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Director, Information Technology

Authentic Brands Group · New York, NY · 1 wk ago
On-siteInformation Technology$175k–$200k/yrFull-time

What You’ll Do

  • Oversee all IT infrastructure (network and systems), operations, projects, and ongoing user support.
  • Ensure AI capabilities are thoughtfully integrated into every initiative—enhancing automation, decision-making, and user productivity. Identify practical use cases, govern responsible adoption, and partner with stakeholders to operationalize AI in ways that deliver measurable business value.
  • IT infrastructure strategy, digital transformation, systems maintenance.
  • Organization development and management, budget management, people development and management.
  • Deep understanding of the fashion apparel industry and operation
  • Global organization alignment.
  • Systems maintenance
  • Day to day systems support
  • Video Conferencing / room system support
  • Audio Visual system support including digital signage
  • Analyzes complex business needs presented by the user community and/or clients and recommends technical solutions.
  • Ensures the consistency and maintainability of existing infrastructure by creating, maintaining, and enforcing standards/procedures for implementing technical solutions.
  • Keeps abreast of new technology relevant to the company's security and infrastructure.
  • Responds to the needs of a 24/7 operation, as needed.
  • Responsible for data backups. Specifically, the regular occurrence, integrity, and periodic test restores of the backups to make sure data can be recovered successfully.
  • Directs and prioritizes the workload of IT Infrastructure and support teams
  • Participates in all hardware and software evaluations and maintains vendor contracts.

Must Haves

  • At least 8 – 10 years of professional experience in organization management and global project management
  • Bachelor's degree in information technology, information systems, computer science or related field (graduate degree a plus)
  • Experience with global scale IT infrastructure project management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Strong collaboration and cross-functional communication skills
  • Excellent written and oral communications skills
  • Strong technical ability including report creation
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and effectively prioritize
  • Proven ability to lead company-wide projects
  • Customer centric
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience implementing and maintaining IT infrastructure required
  • Experience working for a global company preferred
  • Passion for current and emerging trends in infrastructure technology

Primary Location Salary Range

$175,000 - $200,000

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