Director of Information Technology

Director Of ItFounded in 1945, Keystone Technologies is a third-generation, family-owned business headquartered in the Greater Philadelphia area. A national leader in the commercial and industrial lighting industry, Keystone reaches customers across the U.S. with its mission of "Light Made Easy."We're not your typical lighting company and we like it that way. At Keystone, we move fast, think big, and challenge the status quo to deliver on our promise of Light Made Easy. Our team thrives on new ideas, supports one another, aims high, works hard, and laughs often. And we always put people first whether that's our customers, partners, or each other. If you're passionate about growing, collaborating, and making a difference, you'll feel right at home here.Our core values include wowing customers, growing passionately, doing right, valuing people, and challenging convention.Our benefits include medical, dental, vision, voluntary life insurance, employer-paid group life insurance, short-term disability, a 401k plan with company match, paid time off, and philanthropic opportunities.The opportunity: The director of IT is responsible for owning, operating, and continuously improving the company's core technology environment, including infrastructure, cybersecurity, and enterprise applications.Your impact includes ensuring the reliability, security, and resilience of all core systems, infrastructure, and data supporting daily business operations; owning enterprise applications, including ERP, CRM, data platforms, and productivity tools; leading enterprise cybersecurity, risk management, incident response, and business continuity, including disaster recovery; translating evolving business priorities into practical IT solutions and execution plans; enabling the use of technology, data, and automation to improve efficiency and scalability; serving as a hands-on technical leader, directly contributing to system design, troubleshooting, and implementation as needed; managing and developing internal IT staff and external vendors, setting clear priorities, expectations, and accountability; owning IT financial management, vendor relationships, and governance to ensure cost-effective, compliant, and value-driven decisions; acting as a trusted advisor to business leaders, clearly communicating risks, tradeoffs, and progress in plain language; and other duties as assigned.What you bring includes a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant field; experience leading and operating enterprise IT functions or systems; prior accountability for technology environments supporting core business operations; experience managing and developing small teams and/or external service providers; demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a hands-on leadership role; proven experience operating mission-critical enterprise technology environments with strong standards for reliability and security; hands-on experience with enterprise systems and platforms, not solely oversight or strategy; strong systems and architectural thinking, including sound judgment around build-vs-buy decisions; demonstrated ability to partner with business teams to support analytics, automation, and process improvement initiatives; experience leading and executing cross-functional technology initiatives with multiple stakeholders; ability to operate independently, seek external expertise when needed, and make sound technical decisions without day-to-day technical oversight; competence with project management, inclusive of internal and external team members; strong vendor, financial, and governance acumen, balancing agility with discipline and risk management; uphold and implement Keystone's core values, consistently aligning actions and decisions that reflect the core principles; and experience with enterprise productivity and collaboration platforms, ERP platforms supporting manufacturing and distribution operations, CRM platforms, relational database platforms and data management tools, cloud infrastructure and platform services, enterprise networking and security technologies, and IT service management and ticketing platforms.Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies.