

Industry: Professional Services
Company Size: 5,001-10,000 employees

Highspring

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**At a Minimum, You Will Have**

- 4+ years of Big 4 or professional services experience.

- Technology consulting experience in IT Due Diligence, IT M&A consulting, or IT strategy in the context of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures

- Experience with the IT M&A transaction lifecycle, including 100-day planning, performance improvement, and organization development.

- Technology consulting experience migrating legacy Microsoft on-premises systems, such as Active Directory, Exchange, and SharePoint, to Azure AD and Microsoft 365.

- Experience with IT activities related to infrastructure, networking, communications, productivity, security, and service management.

- Experience designing enterprise technology architecture across various industries, including consolidating network, infrastructure, cyber, data, and application design and decisions for new companies.

- One or more of the following certifications: Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft 365 Security Administrator Associate, Azure Administrator Associate. Relevant certifications such as CISA, CISSP, PMP, or ITIL

- Flexibility to travel up to 25%.

**Preferably, You Will Have**

- Bachelor’s degree in information technology or computer science.

- Experience developing management reporting, metrics, and formats to monitor and manage value creation initiatives.

- Experience developing and executing on a technology integration playbook for new acquisitions.

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law, Highspring believes that the following salary range reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure to be between the range below. The individual may also be eligible for a variety of bonus and financial incentives based on individual and company performance.

Base Compensation Range

$116,554—$196,081 USD

**Transform Your Career**

We deliver unparalleled opportunities for growth and career advancement. Our dynamic, entrepreneurial culture supports your journey every step of the way.

Embrace new challenges and deliver real value to some of the world’s most influential Fortune 100 brands, growth companies transforming their industries, and mid-market firms that need help navigating the defining moments of their lifecycle. Work side by side with business leaders to solve complex client challenges and make a true impact. Love what you do as part of a diverse organization committed to collaboration and continuous learning.

**The Team – Private Equity -Technology Advisory**

Join a team of talented professionals with deep business and technology transformation experience and guide Private Equity firms and their portfolio companies through major transformational challenges, carveouts, due diligence, new system implementations, and strategic corporate realignments. Our team provides IT strategy & operations, portfolio, program and project management, in the context of mergers and acquisitions.

**You Are**

- You have led and executed IT Due Diligence engagements for M&A transactions, evaluating IT infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity, and IT operations. You have designed and executed IT separation strategies, ensuring minimal business disruption.

- You have experience defining Transitional Services Agreements (TSAs), outlining IT services to be provided post-transaction. You have developed IT separation roadmaps, including application migration, infrastructure transition, and data partitioning.

- You have worked extensively and hands-on with Microsoft Cloud technology, including Microsoft 365 and Azure. You’ve migrated legacy Microsoft on-premises systems, such as Active Directory, Exchange, and SharePoint, to Azure AD and Microsoft 365. You’ve implemented Microsoft Teams and deployed Intune endpoint management. Your experience includes the consolidation of cloud tenants with native and third-party tools, and you have implemented Microsoft’s identity and security features.

- Someone who knows how to lead and deliver, driven by seamless project execution. You’re not only concerned with the success of the project, but you’re building positive relationships with clients along the way. You’re leading their expectations and ensuring the standard of work is in line with promises made. There are a lot of moving pieces, but you’ve got the work ethic to stay on top of it all.

- You are a team-builder and problem-solver. You stay updated on new products and technologies. You know how to use technology and applications to creatively design, prototype, and implement solutions for your client’s unique challenges. You communicate and collaborate effectively to both internal and external team members. You are constantly looking for ways to implement best practices. If there’s a new way to do something that improves outcomes for clients, you’ll find it.

**Your Impact**

- Manage and lead technology assessments/IT due diligence projects supporting both commercial and private equity clients in support of carve-outs, mergers, or post-close execution management.

- Work with stakeholder management and business teams to maintain business continuity during ongoing IT platform mergers.

- Assume a key IT role throughout the entire M&A deal process and ensure timely delivery of IT M&A projects.

- Analyze IT costs, identify cost synergies that may arise from deals, and identify IT risks and mitigation plans.

- Drive the development and/or enhancement of IT M&A methodologies (diligence, planning, carve-outs).

- Articulate the quality and performance of your client’s IT environment, including their technical security posture.

- Enable client collaboration and communication through deployment and adoption of Microsoft 365.

- Modernize legacy technology and datacenter operations through Azure and cloud migration.

- Secure client technology using modern Microsoft security and identity features

- Manage and lead technology assessments/IT due diligence projects supporting both commercial and private equity clients.

- Lead large, complex projects through the project life cycle, including requirements definition, planning, development, testing, training, operational readiness, change management and ongoing support.

- Embrace Highspring’s client service approach and manage client relationships to ensure that high-quality and high-value services are provided to achieve clients’ objectives.

**Leadership Expectations**

- Our expectation is that you would have prior experience in technology consulting and implementation project work, and the ability to lead, guide, coach, and mentor teams

- Actively participate in career development activities and technical training of staff

Manager, Technology Advisory – IT M&A and Private Equity

PawMetric combines behavioral science, real-world data, and AI to predict dog selection success — matching every puppy to its purpose. Our platform helps breeders, trainers, and mission teams make confident, evidence-based decisions that improve outcomes and strengthen every dog-handler partnership.

We believe great dogs start with the right puppy—but selecting that puppy remains one of the most uncertain and costly decisions in the process. From guide and assistance dogs to other working dogs such as police, military and hunting dogs, each puppy can cost over $100,000 to breed, raise, and train — and still, up to 75% never graduate. Even for companion animals, the impact of a poor match carries significant financial and emotional costs for families.

PawMetric changes that. Built on years of working dog expertise and research in canine behavior, our AI-driven platform delivers predictive insights into temperament and potential — helping identify the right role for each dog earlier and more accurately than ever before.

Where current practice often relies on instinct, we bring evidence.
Where uncertainty exists, we provide clarity.
Because every dog deserves to succeed in the role it was born to fulfill.

Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Company Size: 2-10 employees

PawMetric

**Vice President, Hardware & Software Engineering **

**PawMetric · Raleigh–Durham, NC **

**Company Description **

PawMetric is commercializing AI-driven biometric assessment technology for working dogs — guide dogs, military working dogs, and police K9 units. Our system uses a sensor-equipped harness and proprietary AI algorithms to predict temperament and suitability with a precision that has never existed before. The technology was developed at NC State University and is backed by data from ~2,000 puppies. We are at TRL 5 — proven in the field, ready to harden for commercial scale.

**The Role **

The Vice President, Hardware & Software Engineering will report to the CEO and will be responsible for:

- Hardware platform development strategy

- Software architecture and system integration

- Engineering architecture decisions

- Selection and management of contract engineering partners

This is a hands-on technical leadership role suited for someone who has previously brought integrated hardware-software products from prototype to market.

**Hardware & Supply Chain **

- Assess the current harness and sensor system and define exactly what 'production-ready' means

- Identify and qualify a domestic contract manufacturer for ruggedized harnesses (ITAR-compliant supply chain required for our DoD market path)

- Identify, vet, down select and engage a harness manufacturer

- Identify and engage strategic manufacturing partners — companies in adjacent industries who see PawMetric as a non-competitive opportunity to extend their product line, supply chain, or customer base

**Software & Data Systems **

- The current field software is a research-grade patchwork. It needs to become a clean, user-friendly tablet or phone-based interface — likely browser-based

- Data flows from harness to laptop to cloud for AI processing. We need someone who understands this edge-to-cloud architecture and can direct the redesign with outsourced development partners

- Identify and manage contract software development firms to execute the UI overhaul and backend hardening — we are not building an internal dev team

**Product & Commercial Readiness **

- Validate existing cost estimates and 6-month delivery timeline — then own them

- Build COGS, operational cost, and time-to-delivery models that can support fundraising

- Manage delivery and setup with initial paying customers across the guide and assistance dog market, followed by field trials across military working and police dog markets

**Who You Are **

- A seasoned operator who has taken a hardware-software product from late-stage prototype to commercial production — you know what this actually takes

- Technically credible across systems, product management, and supply chain — you don't need to write the code or solder the board, but you can evaluate the people who do

- Experienced with outsourced manufacturing and contract development — you know how to find, qualify, and manage external partners

- Comfortable with edge computing concepts and mobile-first software architecture

- Entrepreneurial enough to think beyond the immediate task — can you find a contract manufacturer who becomes a long-term strategic partner? That kind of thinking matters here

- Located within driving distance of NC State University in Raleigh, NC — face time with our research team and grad students is essential at this stage

**Compensation **

Equity only at this stage. Zero salary until funded. The equity offer will reflect the nature of this role. We are direct about the risk — and about the upside if we execute.

**If the mission resonates, and you have done this before, we want to hear from you. **

Vice President, Hardware & Software Engineering

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