About This Role
This role will define how Harvard Business School transforms amidst the opportunities and risks presented by current and future technological waves. The successful candidate will connect, align, manage, and amplify innovation already occurring across various school and university initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Help define how the institution transforms amidst technological opportunities and risks
- Determine how technologies such as artificial intelligence, enterprise data, digital platforms, and emerging capabilities become enduring strategic assets for the School
- Model the deployment of these technologies for higher education and for business more broadly
- Connect, align, manage, and amplify innovation across HBS IT, HBS Online, Executive Education, faculty initiatives, Harvard University IT (HUIT), and the School's innovation organizations
- Shape enterprise strategy
- Advise senior leadership
- Build organizational alignment
- Help diverse stakeholders navigate an increasingly technology-enabled future
Requirements
- Accomplished technology executive with experience leading enterprise strategy, digital transformation, and organizational change within complex institutions
- Strategic perspective to help shape institutional direction
- Credibility to engage faculty, administrators, technology professionals, and senior leaders as trusted partners
- 15+ years of information technology experience including executive leadership within a complex technology unit
- Experience with enterprise technology strategy or large-scale digital transformation
- Experience with artificial intelligence, enterprise data, digital platforms, cybersecurity, and cloud technologies
- Leadership across decentralized or highly matrixed organizations
- Experience building collaboration across multiple organizational units
- Experience applying design thinking, customer-centered innovation, or comparable human-centered approaches to enterprise transformation
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, business administration, or related field
Nice to have:
Benefits
- Generous paid time off including parental leave
- Medical, dental, and vision health insurance coverage starting on day one
- Retirement plans with university contributions
- Wellbeing and mental health resources
- Support for families and caregivers
- Professional development opportunities including tuition assistance and reimbursement
- Commuter benefits, discounts and campus perks
Important Details
- Schedule: 40 hours per week
- Pre-Employment Screening: Identity, Education, Criminal, Credit
- Visa Sponsorship Information: Harvard University is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position
About the Company
Harvard Business School, located on a 40-acre campus in Boston, was founded in 1908 as part of Harvard University. It is among the world's most trusted sources of management education and thought leadership. Through a dynamic ecosystem of research, learning, and entrepreneurship that includes MBA, Doctoral, Executive Education, and Online programs, as well as numerous initiatives, centers, institutes, and labs, Harvard Business School fosters bold new ideas and collaborative learning networks that shape the future of business. Harvard University is a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds skills and expertise.
