Life360
Director, IT
Remote, USA · Director
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About the role
- Life360's IT team exists to enable our 500+ remote-first employees to be equipped, productive, and secure, wherever they're working from.
- This opportunity will allow you to reimagine how IT operates in an AI Native environment and bring an engineering mindset to how the function runs: structured, automated, and metrics-driven.
- This is a role for someone who wants to take an IT function to its next stage of maturity, not just keep it running as-is.
Responsibilities
- Own the strategy and execution of Life360's core IT Operations & Engineering teams including enterprise identity, endpoint management, network infrastructure, collaboration, and end user services
- Drive the technical roadmap and transparency programs to provide leadership clear visibility into IT quality, risks, and investments
- Lead, hire, and grow a high-performing IT team, raising the bar toward an engineering first skillset and standing up new IT engineering roles as the function scales
- Partner with the CISO and Information Security to ensure every service and process meets our safety standards
- Identify and implement AI Native tools and automation that improve internal productivity and employee workflows, in line with Life360's broader AI Native transformation
- Own IT vendor relationships, contract negotiations, and budget planning, partnering with Finance and Procurement
- Our company's mission-driven culture is guided by our shared values to create a trusted work environment where you can bring your authentic self to work and make a positive difference
- Members Before Metrics - We focus on building an exceptional experience for families.
Requirements
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in IT, including at least 7-8 years in a senior leadership role directing multiple teams or functions
- Experience embedding AI tools and automation into IT operations and employee productivity workflows
- Experience owning budgets, vendor relationships, and procurement decisions
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience
Nice to have
- Preferred Experience
Skills
- Employees experience IT as a real productivity advantage: fast, reliable tools and a technical experience they're glad to have.
Compensation
- The US-based salary range for this position is $167,000 to $245,000.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for employees)
- Paid parental leave
- Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well-being
- Generous time off: flexible PTO, companywide holidays throughout the year plus summer and winter shutdowns
- Learning & Development programs
- Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment
Company info
- That means owning the identity, endpoint, infrastructure, and collaboration experience end to end, and treating the services it owns as a product.
- IT reports to our CISO and sits right next to Information Security, and the two teams work as true partners with decisions made together, not thrown over a wall.
- That partnership matters even more as
- Life360 leans further into an AI Native way of working:
- shaping what that looks like day to day means working closely with other key partners like People, Finance, and Legal, not building in isolation.
- About the Job
- We're hiring a Director of IT to own IT Operations and IT Engineering end to end; enterprise identity, endpoint management, corporate infrastructure, collaboration tooling, and the service model our distributed workforce depends on.
- This opportunity will allow you to reimagine how IT operates in an
- AI Native environment and bring an engineering mindset to how the function runs:
- structured, automated, and metrics-driven.
- You'll have the agency and runway to set the strategy, build the playbooks, and lead the team to the next level.
- The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader who has scaled IT operations and engineering in high growth environments, carries strong engineering principles, and can operate with a safety first mindset.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Serve as escalation point and executive sponsor for major IT incidents, migrations, and large-scale initiatives
This listing is sourced directly from Life360's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.