VP, Demo Platforms & Presales Innovation

UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group); Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 207,000 - 298,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG seeks a visionary VP, Demo Environments to lead strategy, delivery, and operations of enterprise demo environments that showcase HR, Payroll, and Workforce Management SaaS solutions. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing to animate customer scenarios in live demos and drive environment lifecycle management with automation and excellence.

The leader will align with product releases, influence design for demonstrable value, and partner with sales to enable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field required.
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in enterprise SaaS organizations.
• 8+ years leading global technical organizations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the enterprise vision and multi-year roadmap for demo environments across all HCM product lines.
• Establish demo environments as a strategic corporate capability that directly supports revenue growth, customer engagement, analyst relations, and executive briefings.
• Define organizational priorities, investment strategies, governance, and success metrics.
• Build and lead a high-performing global organization focused on innovation, operational excellence, and customer impact.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, accountability, and technical excellence.
• Lead teams responsible for environment provisioning, data management, refresh automation, configuration management, release readiness, environment monitoring, performance optimization, availability and reliability.
• Establish service levels and operational excellence practices to ensure high availability and rapid issue resolution.
• Implement automation to reduce manual effort and improve scalability.
• Partner with Product Management and Engineering to align demo environments with product release cycles.
• Deliver standardized, high-quality demo experiences that support enterprise sales, strategic pursuits, executive demonstrations, and industry events.
• Define enterprise standards for demo data strategy and oversee creation of realistic customer personas and business scenarios.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Enterprise SaaS

Cloud platforms

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering / related field

Tools

DevOps practices

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Job description

UKG seeks a visionary VP, Demo Environments to lead strategy, delivery, and operations of enterprise demo environments that showcase HR, Payroll, and Workforce Management SaaS solutions. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing to animate customer scenarios in live demos and drive environment lifecycle management with automation and excellence.

The leader will align with product releases, influence design for demonstrable value, and partner with sales to enable