Director, GIS

Position Summary

IQ Fiber is seeking a Director, GIS responsible for owning the company's geospatial strategy, function, and team across its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) expansion markets. This role establishes GIS as an enterprise decision-support capability that drives disciplined capital deployment, accelerates design-to-build cycles, and supports operational excellence across Engineering, Construction, Commercial, and Network Operations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

- Own and execute IQ Fiber's enterprise GIS strategy and roadmap, aligning geospatial capabilities with capital deployment, market selection, and network expansion priorities. - Build, lead, and develop the GIS team, setting performance standards, growing technical capabilities, and scaling the function to support multi-market growth. - Partner with senior leadership and cross-functional teams across Engineering, Construction, Commercial, and Network Operations to position GIS as a core decision-support capability. - Establish and govern enterprise GIS data standards, including data governance frameworks, QA/QC plans, metadata, version control, and data-integrity standards across all spatial datasets. - Direct the development of advanced spatial models for market selection, capital allocation, and density and demographic forecasting, including near-net and on-net commercial passings analysis and cost-per-passing optimization. - Drive the design and maintenance of ETL workflows that ingest, validate, and standardize spatial data, leveraging ArcGIS Notebooks, Arcade scripting, and enterprise geodatabases to advance automation and scalability. - Lead complex, multi-market GIS initiatives from feasibility through construction, defining technical approaches, delivery schedules, and quality standards. - Ensure GIS integrates effectively with construction management, PMO, and financial tracking platforms to support end-to-end visibility from feasibility through construction. - Oversee the production of automated dashboards, spatial reports, and polished cartographic products that translate geospatial analysis into actionable business insights for senior leadership. - Manage GIS technology investments, vendor relationships, and tooling decisions to ensure the platform scales cost-effectively with the business. - Develop and monitor GIS performance metrics that demonstrate impact on capital efficiency, serviceability accuracy, and design-to-build cycle time.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Geography, GIS, Engineering, Planning, Natural Sciences, or a related field, or equivalent experience. - 8+ years of progressive GIS experience, including direct team or function leadership. - Demonstrated experience leading GIS teams and managing complex, multi-stakeholder programs, including scope definition, scheduling, QA, and stakeholder coordination. - Advanced proficiency in ArcGIS Pro/Desktop, ArcGIS Server/Enterprise, ArcGIS Online, and related extensions. - Experience designing and maintaining ETL workflows and enterprise geodatabases; FME preferred. - Experience in telecommunications, utilities, broadband, or infrastructure development preferred. - Experience supporting high-growth, multi-state expansion environments preferred. - Esri certification, GISP, AICP, PE, or related professional certification a plus. - Proficiency with Microsoft 365. - Ability to set geospatial strategy and translate complex spatial analysis into clear insights and recommendations for senior leadership. - Ability to lead and develop technical teams in a fast-paced, multi-market environment. - Ability to collaborate across Engineering, Construction, Commercial, and Network Operations to drive cross-functional adoption. - Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with sound judgment and integrity.