Vice President Information Technology

Patmos; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match (4%)

Disability insurance (short & long)

Life insurance (company paid)

Parental leave & family perks

Paid holidays (14 days)

Job summary

Patmos seeks a VP of Information Technology to own technology execution and internal operations. You will lead the teams that build, integrate, and secure the systems used company-wide, partnering with Infrastructure and executive leadership to align technology with business priorities.

You will shape standards, budgets, and roadmaps, while coaching leaders and engineers to deliver outcomes with discipline and minimal heroics. This is a high-responsibility, hands-on leadership role at Patmos.

Qualifications

• 15+ years across IT, systems, and technology operations with at least 10 years leading a full-stack team.
• Experience shipping operating models, integrations, and security programs that others run.
• Comfortable in a fast-moving, employee-owned company where execution matters as a priority.

Responsibilities

• Lead the internal technology organization — set priorities, standards, growth paths, and performance.
• Install operating rhythm: ticket SLAs, on-call, documentation, runbooks, and visible status.
• Build a bench to empower the next layer to own outcomes without constant supervision.
• Own the IT budget end to end and report it clearly with Finance as a partner.
• Own systems, data, and integration across core portfolios (applications, CRM, HR, contracts).
• Oversee security program including identity, access, incident response, and audits.

Skills

IT leadership

Security program

Identity & access management

Team leadership

Operational discipline

Job description

About Patmos

Patmos is the only profitable independent multi-megawatt AI hosting owner-operator in the country. We convert brownfield industrial sites into environmentally sustainable, community-improving, high-density data centers — delivering speed-to-power that the hyperscalers cannot match. Our web hosting and professional services divisions create a freer internet for businesses of all sizes. We are employee-owned, we move fast, and our internal operations need to run as well as the facilities we build for clients.

The Role

The VP of Information Technology owns execution of technology and internal operations for Patmos. The CEO and the executive team set the priorities. This role has full authority to determine how those priorities get done — buy, build, integrate, or retire — within budgets developed in partnership with Finance.

This is an enterprise operator, not a specialist who owns a slice of the stack. You are accountable for the systems the company runs on, the security posture that protects it, the operating discipline of the teams that deliver it, and the outcomes those teams produce. Software that serves the business, internal IT, identity, integrations, and company-wide security sit with you. You partner with the VP of Infrastructure and provide guidance on execution at the facilities layer so corporate technology and operational technology stay aligned.

Success is the success of your people. We need a selfless leader who gets results through others, who builds a team that can run without heroics, and who still has the technical and operational judgment to point more junior people at the right work and coach them to a finished outcome. You will still get your hands in the work when the situation demands it. You will not confuse being busy with leading.

You report to the CEO. You sit on the executive team and work alongside the Director of Engineering (who builds what you specify) and the Director of Program Management (who drives rollout and adoption of what you ship). For the right person, this seat is the proving ground for company-wide technology leadership as Patmos scales.

How You Operate

• Job zero is execution against priorities the business has already named. Strategy without delivery is not the job.
• You have full authority over method: architecture, vendor selection, sequencing, and operating model — inside agreed budgets and with Finance as a standing partner, not an after-the-fact reviewer.
• You lead through the team. Outcomes are measured by whether the function performs when you are not in the ticket.
• You partner with the VP of Infrastructure. You set standards and give execution guidance; facility operators run the plant. Boundaries are clear. Accountability is shared where the layers meet.
• You specify; engineering builds. You do not accumulate a shadow product org, and you do not wait for perfect specs while the business is blocked.
• You default to integrate and administer. You build only when the business case is real and the operating cost of custom is understood.

Responsibilities

Leadership and operating discipline

• Lead, develop, and hold accountable the internal technology organization — priorities, standards, growth paths, and performance.
• Install operating rhythm: ticket SLAs, on-call, documentation, runbooks, and visible status so the function runs on process, not heroics.
• Build a bench. Your job is to make the next layer of the team capable of owning outcomes without you in the middle of every decision.
• Own the IT budget end to end and report it cleanly. No surprises.

Systems, data, and integration

• Own the application portfolio — accounting and billing, CRM, project management, procurement, HR and payroll — as one integrated operating platform, not a pile of subscriptions.
• Establish a single source of truth for core company data: customers, contracts, assets, sites, and people. Eliminate duplicate systems of record.
• Own integrations. Specify the custom tooling and glue Engineering should build. Manage the SaaS estate: licensing, renewals, consolidation, and spend.
• Deliver the systems that physical security, physical infrastructure, and the commercial organization depend on — built, integrated, and run to a standard the rest of the company can trust.

Security — company-wide

• Own the security program from end to end: corporate IT, internally built tools, and the OT layer of live facilities (BMS, power monitoring, physical access, client environment boundaries). Set the standard. Verify compliance in partnership with infrastructure operators.
• Identity and access everywhere: SSO, MFA, role-based access, quarterly reviews, and airtight onboarding and offboarding.
• Incident response, tested backups, patching, and vulnerability management across the estate.
• Own client security questionnaires and lead the company to third-party attestation (SOC 2 or equivalent). Questionnaires become a sales asset, not a fire drill.

Corporate technology operations

• Endpoint and device management, corporate network, and the collaboration stack.
• An employee support experience with measured response standards and a reputation for closing work.
• Stay close enough to the work that you can diagnose, direct, and unblock — without becoming the bottleneck.

Qualifications

• 15+ years across IT, systems, and technology operations, with at least 10 years leading a team that owned a full stack — not a function inside someone else’s stack.
• You have run execution, not just advised on it. You have shipped operating models, integrations, and security programs that other people now run.
• Comfortable in a fast-moving, employee-owned company where you are measured on whether things work — and on whether your team can make them work without you.

What Success Looks Like

• Within 6 months: the technology organization runs on defined process; access management is airtight; leadership can see system status without asking; the team is visibly stronger than the day you arrived.
• Within 12 months: core systems are integrated around a single source of truth; we have passed or are on a clear path to pass a third-party security assessment; questionnaires are routine.
• Ongoing: business priorities move from decision to production without you becoming the critical path; your people own outcomes; infrastructure and corporate technology execute against a shared standard.

Requirements

• Enterprise IT Operations and Leadership
• Security Program Management (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or equivalent)
• Identity and Access Management (SSO, MFA, RBAC)
• Team Leadership and Development
• Execution and Operational Discipline

Nice to Have

• SaaS and Application Portfolio Management
• Industrial/OT Environments and Data Center Operations

  How We Hire

  Patmos was founded to put technology back at the service of humans. We hire culture first, talent always. We want people who have an axe to grind with technocracy and who treat execution as a moral obligation to the people who depend on the systems they run.

  About Us

  Patmos Hosting, Inc. delivers Freedom as a ServiceTM, providing organizations with an independent alternative to Big Tech's commercial constraints, censorship, cancellation and deplatforming. Patmos owns and operates datacenter infrastructure with decentralized connectivity, open peering, and free Internet Exchange hosting, ensuring resilience and true independence. Its services span multi-megawatt colocation for AI and hyperscale workloads, GPU/high-performance compute, custom data centers, domains, web and cloud hosting, colocation and tailored website and application development.

  Founded in 2022, Patmos is headquartered in Kansas City, MO, with teams and datacenters/locations in Kansas City, Dallas, Phoenix, Denver.

  Why Join Us

  Be part of a mission-driven company defending free speech and internet freedom.

  At Patmos, you'll help protect online expression while ensuring legal compliance. Our team is shaping the future of digital freedom by building secure, high-performance internet infrastructure. We value privacy, innovation, and individual liberty—creating a purpose-driven, collaborative environment where your work matters.

  Benefits include:

  • 401(k) match (4%)
  • Short and long term disability
  • Life insurance (company paid and supplemental available)
  • Generous parental leave, baby bonuses, marital bonuses, and other family-friendly perks
  • 14 observed paid holidays that include solemnities

  Patmos is an equal opportunity employer and proud member of the Catholic Benefits Association offering employee benefits that promote the dignity of the human person, the dignity of work, and the common good.