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