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# Vice President of Customer Acquisition Technology

- **Company:** The Upstate
- **Location:** Centennial, CO, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $220,000.0 - $255,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Databases, Continuous Integration, Netsuite, Salesforce.Com, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Value Engineering, Enterprise Software Applications, Large Language Models
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/job/vice-president-technology/11333075?handler=ApplyRedirect

## About the Role

This opportunity is particularly well suited for an accomplished Senior Director ready to step into a Vice President role, or a VP who remains close to the technology and the work. Prior VP experience is not required. We value technical credibility, commercial judgment, execution discipline, and exceptional communication and collaboration. You should be equally effective leading engineers, partnering with executives, and working with stakeholders throughout the company., * Typically 12+ years of progressive technical experience and 5+ years of increasing leadership responsibility, including substantial firsthand engineering or architecture experience and recent technical involvement.

 * Readiness to lead a 15-20-person multidisciplinary technology team, supported by experience developing technical leaders and delivering business-critical systems.
 * Strong working knowledge of modern software engineering, AWS, APIs, databases, CI/CD, testing, observability, security, enterprise applications, and IT. Experience with NetSuite and Salesforce, or comparable ERP and CRM platforms, is valuable.
 * Practical familiarity with AI-assisted development, LLMs, and automation, plus a demonstrated habit of learning and helping teams adopt better tools and methods.
 * Evidence of commercial judgment, value engineering, disciplined budgeting, and delivery-not just technical expertise.
 * Excellent communication and collaboration: clear explanations, attentive listening, constructive disagreement, and the ability to build trust and alignment at every level. Low ego, high standards, and strong follow-through.
 * A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience. Leadership capability and results matter more than title history.

## Description

Reporting directly to the CEO, you will lead a multidisciplinary technology team of approximately 15-20 employees and own our complete technology environment: PlatformGold®, software development, product execution, data, AI and automation, AWS, NetSuite, Salesforce, enterprise applications, integrations, cybersecurity, and all company IT, systems, networks, hardware, and end-user technology.

The CEO sets strategic, product, and innovation direction. You provide candid technical advice and turn that direction into reliable, scalable solutions and measurable business results. Your scope will expand as the company grows and diversifies.

This is an in-office position, not remote or hybrid, based primarily at our Centennial headquarters. Expect approximately six business days each month in Boulder, plus periodic travel to our Fayetteville, New York office, other company and partner locations, and relevant conferences.
What you'll deliver

 * Technical leadership with real depth. Stay close to architecture, code, cloud infrastructure, APIs, and data. Work alongside engineers on complex decisions and problems without becoming the primary developer or a bottleneck.
 * Business value and delivery velocity. Focus resources on transformative, well-supported opportunities. Understand full project costs, budgets, capacity, opportunity cost, and cost of delay; simplify, defer, or stop lower-value work and defend priorities constructively with stakeholders.
 * Accountable execution. Set credible scope, budgets, milestones, and delivery commitments. Deliver on time or early and at or below approved budgets, surfacing risks early and measuring outcomes after launch. Value engineer faster, simpler, more economical solutions without compromising essential quality or controls.
 * A stronger technology team. Recruit, coach, and develop strong talent and future leaders. Set clear ownership, address performance, build succession and backup coverage, and keep the team's skills and practices current as technology changes.
 * Dependable customer and employee technology. Advance PlatformGold® and its APIs, where usability, speed, pricing and data accuracy, and reliability matter. Own enterprise systems, integrations, cybersecurity, IT support, hardware, continuity, and recovery across the company.
 * A growing technology advantage. Evaluate and adopt useful advances in AI, automation, and engineering practices. Build reusable capabilities for new business lines, assess technology implications of partnerships or acquisitions under consideration, and track delivery, reliability, customer outcomes, and technology economics., The Vice President of Customer Acquisition Technology will lead the technology strategy for customer acquisition platforms, modernizing them using cloud-native architectures and AI, while partnering with various stakeholders to enhance technological capabilities and operational efficiency.
Top Skills: AIApi DesignCi/CdCloud-Native ArchitecturesDevOpsDistributed SystemsEvent-Driven ArchitecturesJavaLlmsMicroservicesPegaReact

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