Launching the search for our CIO in Residence

From driving complex AI initiatives and powering hyper-personalization, to ensuring robust global customer experiences, the most successful companies are integrating strategic IT modernization with data privacy to build real-time permissioning layers that fuel trusted growth.

That’s why today, we’re starting our search for our Chief Information Officer (CIO) in Residence. This critical position will sit alongside our Field Chief Privacy Officer and CISO In Residence, completing an integrated executive "pod" to help guide enterprise IT leaders as security, compliance, and core data strategy move closer and closer together.

Importantly, this role requires zero dedicated privacy experience. We’re seeking an experienced enterprise technology leader to serve as the third leg of our strategic privacy, security, and IT field leadership team, guiding the industry within a rapidly changing data landscape.

Why a CIO in Residence, and why now?

Over the past year, we’ve seen businesses moving quickly on critical IT and data questions: Can we scale this new AI platform securely? How do we ensure data integrity across our disparate systems? Can we launch this new customer experience compliantly and at speed? Alongside this, we’ve watched real-time consent and preference management rapidly evolve from a legal compliance task into a central component of AI-driven growth and robust IT architecture strategy.

To meet this demand, growth-minded companies are strategically re-architecting their initiatives and systems, including by ensuring real-time permissioning and compliance are embedded to better orient IT and compliance alongside strategic growth initiatives.

But we also know this isn’t yet the status quo for every organization. We often hear from privacy leaders who are still struggling to forge this partnership with IT, marketing, or product teams, or perhaps feel ill-equipped to tie projects to board-level KPIs.

We also hear directly from IT, product, and marketing leaders who are under intense pressure to deliver, and are frustrated by (and actively replacing!) their existing legacy consent and preference tools.

Our vision is for our CIO in Residence program to be on our team, and the industry’s go-to resource, to help foster this crucial partnership between business innovation and robust, compliant IT infrastructure. Because we know that now more than ever, integrated privacy can help unlock trusted growth through AI, personalized experiences, and enterprise-wide data velocity.

What is the CIO in Residence?

Modeled after our successful CISO in Residence program, the CIO in Residence is a short-term, high-impact collaboration designed to connect the executives shaping enterprise IT strategy with the privacy and data infrastructure powering it.

Our CIO in Residence will:

• Engage with enterprise CIOs, CTOs, Chief Data Officers, and Heads of Enterprise Architecture as a peer voice—sharing lessons from the field and helping guide strategy on integrating real-time permissioning into core IT systems, cloud data strategies, and AI/ML platforms.
• Elevate the conversation of permissioning layers (e.g., consent and preference management) as critical enablers of data infrastructure modernization, AI readiness, and enterprise risk management—not just compliance.
• Co-create thought leadership content to the enterprise IT community on best-in-class principles for privacy-by-design and advise the Transcend community on emerging digital and marketing transformation trends from an architectural perspective.
  

Who we’re looking for

This is a high-impact role for a former or current Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chief Data Officer (CDO), or VP of Enterprise Architecture at a company that has driven large-scale IT and digital transformations, especially in regulated or data-rich industries like financial services, healthcare, consumer tech, or enterprise SaaS.

We’re particularly looking for someone who has:

• Led enterprise-scale efforts to modernize IT infrastructure or re-architect core data platforms.
• Pioneered groundbreaking innovations in enterprise data management, AI enablement, or secure cloud strategies.

The ideal candidate has operated at the executive table within Fortune 500 companies and seen what it takes to earn trust, scale growth, and move fast without breaking governance.

If this is you, you can find more information on the job posting here.

This program reflects our continued investment in the Transcend community, connecting you with seasoned leaders who’ve been in your shoes and who can help chart a path to what’s next.

Stay tuned as we fill this incredible seat!

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