Director, Corporate IT

Location: New York, NY

Reports to: VP, Corporate Technology & Security

About AlphaSense: 

AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform used by the world's leading companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, our AI-based technology has helped professionals make smarter business decisions by delivering insights from an extensive universe of public and private content—including company filings, event transcripts, news, trade journals, and equity research. Our platform is trusted by over 3,500 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 1,000 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, and India. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com.

About the Team:

The Corporate Technology team enables every one of our employees to be their best, and is the collection of people, processes, and technology that allow AlphaSense to operate with excellence every day. We strive to be the force-multiplier for AlphaSense employees as they onboard, conduct R&D, produce and source high-value content, operate, market, sell, support our customers, and everything in between. 

About the Role: 

The Director of Corporate IT will lead the current team spanning System Administration, Mobility & Device Management, and Help Desk / Client Services. They will mature the corporate technology team as we manage through the company’s hyper growth phase, multiple acquisitions, and as we journey to and through an IPO, ensuring standard operating procedures (SOPs) are established, service level agreements (SLAs) are defined and met, and we streamline the delivery of IT Operations. This is a global team with growing presence in Europe, India, and the USA, led from our headquarters in New York, NY. 

Who You Are:

• 8+ years of experience working directly in Corporate Technology/IT and Security domains
• 4+ years experience in people management with exceptional skills recruiting and developing high-performing teams
• 2+ years of experience in the development and management of managers or director-level leaders
• Excellent verbal and written skills and a demonstrated ability to communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally
• Strong teamwork, interpersonal & relationship-building skills
• Self-motivated, highly driven, and able to work independently and through ambiguity
• Experience with privacy, financial, and security regulations and rolling out frameworks (CCPA, GDPR, SOX, SOC2, ISO27001, NIST, ITIL, etc.)
• Bachelor’s or greater degree in a related field is preferred
• Previous IPO experience is a strong plus

What You’ll Do: 

• Lead the Corporate Technology function in developing an org strategy, associated OKRs, budgeting, and resources to deliver excellence in day-to-day operations
• Assess current state of Corporate Technology capabilities, operating models, maturity levels, and develop associated roadmaps to drive successful IPO-ready strategy
• Define services, standards, organizational design, policies, processes, associated capabilities, controls, and metrics that ensure successful execution against the Corporate Technology roadmap
• Build a culture of collaboration, customer/stakeholder obsession, and impact among your team
• Collaborate with functional leaders to understand their day-to-day hardware, software, networking, and technology support needs in order to develop scalable solutions which empower them with force-multiplying capabilities

AlphaSense is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s  commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

Base Compensation Range*:  $170,000-$188,000

Additional Components: You may also be offered a performance-based bonus, equity, and a generous benefits program.

*For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all US-based roles based on function, level and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including geographic location as well as candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.