Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About Dialpad<br></strong></span><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dialpad is the AI-native business communications platform. We unify calling, messaging, meetings, and contact center on a single platform - powered by AI that understands every conversation in real time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">More than 70,000 companies around the globe, including WeWork, Asana, NASDAQ, AAA Insurance, COMPASS Realty, Uber, Randstad, and Tractor Supply, rely on Dialpad to build stronger customer connections using real-time, AI-driven insights.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We’re now leading the shift to Agentic AI: intelligent agents that don’t just analyze conversations but take action by automating workflows, resolving customer issues, and accelerating revenue in real time. Our DAART initiative (Dialpad Agentic AI in Real Time) is redefining what a communications platform can do.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Visit <a href="https://dialpad.com/">dialpad.com</a> to learn more.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Being a Dialer</strong></span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At Dialpad, AI isn’t just a feature; it’s how our teams do their best work every day. We put powerful AI tools in every employee’s hands so they can move faster, think bigger, and achieve more.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We believe every conversation matters. And we’ve built the platform that turns those conversations into insight and action, for our customers and ourselves.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We look for people who are intensely curious and hold themselves to a high bar. Our ambition is significant, and achieving it requires a team that operates at the highest level. We seek individuals who embody our core traits:<strong> Scrappy, Curious, Optimistic, Persistent, and Empathetic</strong>.</span></p></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Your role<br></strong>As the Manager of Corporate IT, you'll lead our global IT infrastructure, services, and corporate security efforts. You’ll work closely with the business to align technology strategy with Dialpad objectives and ensure global compliance. You’ll also help create a unified, resilient security architecture that protects proprietary data and minimizes operational risk. In addition, you’ll help bring a proactive, scalable approach to IT, leveraging modern cloud solutions to support rapid growth across our 11 global offices.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This position reports to our Chief Security Officer and has the opportunity to be based in our Austin, US office.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you’ll do</strong></span></p>
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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and manage a current global team of six (6) IT specialists, fostering a culture of high performance, collaboration, and continuous improvement.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Staff Development: Conduct performance reviews, identify training opportunities, and manage career development plans for direct reports.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Global Support Management: Oversee and coordinate all IT service delivery and support across 11 international office locations and the distributed remote workforce, ensuring consistent quality and availability of services.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner effectively with various departments (e.g., HR, Finance, Facilities/Workplace) globally to understand their IT needs, align service delivery, and support business objectives.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Project Ownership: Take ownership of major IT projects from initiation through deployment, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and meet established technical and business requirements.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Infrastructure Management: Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of all corporate IT infrastructure, including networking, servers (on-premises and cloud), telecommunications, and end-user computing.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Service Desk Operations: Ensure the efficient operation and continuous improvement of the global IT service desk, focusing on high service levels and user satisfaction.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Technology Strategy: Develop and execute the long-term technology roadmap for corporate IT, ensuring it scales with the company's growth and remains current with industry best practices and technology innovations (e.g., AI, Agentic AI).</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Security of Corporate IT Services: Partner closely with the Security team to design, deploy, and operate robust IT security solutions, ensuring the protection of corporate infrastructure and data.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Incident Response: Collaborate with the Security team in supporting threat detection and response processes within the Corporate IT environment.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Compliance: Ensure IT infrastructure and processes adhere to relevant global regulatory and security compliance standards (e.g., ISO, SOC 2, GDPR).</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Budget Management: Prepare, manage, and track the annual operating and capital expenditure budget for Corporate IT and Security Services.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vendor Relations: Manage relationships and contracts with key IT vendors, service providers, and consultants, ensuring cost-effectiveness and high service quality.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Skills you’ll bring</strong></span></p>
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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience: 8-10 years of progressive experience in Information Technology, Infrastructure Management, or Corporate IT Security. Demonstrated experience managing scalable IT infrastructure and security programs within a SaaS company is highly preferred.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Management Experience: 3-5 years of experience successfully managing and leading a technical team, preferably in a global environment.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Empathy: Your role is to help enable employees to perform in their jobs by providing an optimal work environment. A customer-service mindset with a focus on delivering high-quality user experiences is critical to this role.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Technical Expertise: Proven experience in operating and managing security, automation technology, and automation programs, including experience in configuring, deploying, and leading:</span>
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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Implementation and governance of cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) and identity provider (IdP), including Okta, Google Workspace, SSO, SAML, and SCIM across enterprise environments.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mobile Device Management systems (MDM), such as Jamf, Kandji, Microsoft Intune.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Administration of core enterprise SaaS platforms (e.g., Google Workspace, Atlassian), including provisioning automations and integration workflows.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">IT assets including endpoints, office networking, and A/V conferencing systems.</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Project Management: Demonstrated ability to own and deliver complex, cross-functional IT projects (e.g., new system implementations, office build-outs, etc.).</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Financial Acumen: Experience with budget planning, forecasting, and expense management.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Relevant certifications (e.g., PMP, ITIL, CISSP, CompTIA Security+) are a plus.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical issues to non-technical stakeholders.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong problem-solving and analytical capabilities.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Passion for solving complex problems through technology (e.g., automation, AI) to minimize manual processes and improve efficiency.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Proven ability to manage stress and ambiguity in a fast-paced, global setting.</span></li>
</ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Why Join Dialpad</strong></span></p>
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<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Work at the center of the AI transformation in business communications</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Build and ship agentic AI products that are redefining how companies operate</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Join a team where AI amplifies every employee’s impact</span></li>
<li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and real opportunities for growth</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We believe in investing in our people. Dialpad offers competitive benefits and perks, cutting-edge AI tools, and a robust training program that help you reach your full potential. We have designed our offices to be inclusive, offering a vibrant environment to cultivate collaboration and connection. Our exceptional culture, repeatedly recognized as a <a href="https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7007999#:~:text=91%25%20of%20employees%20at%20Dialpad,a%20typical%20U.S.-based%20company.&text=Source:%20Great%20Place%20To%20Work%C2%AE%202021%20Global%20Employee%20Engagement%20Study.&text=When%20you%20join%20the%20company,%20you%20are%20made%20to%20feel%20welcome.&text=People%20here%20are%20given%20a%20lot%20of%20responsibility">Great Place to Work</a>, ensures that every employee feels valued and empowered to contribute to our collective success.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role and possess the fundamental traits, drive, and strong ambition we seek, but your experience doesn’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><em> </em><em>Dialpad is an equal-opportunity employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment.</em></span></p></div>
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