Director of IT Services

The Role

The Director of IT Services is the most senior IT support leader at Soho House & Co, with global accountability for the technology experience across our 45+ Houses, Soho Works, Retail, Ned Club, and IHDB brands. This is fundamentally an operational IT role — making sure our IT is up and running, all the time, everywhere. The Director leads a global support team, but the mindset is 24/7: senior leadership combined with hands-on ownership where it matters, owning operations, support, and incident management end-to-end, and answering for service performance across every site, every day.

It is a high-visibility role that depends on strong collaboration across Operations, Finance, HR, and the wider business. Reporting to the Chief Digital & Technology Officer, the Director sits within the Digital leadership team alongside the leads for AI, Data, Engineering, Product, and Security — a department that drives cutting-edge work across AI, Data, Digital, and IT. The business continues to use modern technology, including automation, generative AI, and agentic AI, to improve operations and enhance both member experience and operational efficiency, and this role plays a critical part in supporting that business and technology transformation.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead, develop, and manage the technology operations team, including employees and contractors, setting clear objectives, driving performance, and building a member-first service culture.
• Own the Managed Service Provider relationship, including SLAs, regular service reviews, and continuous improvement across all support tiers.
• Drive continuous improvement in global technology support quality, BAU service performance, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Lead and coordinate small projects, service enhancements, and tactical technology improvements across existing physical sites.
• Support technology readiness for new House openings and refurbishments by coordinating requirements with Infrastructure, IHDB, and other stakeholders.
• Partner with HR and the Group CDTO to attract, assess, and onboard technology talent globally.
• Own PCI-DSS operational compliance across relevant systems and locations, including annual assessments, QSA relationships, remediation programmes, and ongoing controls governance.
• Own the full technology estate, including front-office systems such as PMS, POS, F&B reservations, access control, and guest WiFi, and back-office systems including HCM, Finance, and ERP Fusion.
• Own operational support and incident management for the whole estate, and drive BAU delivery of enhancements for all Hospitality, HR, and Finance systems. (Major programme delivery sits with the Special Programmes Delivery team.)
• Manage all technology vendor relationships and commercial agreements, critically evaluate AI-embedded vendor roadmaps, and ensure effective licensing and cost control.
• Ensure all systems comply with internal policies, including cybersecurity, GDPR, SOC monitoring, incident response, PCI-DSS, and ISO 27001 across all global locations.
• Own and manage the IT budget, including software licensing, MSP costs, project spend, and team resource.
• Full ownership of the IT Services budget, including software licensing, MSP costs, project spend, and team resource.
• Responsible for annual budget planning, monthly reforecasting, and presenting investment cases to the Group CDTO and ExCo.
• Expected to drive cost efficiency through rigorous vendor negotiation and technology rationalisation.