VP, IT - Architect of Digital Acceleration

<div class="content-intro"><p>Gong harnesses the power of AI to transform how revenue teams win. The Gong Revenue AI Operating System unifies data, insights, and workflows into a single, trusted system that observes, guides, and acts alongside the world’s most successful revenue teams. Powered by the Gong Revenue Graph, AI-powered intelligence, specialized agents, and trusted applications, Gong helps more than 5,000 companies around the world deeply understand their teams and customers, automate critical sales workflows, and close more deals with less effort. For more information, visit www.gong.io.</p> <p>At Gong, you will join a company built on innovative products, ambitious goals, and passionate people. We are shaping the future of revenue intelligence and we want people who are excited to build what comes next. You will work with a team that dreams big, moves fast, and cares deeply about the craft and about each other. Here, transparency and trust are core to how we operate, and every person has the opportunity to make a visible impact. If you want to grow, stretch, and do work that truly matters, Gong is the place to do the best work of your career.</p></div><p>As our Vice President of IT, you aren’t just keeping the lights on; you are building the nervous system of a global AI powerhouse. You will move beyond “traditional IT” to create a frictionless, secure environment where technology enables speed rather than hindering it. This role is responsible for architecting the enterprise platforms, operating models, and governance that allow the business to scale rapidly, securely, and with confidence.</p> <p><strong>You MUST be located in one of our hub locations (San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Austin, New York City Metro, Chicago) due to our hybrid work model.</strong></p> <h5>RESPONSIBILITIES</h5> <ul> <li>Engineer a High-Velocity Workforce: Lead global IT operations and workforce enablement for thousands of employees across international locations, ensuring a secure, reliable, and scalable environment that matches the speed of a high-growth SaaS ecosystem.</li> <li>Scale the AI Infrastructure Nerve Center: Beyond standard IT, architect the enterprise and platform infrastructure that enables large-scale AI-powered SaaS environments, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability as the business grows.</li> <li>Design a Zero-Trust Identity Ecosystem: Move past legacy controls by defining and executing a multi-year IAM strategy rooted in Zero Trust principles, cloud-native identity platforms, and password-less authentication.</li> <li>Scale Through Intelligent Automation: Transform IT from a service provider into a platform by scaling global organizations through periods of rapid growth while introducing deep automation, standardization, and operational rigor.</li> <li>Transform Compliance into a Competitive Advantage: Embed operational controls into daily processes to move beyond “check-the-box” compliance, enabling seamless support for SOX, SOC 2, and regulated market requirements while strengthening customer trust.</li> <li>Drive Cross-Functional Synergy: Implement Enterprise Service Management (ESM) platform to consolidate operations across multiple departments—including Business Intelligence, HR, and Engineering—improving visibility, efficiency, and alignment company-wide. Serve as a trusted executive partner to Product, Security, Finance, and Engineering leadership to align technology investment with business priorities.</li> <li>Orchestrate MA and Rapid Integration: Lead the technical integration of mergers and acquisitions, consolidating disparate SaaS, collaboration, and end-user platforms into a unified, high-performance enterprise standard.</li> <li>Optimize the “Innovation Budget”: Direct multi-million-dollar operating budgets through vendor consolidation, strategic sourcing, and disciplined investment decisions to ensure every dollar spent accelerates business growth.</li> <li>Executive Accountability: Own t ... (truncated, view full listing at source)