, cybersecurity, integrations, data architecture, and IT operations.
- Experience building, developing, and managing a small, high-impact technology team.
- Strong business acumen and the ability to connect technology decisions to operational and financial
- outcomes.
- Executive-level communication skills with the ability to explain complex technology issues clearly and influence senior leaders.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience in consumer products, e-commerce, retail, omnichannel commerce, or another fast-scaling operating environment.
- Hands-on experience leading ERP, CRM, data platform, identity, cybersecurity, or major systems-integration initiatives.
- Experience creating an enterprise AI, automation, or digital-transformation roadmap.
- Builder with the ability to create a modern IT function from an early-stage foundation.
Work Environment and Physical Requirements:
- This position involves working in a traditional work environment, 5 days a week
- Occasional lifting and carrying of up to 30lbs
Why Join Turtlebox?:
- Be part of a fast-growing premium outdoor audio brand with strong momentum in wholesale and D2C.
- Coworkers who are as passionate about music and adventure as you are.
- Thrive in an entrepreneurial culture with room for creativity, ownership, and innovation.
- Complimentary lunch every day.
- 12 annual holidays plus Paid Time Off.
- Comprehensive health benefits & 401k matching.
- Awesome discounts to complete your Turtlebox collection!
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