Vice President, Technology & Digital Strategy

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Vice President, Technology & Digital Strategy based in the United States. This is a senior technology leadership role with broad responsibility across enterprise IT, digital operations, cybersecurity, data, AI, applications, and technology-enabled products. You will shape and execute a multi-year technology strategy that directly supports organizational growth, operational excellence, and mission impact. The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on oversight of critical platforms, vendors, budgets, security, and digital initiatives. You will lead a multidisciplinary team while building strong partnerships across executive, operational, fundraising, communications, and program functions. A major focus will be advancing responsible AI adoption, strengthening data and analytics capabilities, and evolving digital platforms for scale. This opportunity suits a builder who thrives in a distributed, rapidly evolving environment where technology can create meaningful social impact. The position reports to the Chief Financial & Administrative Officer and requires strong executive presence, business judgment, and cross-functional influence. Develop and execute a multi-year enterprise technology strategy and roadmap aligned with organizational priorities, growth plans, operational needs, and mission objectives. Serve as a strategic technology advisor to executive leadership, providing guidance on technology investments, emerging technologies, risks, governance, architecture, and innovation opportunities. Lead enterprise AI strategy, including identifying high-value use cases, establishing responsible-use standards and risk controls, evaluating tools, and driving implementation, adoption, training, and change management. Oversee IT and workplace technology operations for a distributed workforce, including managed service providers, help desk services, devices, Microsoft 365, identity and access management, collaboration platforms, onboarding, and application administration. Own cybersecurity, privacy-supporting controls, technology risk management, incident response, backups, disaster recovery, business continuity, and organizational resilience initiatives. Lead the strategy and governance of digital platforms, websites, fundraising and advocacy technologies, analytics capabilities, and associated vendor relationships. Oversee Salesforce and other enterprise applications, including roadmaps, security, permissions, integrations, data quality, reporting, releases, user support, automation, and adoption. Establish organization-wide data governance, reporting standards, stewardship practices, business intelligence capabilities, dashboards, data quality processes, and Power BI initiatives. Provide executive technology and product leadership for a mission-critical platform, overseeing architecture, cloud strategy, infrastructure, integrations, security, releases, vendors, scalability, and long-term sustainability. Manage annual technology budgets, forecasts, contracts, licensing, purchasing, renewals, vendor negotiations, and multi-year investment plans while developing clear business cases for major technology decisions. Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary technology and digital operations team, creating clarity around ownership, priorities, decision-making, accountability, and ways of working. Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, managed service providers, software vendors, implementation partners, and consultants to ensure resources remain aligned with organizational priorities. Continuously improve technology governance, service quality, documentation, operational resilience, employee experience, and the organization's ability to use technology effectively at scale. Requirements: 12+ years of progressive leadership experience across technology, digital operations, enterprise syst