VP, Consumer Technology

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We are actively searching for a Vice President, Consumer Technology to lead the digital transformation of our consumer platforms and ensuring consistent omni-channel integration and processes. This role will be responsible for leading our platforms strategy for customer experience, sales, eCommerce and retail stores. As a member of the Technology leadership team, they will contribute to the development and execution of the enterprise-wide Technology strategy and ensure its alignment with the enterprise's business strategy and the delivery of capabilities required to achieve business success.

Position Type (See Workplace Approach Below): Onsite

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale a best-in-class, global Consumer Technology organization focused on digital transformation of our consumer platforms and ensuring consistent omni-channel integration and processes
• Develop the consumer technology strategy and roadmap, and ensure its integration with the overall IT/enterprise strategic plans
• Responsible for consumer technology platforms, which includes customer experience, sales, eCommerce and retail stores
• Lead the design, development, operation, and support of platforms
• Develop and maintain platform sourcing strategy and provide strategic oversight for vendor/partner relationship management OR Manage third-party vendor relationships and service contracts to augment service capabilities
• Responsible for daily operations of Cloud infrastructure and development
• Identify business process and practices that can be improved and develop service improvement plans that achieve these results
•  Manage all consumer technology related projects using rigor, planning, and risk-proof deliverables to ensure that adverse outcomes are minimized
• Drive the development and implementation of consumer technology standards, governance processes and performance metrics to ensure IT delivers value to the enterprise
• Develop and maintain short- and long-term budgetary projections and plans for the consumer technology activities and ensure its consistency with overall company objectives and plan
• Champion consumer technology innovation efforts and its role in experimenting with new solutions to take advantage of business opportunities
• Provides direction on what emerging technologies should be assimilated, integrated, and introduced to ensure improvement in performance disaster recovery tests
• Manage communication across the organization, to ensure effective collection and dissemination of information regarding consumer technology initiative
  
  

Qualifications And Attributes

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 20 years of experience in Technology roles, with extensive experience in consumer technology transformations for global companies, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• At least 10 years of people management experience
• Experience in building high performing teams with the ability to create the foundation for the future in a rapidly changing environment.
• Strong experience architecting and optimizing Consumer Technologies – eCommerce (SFCC, Shopify, Hybris), Retail/POS solutions, Marketing technologies (Salesforce, Liquid, Braze) and Data Warehousing/Analytics services (GCP Big Query, Tableau, AI/ML)
• Expertise in modern cloud IT Infrastructure solutioning – Azure, Microsoft 365, ITSM (ServiceNow), Google Cloud, etc.
• Experience working within corporate environments that are experiencing massive growth and global expansion, including scaling and integrating consumer technology platforms
• Ability to create a consumer technology roadmap that will enable current and future business needs
• Consumer product and retail industry experience required
• Passion for building outstanding teams and creating an environment where individuals can do their best work
• Executive presence and the ability to effectively communicate across varying audiences
• Strong business and commercial acumen
  
  

US Workplace Approach

Onsite: Role requires you to be onsite full-time.

Hybrid: Role requires you to be located in Austin, Texas and is a mixture of onsite and remote.

Remote: Role is full-time remote.

Approach may vary based on role.

YETI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

YETI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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