Position Title: Director of Information Technology
Reports To: Chief Financial Officer
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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**Position Summary**
The Director of Information Technology is responsible for planning,
coordinating, directing, and designing worldwide technology systems, as well
as providing administrative direction and support for the daily IT operations.
The Director of Information Technology will work closely with decision makers
in other departments to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support
cost-effective technology solutions for maximum productivity.
**Essential Functions**
* Conceptualizes, evaluates, and implements long and short-term information technology strategies, plans, and priorities for our corporate-wide infrastructure and applications in an integrated and holistic manner.
* Oversee the Company's network infrastructure and provide security, regulatory compliance and provision for disaster recovery. Maintain security of all data proprietary to the Company and provide for the complete backup of all computer systems in case of system failure or disaster.
* Leverage cloud infrastructure and plan, design and migrate on premise to cloud resulting in scalable and cost optimal infrastructure.
* Acquisition systems integration ensuring the IT frameworks of multiple entities are unified and optimized.
* Reviews the performance of IT systems to determine operating costs, productivity levels, maintenance, renewals and upgrade requirements for the installed hardware and software.
* Manage end-user services, including desk-top and technical support services.
* Negotiates all IT vendor contracts. Reviews and advises on purchases of all hardware, software, and automation-related services.
**Required Education, Experience and Skills**
* BA/BS or equivalent experience.
* Fifteen (15) or more years of experience in an IT role in an organic and inorganic growth environment.
* Five (5) or more years of experience managing cross functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management.
* Thoroughly familiar with rapid changes in the information technology environment. Proficient with a wide variety of Operating Systems: Windows, Mac, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, HPUX. Proficient with common IT infrastructure: internet, intranets, VPNs.
* Thoroughly familiar with best of breed global corporate applications including CRM (SalesForce), Issue Tracking, Project Management, and Finance (Netsuite).
* Solid understanding of systems development life cycles.
* Proven experience in IT/Help Desk Management, planning, organization, and development.
* Demonstrated experience with Cisco VOIP technologies.
* The ability to motivate, lead, and develop a team.
**Working Conditions and/or Physical Demands**
* Travel as required for the role, up to 20%.
* Occasional light lifting of up to 40 lbs.
Enterprises across the globe rely on Perforce to build and deliver digital
products faster and with higher quality. Perforce offers complete developer
collaboration and agile project management tools to accelerate delivery cycles
-- from agile planning tools to requirements, issues and test management, which
then link to all source code, binary assets and artifacts for full build and
release tracking and visibility. The company's version control solutions are
well known for securely managing change across all digital content -- source
code, art files, video files, images, libraries -- while supporting the
developer and build tools your teams need to be productive, such as Git,
Visual Studio, Jenkins, Adobe, Maya and many others. Perforce is trusted by
the world's most innovative brands, including NVIDIA, Pixar, Scania, Ubisoft,
and VMware. The company has offices in Minneapolis, MN, Alameda, CA, Mason,
OH, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Germany, India and Australia, and
sales partners around the globe. For more information, please visit
[www.perforce.com](https://www.perforce.com/).
**Perforce is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Minorities, Women, Veterans, Disabilities**
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