Vice President Technology Practices & Innovation

Republic Services•Phoenix, AZ

About The Position

POSITION SUMMARY: The Vice President of Technology Practices & Innovation provides executive leadership for the establishment and operation of core technical practice areas across the IT organization, including Enterprise Architecture, Engineering, Solution Services, and Innovation. This role leads practice leaders and teams to define standards, operating models, and capabilities that accelerate enterprise transformation. Rather than owning solution delivery directly, this role builds and empowers high-performing practice organizations that equip IT and business teams to move faster with confidence. By balancing clear standards and guardrails with enablement and autonomy, this role ensures technology practices improve speed, quality, scalability, and reuse while cultivating technical capability and innovation both within and beyond IT. ABOUT THE COMPANY Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG) is a leader in the environmental services industry. We provide customers with the most complete set of products and services, including recycling, waste, special waste, hazardous waste and field services. Our industry-leading commitments to advance circularity and support decarbonization are helping deliver on our vision to partner with customers to create a more sustainable world. In 2023, Republic’s total company revenue was $14.9 billion, and adjusted EBITDA was $4.4 billion. We serve 13 million customers and operate more than 1,000 locations, including collection and transfer stations, recycling and polymer centers, treatment facilities, and landfills. Although we operate across North America, the collection, recycling, treatment, or disposal of materials is a local business, and the dynamics and opportunities differ in each market we serve. By combining local operational management with standardized business practices, we drive greater operating efficiencies across the company while maintaining day-to-day operational decisions at the local level, closest to the customer. Our customers, including small businesses, major corporations and municipalities, want a partner with the expertise and capabilities to effectively manage their multiple recycling and waste streams. They choose Republic Services because we are committed to exceeding their expectations and helping them achieve their sustainability goals. Our 41,000 team members understand that it's not just what we do that matters, but how we do it. Our company values guide our daily actions: Safe: We protect the livelihoods of our colleagues and communities. Committed to Serve: We go above and beyond to exceed our customers’ expectations. Environmentally Responsible: We take action to improve our environment. Driven: We deliver results in the right way. Human-Centered: We respect the dignity and unique potential of every person. We are proud of our high employee engagement score of 86. We have an inclusive and diverse culture where every voice counts. In addition, our team positively impacted 4.6 million people in 2023 through the Republic Services Charitable Foundation and local community grants. These projects are designed to meet the specific needs of the communities we serve, with a focus on building sustainable neighborhoods. STRATEGY Republic Services’ strategy is designed to generate profitable growth. Through acquisitions and industry advancements, we safely and sustainably manage our customers’ multiple waste streams through a North American footprint of vertically integrated assets. We focus on three areas of growth to meet the increasing needs of our customers: recycling and waste, environmental solutions and sustainability innovation. With our integrated approach, strengthening our position in one area advances other areas of our business. For example, as we grow volume in recycling and waste, we collect additional material to bolster our circularity capabilities. And as we expand environmental solutions, we drive additional opportunities to provide these services to our existing recycling and waste customers. Recycling and Waste We continue to expand our recycling and waste business footprint throughout North America through organic growth and targeted acquisitions. The 13 million customers we serve and our more than 5 million pick-ups per day provide us with a distinct advantage. We aggregate materials at scale, unlocking new opportunities for advanced recycling. In addition, we are cross-selling new products and services to better meet our customers’ specific needs. Environmental Solutions Our comprehensive environmental solutions capabilities help customers safely manage their most technical waste streams. We are expanding both our capabilities and our geographic footprint. We see strong growth opportunities for our offerings, including PFAS remediation, an increasing customer need. SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION Republic’s recent innovations to advance circularity and decarbonization demonstrate our unique ability to leverage sustainability as a platform for growth. The Republic Services Polymer Center is the nation’s first integrated plastics recycling facility. This innovative site processes rigid plastics from our recycling centers, producing recycled materials that promote true bottle-to-bottle circularity. We also formed Blue Polymers, a joint venture with Ravago, to develop facilities that will further process plastic material from our Polymer Centers to help meet the growing demand for sustainable packaging. We are building a network of Polymer Centers and Blue Polymer facilities across North America. We continue to advance decarbonization at our landfills. As demand for renewable energy continues to grow, we have 70 landfill gas-to-energy projects in operation and plan to expand our portfolio to 115 projects by 2028. RECENT RECOGNITION Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies CDP Discloser Dow Jones Sustainability Indices Ethisphere’s World’s Most Ethical Companies Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies Great Place to Work Sustainability Yearbook S&P Global Why Work With Us Republic Services is a place where your effort is always appreciated and your teammates always have your back. When you give us your best, we give you ours. We’re constantly investing in new tools and technology that allow you to do your job safely and effectively. We offer plenty of opportunities to learn and grow within your role. And when we say “Sustainability in Action,” we mean it. Together, we’re leaving the world better than we found it through the work we do every day. Are you in? Keep reading to learn more about the position we’re hiring for.

Requirements

15 years of progressive experience in senior technology leadership roles.
Experience establishing and operating enterprise-wide technology practice areas (e.g. architecture, engineering, solution services, innovation) across multiple teams, portfolios, or business units.
Demonstrated success building standards, operating models, and governance mechanisms that scale across large enterprises while still enabling speed and autonomy.
Proven ability to enable technology and innovation outside of IT, including the use of platforms, guardrails, self-service models, and business-facing technical enablement.
Experience operating at the executive level, partnering with C-suite and senior business leaders to shape strategy, influence investment decisions, and align technology capabilities to business outcomes.
Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in IT leadership roles.

Responsibilities

Technology Practice Leadership & Operating Model Provides executive leadership for enterprise-wide technology practice areas, leading a group of practice leaders and communities of practice.
Defines the vision, scope, success measures, and operating model for each practice area in alignment with business strategy.
Ensures standards, principles, and patterns are established, maintained, and adopted through teams.
Holds practice leaders accountable for outcomes while enabling flexibility in how teams apply standards to meet business needs.
Evolves IT from a delivery-centric organization to a capability and enablement-focused organization.
Architecture & Engineering Practices Leads the architecture and engineering practices through designated leaders to ensure consistent, scalable, and intentional technology decisions.
Ensures teams establish and maintain enterprise architecture principles, reference architectures, and design patterns.
Sets expectations for modern engineering practices and ensures teams have the tools, skills, and guidance to apply them.
Oversees architectural governance models that enable swift, high-quality decision-making rather than slowing delivery.
Ensures alignment across architecture, engineering, infrastructure, security, and delivery teams.
Solution Services Practice Provides leadership for the solution services practice, ensuring teams standardize approaches to discovery, requirements, and value definition.
Ensures Solution Services teams are positioned to work closely with business partners, product teams, and delivery teams by providing the teams with the appropriate tools, training, and frameworks.
Drives consistency in how opportunities are framed, problems are understood, and outcomes are measured.
Enables solution service capability to scale beyond IT by establishing shared methods, training, and guardrails.
Innovation & Enablement Leads the innovation practice through teams responsible for experimentation, learning, and capability enablement.
Ensures innovation activities are structured, intentional, and connected to real business opportunities.
Establishes platforms, patterns, and self-service capabilities that allow innovation and technical work to occur safely outside of IT.
Partners with business leaders to increase technical fluency and confidence across the organization.
Ensures emerging technologies are evaluated and piloted through disciplined, team-led processes.
Transformation & Change Leadership Acts as an executive sponsor to evolve how technology work is structured, governed, and executed.
Leads leaders and teams through shifts toward product-centric, platform-based, and agile ways of working.
Ensures practice maturity translates into measurable improvements in speed, quality, risk reduction, and business outcomes.
Communicates to executive leadership progress, tradeoffs, and impacts.
Talent, Leadership, & Capability Development Builds and leads a leadership team of practice owners and managers.
Ensures clear role definitions, career paths, and skill expectations exist within each practice area.
Invests in communities of practice that encourage collaboration, learning, and shared ownership.
Develops future technical and people leaders through coaching, mentorship, and succession planning.
Governance, Risk, & Alignment Ensures practice standards align with enterprise security, risk, and compliance requirements.
Partners with delivery, infrastructure, and security leaders to ensure cohesive execution across IT.
Provides executive-level guidance on technology capability investments and tradeoffs.
Other job-related duties as assigned or apparent.