Head of IT

WHO ARE WE? Launch Potato is the discovery and conversion company. We reach tens of millions of people every month through our brands, including FinanceBuzz , All About Cookies , and OnlyInYourState . We turn that attention into real outcomes for our partners, some of the world's leading companies. Our mission: create predictable, high-value customer acquisition at scale by connecting discovery, intent, and performance across category-leading consumer brands in finance, travel, and entertainment. We run profitable and bootstrapped, with a South Florida HQ and a remote-first team across 18 countries. WHY JOIN US? You own outcomes here, not tasks. We measure work by impact, not activity. The pace is real, and change is constant, so the people who do best turn change into opportunity instead of waiting for it to settle. Feedback runs direct and lands with respect. Ordinary people make themselves extraordinary at Launch Potato. The opportunity, and the honest trade This is a greenfield build. You will stand up, centralize, and own Launch Potato's internal IT function, and you will decide the operating model the company scales around. The upside is rare: full ownership, direct line to senior leadership, and the chance to design the systems a 200-person global company. Here is the trade, stated plainly. We are lean and we move fast. You will not inherit mature processes or a large team to delegate to. You will assess an ambiguous environment, set priorities yourself, and personally drive implementation, not just define strategy. The people who do well here turn that ambiguity into leverage. Why this seat Real ownership. You own the function end to end: Google Workspace, identity and access, employee lifecycle, SaaS, assets, vendors, procurement, budgeting, and compliance support. Not a slice of it. Executive visibility. You partner directly with the founders and senior leaders and take administrative IT load off their plate. Your recommendations get heard and acted on. Build, do not maintain. You define the standards, controls, and documentation from the ground up and set the roadmap for systems, vendors, and future staffing. Compliance that matters. You help advance our SOC 2 Type II work and build the foundation for future SOX-readiness, shaping how the company governs risk as it grows. What you'll bring Hands-on, company-wide ownership of Google Workspace as an organizational platform: user lifecycle, org structure, admin roles, security controls, audit logs, application access, and third-party integrations. Not end-user support alone. Experience building or leading Corporate IT, Business Technology, Workplace Technology, or IT Operations inside a startup, scale-up, or similarly fast-moving company where systems and documentation were still being built. End-to-end ownership of onboarding, role changes, and offboarding across the HRIS, Google Workspace, identity platforms, endpoint tools, and core SaaS. Strong identity and access management: SSO, SAML, SCIM, MFA, role-based access, least privilege, and privileged-access governance. Experience creating scalable processes, controls, policies, and documentation that support SOC 2 Type II, SOX-readiness, or comparable audit requirements. Ownership of vendors, contracts, renewals, licensing, utilization, hardware and software procurement, departmental budgeting, and forecasting. Full-lifecycle device and asset management: procurement, provisioning, inventory, assignment, recovery, replacement, and retirement. The judgment to evaluate integration and automation opportunities across HRIS, identity, Google Workspace, and SaaS. Strong executive communication, project management, prioritization, and the ability to build trust across teams. The ability to operate independently, create structure in ambiguity, and stay close to execution without a large internal team. Background in AdTech, digital media, SaaS, digital publishing, ecommerce, fintech, healthtech, or a broader technology company…