IT Director - Product Tech

LEMNIS; United States; Remote; USD 145,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Lemnis is seeking an IT Operations Director to build and scale our technology function from the ground up. You will own strategic IT roadmaps, drive FinOps, security, and enterprise-grade operations while overseeing a lean, high-performance team.

You will partner with executives to mature our infrastructure, lead end-to-end IT processes, and ensure seamless provisioning, onboarding, and system access across acquired organizations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in IT operations, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
• Deep, hands-on proficiency with Google Workspace (Admin Console, GAM), Entra ID/M365, and modern IdP platforms.
• Experience managing SaaS environments at scale (provisioning, licensing, SSO configuration, lifecycle management).
• Strong background in endpoint management (Intune, NinjaRMM, or similar MDM/RMM).
• Demonstrated ability to design and ship IT automations and workflows (Jira Automation, Trelica, Zapier, scripting, or equivalent).
• Experience with FinOps, IT budgeting, or vendor spend management.
• Experience onboarding acquired companies or new divisions onto a shared technology stack.
• ITSM experience using Jira Service Management (JSM), Zendesk, or equivalent platform.
• Clear communicator—comfortable creating documentation, SOPs, and training materials.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead strategic IT initiatives including FinOps pipeline and dashboards.
• Expand SaaS governance, onboarding/offboarding, and contract management.
• Formalize backup, DR procedures, and security posture with documented evidence.
• Lead IT-to-People Ops onboarding tech workflow from recruitment to Day 1.
• Oversee IT due diligence for M&A and integration planning.
• Drive IT onboarding for divisions onto Lemnis workspace stack (Workspace, Slack, Jira/JSM, 1Password).
• Redesign onboarding playbooks to be automated, clear, and consistently executed.
• Design cross-platform automations (JSM, Trelica, Jira) to reduce toil.

Skills

IT leadership

Strategic planning

SaaS management

FinOps

Security governance

G Workspace administration

Entra ID / M365

Jira/JSM

Automation/DevOps

Vendor management

Tools

Google Workspace Admin Console

Entra ID / M365

GAM

Jira Service Management

Trelica

Zapier

Intune

NinjaRMM

Job description

Position Type: Full-Time (Primarily Remote) Salary: $145,000 - $175,000 DOE Join our team at Lemnis! Lemnis is a public charity dedicated to harnessing transformative change to expand learning for all. We are excited to announce a new opportunity for a IT Director - Product Tech to join our innovative, forward-thinking, and growing organization. At Lemnis, we are committed to fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment where every team member can thrive. If you are passionate about expanding learning for all, eager to make a meaningful impact, and ready to take on new challenges, we would love to hear from you.

Position Summary

At Lemnis, we believe that the world is changing in exciting ways. It's up to us to create more equitable, flexible, and learner-centered systems that empower young people to rise to the challenges and opportunities of the future. We're looking for both a strategic and hands-on IT Operations Director to lead and scale our IT function from the ground up during a period of rapid growth driven by mergers and acquisitions. This person will drive strategic initiatives that mature our technology infrastructure, FinOps capabilities, security posture, while simultaneously own day-to-day IT operations. You'll inherit a lean, high-performing team and be expected to elevate processes, design automations, and build systems that reduce manual effort across the organization. The successful candidate must be equally comfortable and adept at establishing technology roadmaps, advising senior leaders, troubleshooting urgent issues, configuring systems, and working directly with employees and acquired-company teams.

Core Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Initiatives

• FinOps Pipeline: Design and implement (using your team of 4 and consultants as necessary) an automated financial operations pipeline—ingesting data into a data warehouse, and building actional dashboards to replace manually reconciled spreadsheets. Own spend tracking, projection, and reporting.
• Operational Excellence: Expand beyond automated on/offboarding to full lifecycle SaaS management—vendor contract storage, invoice alerting, renewal notifications, Shadow IT detection, and integration with the FinOps pipeline.
• End-to-End Security & Resilience: Formalize backup and disaster recovery procedures across enterprise platforms. Design and lead intentional restore drills. Build documentation and evidence of resilience testing. Manage endpoint protection, DLP policy tuning, and AI app governance.
• Rapid HR Pipeline (Sourcing to Onboarding): Take the lead on the IT-to-People Ops onboarding pipeline. Own the technology handshake from recruitment through Day 1—ensuring provisioning, welcome communications, equipment logistics, and system access are seamless and internally driven rather than vendor-dependent.
• M&A Support: Lead enterprise IT due diligence for potential acquisitions, including infrastructure, applications, contracts, cybersecurity, staffing, and integration risk.
• Division Onboarding: Lead the technology integration of newly acquired or merged divisions (“Divisions”) (e.g., migrate teams onto Lemnis Google Workspace, Slack, Jira/JSM, 1Password, laptops, and IT Help Desk portal). Build productive relationships with acquired organization leaders and technical teams and work with integration teams to document integration plans, milestones, dependencies, budgets, owners, and risk‑mitigation activities. Partnering with Division teams, identify opportunities to consolidate licenses, vendors, and infrastructure while minimizing disruption to employees and customers.
• Onboarding Playbook Elevation: Redesign and maintain the employee technology onboarding playbook to be best-in-class—automated where possible, clear where manual, and consistently executed regardless of which team member runs it.
• Workflow Design & Automation: Design JSM workflows, Trelica automations, Jira automation rules, and cross-platform integrations that reduce toil. Examples: automated vendor security screening handoffs between Procurement and IT, automated App Catalogue request-to-provisioning pipelines, onboarding/offboarding runbooks with minimal manual steps.

Hands-On IT Operations (Day-to-Day)

Remain actively engaged in day-to-day IT operations and step in directly to diagnose and resolve high-priority or complex technical issues:

• Account & Access Management: Provision and deprovision user accounts across Google Workspace, Entra ID, 1Password, Salesforce, Zoom, Slack, Jira, Confluence, and other SaaS platforms
• Employee Onboarding & Offboarding: Execute end-to-end onboarding (G-Suite, IDP, laptops, Slack, Zoom, Jira/Confluence, 1Password) and offboarding (account suspension, data transfer/delegation via GAM, laptop returns, access revocation)
• Help Desk Triage & Resolution: IT Help Desk queue—Google Drive sharing issues, calendar access, email deliverability, SSO troubleshooting, DLP incidents, hardware problems, VPN/international access, locked accounts, software licensing (Adobe Pro, etc.)
• Endpoint Management: Laptop provisioning, hardware repairs/replacements, device enrollment (Intune/Entra), peripheral procurement
• Email & Communication Systems: Manage Google Groups, distribution lists, unsubscribe email configurations, Gmail allowlisting, and calendar delegation
• Telephony & Conferencing: Administer Zoom and Vonage environments, including licensing, recording access, and integration with other platforms (HubSpot, Calendly)
• Security Operations: Respond to phishing reports, manage the security mailbox, enforce DLP warning rules, handle Shadow IT detection, and support vendor security screenings (HECVAT, security questionnaires)
• Support: Support executive and employee technology needs with urgency, sound judgment, and clear communication.

Team & Operational Management

• Manage and mentor 3 IT Support Engineers; ensure coverage, quality, and professional development
• Own SLA performance across the IT Help Desk and foster a practical, responsive, service-oriented culture that combines disciplined controls with a strong employee experience.
• Establish and maintain IT policies and SOPs (data retention, international travel access, laptop lifecycle, local admin, security protocols)
• Manage the IT budget in coordination with Procurement and Finance—software renewals, hardware procurement, and contractor/vendor spend
• Serve as the primary IT liaison to People Operations, Legal, Finance, and Security
• Drive vendor relationships (MSPs, SaaS providers, telephony vendors) proactively rather than reactively
• Plan for future team capacity and skills based on business growth, acquisition activity, technology complexity, and service demand.

Compliance

• Support applicable audits, customer requirements, contractual commitments, insurance requirements, and regulatory obligations.

Qualifications

Required

• 10+ years in IT operations, with at least 3 years in a leadership role managing both people and systems
• Deep, hands‑on proficiency with Google Workspace (Admin Console, GAM, Groups, Drive, Gmail), Microsoft Entra ID / M365, and modern IdP platforms
• Experience managing SaaS environments at scale (provisioning, licensing, SSO configuration, lifecycle management)
• Strong background in endpoint management (Intune, NinjaRMM, or similar MDM/RMM)
• Demonstrated ability to design and ship IT automations and workflows (Jira Automation, Trelica, Zapier, scripting, or equivalent)
• Experience with FinOps, IT budgeting, or vendor spend management
• Working knowledge of security fundamentals: DLP, endpoint protection, backup/DR, vendor risk assessments
• Experience onboarding acquired companies or new divisions onto a shared technology stack
• ITSM experience using Jira Service Management (JSM), Zendesk, or equivalent platform
• Clear communicator—comfortable creating documentation, SOPs, and training materials

Preferred

• Google Administrator Certification
• Microsoft Administrator Certification
• Security-related certifications

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgement. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.