Global VP of Services Execution & Transformation
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Global Vice President of Services Execution & Transformation
Octave OnCall is the public-safety software portfolio behind some of the largest 911 centers, police departments, fire services, and EMS agencies - including the Toronto Police Service, the Sonoma County Public Safety Consortium, Huntsville-Madison County 911, and regional emergency communications centers across Massachusetts. Our Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD), Records Management System (RMS), Field Mobility, Analytics, Planning & Response, and Assistive AI products sit at the heart of incident response for agencies protecting hundreds of millions of people.
Following Octave's spin-off from Hexagon, we're accelerating a shift to cloud-delivered, AI-enabled public safety - which means our existing on-premises customers need a confident, well-orchestrated path forward, and our new customers expect faster, more predictable deployments than this industry has historically delivered. That's where this role comes in.
The Global VP of Services Execution & Transformation owns the end-to-end delivery of OnCall implementation, deployment, and migration services across the globe. You are accountable for the portfolio of customer programs - from a mid-sized PSAP standing up CAD for the first time, to a multi-agency regional consortium consolidating onto OnCall in the cloud, to a 5,000-seat metropolitan police department migrating a legacy on-prem RMS.
This is equally a delivery leadership role and a transformation role. You will run the current services organization - project managers, deployment engineers, solution architects, training, and cutover specialists - while simultaneously modernizing how we deliver: shorter time-to-value, repeatable cloud deployment patterns, productized service offerings, partner enablement, and a measurable improvement in margin, predictability, and customer go-live confidence.
This role is the operating engine behind a step-change in how OnCall executes. You will partner closely with R&D and Product to compress the distance between what we build and how we deliver it, and you will reshape the services org to match where the business is going - not where it has been.
- Accelerate project excellence. Stand up a PMO, delivery, and technical implementation function operating at a true center-of-excellence standard - consistent methodology, transparent project health, predictable forecasting, and disciplined risk and escalation management across every global program.
- Shift the operating culture. Move the organization from a customer-feature-requirement mindset (every deployment is bespoke; services absorbs product gaps) to a software-implementation mindset (configure the product, don't customize it; close gaps through the roadmap, not through services hours). This is a cultural shift as much as a process one, and it requires close partnership with R&D, Product, and Sales.
- Hire, train, and shift talent. Build the team this future needs. Bring in leaders and practitioners with modern SaaS delivery DNA, re-skill tenured talent who know the product and the customer base deeply, and reshape roles so the organization is set up to deliver the new model - not to perpetuate the old one.
- Tighten the R&D-to-Services loop. Create the operating cadence with Engineering and Product that turns field-learned implementation friction into prioritized roadmap input, and turns roadmap delivery into faster, cleaner deployments. The goal is a flywheel: every project should make the next one easier.
Requirements
- Direct experience with CAD, RMS, or field mobility deployments
- Background as a former 911 director, police technology leader, or fire/EMS IT executive who later moved vendor-side
- Familiarity with Hexagon / Octave OnCall, Motorola, CentralSquare, Tyler, Mark43, or comparable platforms
- Experience integrating an AI-assisted offering into an established services motion