Senior Manager, Global IT Operations

Strength in Trust OneTrust’s mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn’t slow teams down—it should accelerate what’s possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like. OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society. The Challenge OneTrust is seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Global IT Operations to lead and scale our worldwide IT Operations organization and help define the next generation of employee technology services. Reporting to the Sr. Director, IT this role is the primary global leader accountable for IT Operations performance, service delivery excellence, employee technology experience, and operational outcomes across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. This leader will evolve IT Operations from a primarily reactive support model toward a data-driven, automation-first, and increasingly agentic operating model. The role will combine strong operational discipline with practical application of AI, analytics, and workflow automation; including capabilities that can retrieve knowledge, diagnose issues, orchestrate approved actions, and resolve common requests with appropriate human oversight. The ideal candidate is a forward-thinking operator and people leader who can modernize support organizations, challenge legacy processes, build secure and governed AI-enabled services, and translate emerging technology into measurable improvements for employees and the business. Your Mission Core Responsibilities • Lead and develop a globally distributed IT Operations organization supporting employees across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, with accountability for Service Desk, Tier 1–3 Support, Executive/VIP Support, End User Computing, Endpoint Management, and related workplace operations. • Own global service accountability while establishing clear regional operating responsibilities, decision rights, escalation paths, service standards, and performance expectations. • Design and implement a metrics-based operating model focused on service quality, operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, employee experience, resilience, and continuous improvement. • Own and continuously improve key performance indicators such as SLA attainment, MTTR, First Contact Resolution, backlog health, escalation rates, CSAT, employee experience, endpoint compliance, service reliability, automation adoption, and ticket deflection. • Develop executive dashboards, reporting, and operational scorecards that provide clear visibility into performance, trends, risks, investment needs, and opportunities for improvement. • Define and execute a multi-year roadmap for AI-enabled and agentic IT Operations using capabilities such as Microsoft Copilot, Glean, automation platforms, analytics, virtual agents, and workflow orchestration. • Identify and prioritize high-volume, repeatable processes suitable for autonomous or semi-autonomous execution, including onboarding, offboarding, access requests, software fulfillment, device remediation, incident triage, knowledge retrieval, and incident resolution. • Lead incident management, problem management, root-cause analysis, knowledge management, service continuity, and service improvement ini