Lead, Technology Solutions
Pearson
In this Director-level role, you own the strategy, architecture, and delivery of the productivity and collaboration ecosystem, spanning tools like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and associated platforms. You will lead a global team, manage the budget and vendor contracts, and partner with security and architecture to ensure secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions. You drive enterprise adoption of new tools, guide cross-functional initiatives, and influence senior stakeholders. This role offers high impact at scale within a digitally focused organization.
Responsibilities- Define and own the strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the productivity and collaboration stack, including messaging, meeting, file, and workflow platforms
- Maintain fluency across collaboration technologies and AI-enabled productivity tools
- Evaluate new technologies, run pilots and enterprise rollouts, and oversee governance and integration standards
- Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and architecture teams to meet enterprise standards for security, compliance, scalability, and reliability
- Coordinate M&A/divestment technical integration planning and execution for productivity and collaboration
- Lead a globally distributed team, set vision and OKRs, mentor staff, and foster continuous improvement
- Drive adoption of new tools and ways of working, and represent the function in leadership forums
- Build and maintain strong relationships with business units, ensuring requirements are understood and pipeline is aligned with platform design
- Lead budgeting for licensing, infrastructure, and services; drive cost optimization and ROI focused investments
- Negotiate and manage contracts with major vendors, ensuring value, SLAs, and cost efficiency
- Manage stakeholder communications, translating business needs into technical solutions, and reporting roadmaps and incidents
- 5+ years in collaboration, digital workplace, or end-user technology roles with director-level responsibility or equivalent scale
- 3+ years in people leadership managing technical teams
- Deep expertise across collaboration platforms (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, SharePoint) and automation/workflow tools
- Proven experience owning budgets, forecasting, and financial reporting for a technology portfolio
- Track record in vendor negotiations and enterprise software contract management
- Strong stakeholder management with experience engaging senior executives
- Excellent communication, prioritization, organizational, and influencing skills
- Experience leading geographically dispersed teams
- Experience with AI-enabled productivity tools and enterprise adoption
- Certifications such as Microsoft 365, PMP, ITIL, or similar
- Experience guiding technical input for significant ($15M+) technology procurements
- Demonstrated ability to drive cost reduction without compromising performance
- Ability to cultivate matrixed internal relationships
- stakeholder management
- communication
- leadership
- Microsoft 365 (including Copilot)
- Google Workspace
- Slack
Reference: WJ-747_30184722