Overview
Our client is a fast-growing, founder-led organisation moving from start-up energy into a more structured, scalable growth phase. Technology is central to success, but it now needs focus to enable the business to move faster.
This is a senior leadership opportunity for a hands-on IT Director who can take a solid but fragmented technology estate and turn it into a streamlined, secure, future-ready platform. You’ll sit at Executive level, work closely with founders and the CEO, and play a defining role in shaping how technology supports customers, revenue, and long-term growth.
Foundations
- Strong technology partners and consultants
- Improved software stability
- A small but capable core team across IT Ops, DevOps, Helpdesk, and Projects
Focus
- Reducing cost and complexity
- Driving automation and AI-led efficiencies
- Making technology more effective, better communicated, and more commercially aligned
Your mandate is clear: make it leaner, smarter, and more impactful.
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver a 3-year technology roadmap aligned to business growth
- Lead IT strategy, operations, security, and vendor management
- Optimise OPEX budget, with a clear target to cut costs, through smarter spend, simplification, and automation
- Rationalise a tech stack that has grown through add-ons and point solutions
- Strengthen cyber security, governance, and compliance
- Bring visibility and clarity to technology decisions, risks, and outcomes at Exec level
- Be present, vocal, and influential
- Lead, develop, and challenge a hybrid internal and outsourced team
About you
- An EdTech or Software House background would lend itself well here, or a B2B2C environment, so you have full understanding of customer onboarding and experience.
- Commercially minded and comfortable owning full budgets
- Previously led change in scaling, founder-led or growth-stage environments
- Balances strategy with delivery and isn’t afraid to get hands-on
- Can simplify complexity and explain technology simply
- Has experience with SaaS platforms, cloud environments, integrations, and vendors
- Understands cyber security, GDPR, and operational risk
Role Details
Hybrid role: 3 days per week in the office (St Albans)
Salary up to £120,000
Up to 20% bonus, 28 days holiday + Bank Holiday, 6% employer pension contribution, wellbeing programme and more.
Modern office space, free breakfast, discounted parking
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