Director of IT
US$140,000 – US$175,000 / yr base salary
Posted 22 Jul 2026
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- Expected experience
- 6–10 yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$140,000 – US$175,000 / yr |
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Emergence Director of IT, Emergence | Remote, U.S.-based | Full-Time
About the role
Emergence is hiring its first dedicated IT hire. This is a foundational role: you will build the portfolio IT function from the ground up, serving as the primary owner of IT across our holding company and portfolio companies. You will work closely with a fractional senior IT/Security advisor who owns the architecture with you, and a managed service provider for day-to-day delivery. You are not expected to run every company's IT — you are expected to know the portfolio well enough to centralize what creates leverage across companies, leave alone what a company already does well, and know the difference.
What you'll do
Acquisition integration
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Run the IT workstream for every acquisition: inventory the stack, map access, stand up accounts and devices, wire the company into Emergence systems
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Build the Day 1-100 integration playbook this function currently lacks, then run it at roughly three closes a quarter
Identity, access, and operations
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Build and operate the joiner/mover/leaver standard across the portfolio, including offboarding completeness
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Operate the identity platform after selection and rollout (selection is in-flight, informed by a portfolio audit underway)
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Own the living inventory of tools, accounts, admin credentials, licenses, and renewal dates that every consolidation and security decision depends on
Vendors and shared services
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Manage the MSP relationship and SLA for portfolio companies that consume central IT delivery
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Own vendor contracts, renewals, license consolidation, and portfolio volume pricing
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Build the back-end connections that feed our cross-portfolio data platform
Who you are
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6-10 years in hands-on IT operations, systems administration, or MSP/consulting delivery, with at least 3 in an IT leadership role
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Experience running IT across multiple companies, clients, or business units at once — not a single-company environment, however well run
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Experience owning the IT workstream of an acquisition — due diligence, Day 1 readiness, and post-close systems rationalization and migration
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Deep understanding of tradeoffs between centralized and decentralized IT delivery; you are a vocal advocate for what works well and what doesn’t