Acuity Brands, Inc

Director GTM Technology

Acuity Brands, Inc$173K — $312K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in B2B or B2B2B GTM and technology leadership.
  • Proven experience in integrating technology with business processes and customer/partner experience improvements.
  • Hands-on knowledge of CRM and CPQ solutions, with a preference for Salesforce and Oracle ERP systems.
  • Demonstrated use of AI to enhance enterprise software development and integration.
  • Experience leading small, agile teams and managing vendor relationships effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategy and architecture of Acuity's GTM technology platform.
  • Oversee the entire GTM platform lifecycle, from seller experience to data integration.
  • Establish a structured process for design, pilot, scale, and measurement of GTM improvements.
  • Make architectural decisions across technology stacks while ensuring adaptability and scalability.
  • Utilize AI as both a developmental tool and to enhance partner and customer interactions.
  • Build and manage a high-performance team bringing together technical and functional expertise.
  • Collaborate with sales and channel leaders to align GTM outcomes across metrics.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health care coverage.
  • Dental and vision insurance plans.
  • 401K retirement benefits.
  • Commission and incentive compensation opportunities.
Full Job Description


Work location:
  • This position may be based anywhere in the United States and includes travel as part of the responsibilities.


Job Summary

Acuity is investing in the technology platform that powers our go-to-market motion - how we sell through and with our channel partners, system integrators, agents, and end customers. We are seeking a Director, GTM Technology to lead the strategy, architecture, and execution of this platform end-to-end, working in close partnership with Sales, Channel, Operations, Finance, and Technology leadership.

This role is for a techno-functional leader who has lived in between business and technology - someone who deeply understands GTM business processes, the partner and customer experience, and the daily reality of selling in a B2B or B2B2B technology business, and who has earned the technical depth to build the systems that make those motions actually work (and increasingly to leverage AI as both a force multiplier and a way of building).

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

  • Lead with Deep Understanding of GTM Business Processes and the Customer Experience: Build and maintain a working command of how Acuity sells - the channel motion, partner journey, agent and system integrator dynamics, quote-to-order workflow, and seller daily reality.
  • Own the GTM Technology Platform End-to-End: Lead the strategy, architecture, and roadmap for Acuity's GTM technology platform, spanning the seller experience, partner and customer experience, quote-to-order, and the data and integration layers that connect them. Ensure the platform is scalable, integrated, AI-ready, and aligned to commercial outcomes.
  • Build the Operating Motion: Establish and run a disciplined cadence of design, pilot, learn, scale, and measure - identifying the highest-impact friction in the GTM motion every cycle, shipping focused improvements, and compounding outcomes over time.
  • Architect for Today and Tomorrow: Make sound architectural choices across our GTM stack - including Salesforce (Sales Cloud, CPQ, Experience Cloud), Oracle ERP, and our data platforms - while remaining platform-agnostic where the right answer is something different. Design for clean data models, sound integration patterns, and the ability to swap or extend components as the business and technology landscape evolves.
  • Build With AI and Embed AI Where It Matters: Treat AI as both a way of building and a capability to embed in the product. Use AI fluently to accelerate the actual work of building - Salesforce configuration, Apex and Lightning development, integration prototyping, data modeling, test design, documentation. At the same time, define how AI accelerates seller productivity, partner experience, and operations across the platform - using our internal AI capabilities, custom agents, and modern orchestration patterns.
  • Lead the Team: Build and lead a small, high-leverage team of technical and functional talent - admins, developers, analysts, and architects - and partner with the broader Technology organization on engineering, integration, and infrastructure dependencies. Set the bar for how the team uses AI in their own work to ship faster and with higher quality.
  • Drive Shared Accountability with Sales and Channel Leadership: Partner with senior commercial leaders so that GTM platform outcomes - partner experience, seller productivity, quote turnaround, accuracy, adoption - are shared metrics, not handed off to Technology.
  • Manage Vendor and Partner Relationships: Manage relationships with platform vendors, system integrators, and specialty partners to ensure deliverables meet expectations, architectural standards, and commercial obligations.


Education (minimum education required)

Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Science

Preferred Education (i.e. type of degree)

Master of Business Administration

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

  • 10 or more years of experience operating at the intersection of GTM/commercial and technology in a B2B or B2B2B environment, including time spent in or directly supporting sales, sales operations, channel, or other commercial functions.
  • Proven track record of leading business process design and customer/partner experience improvement alongside technology delivery - not as separate workstreams, but as one integrated discipline.
  • Experience leading the design, build, and evolution of GTM technology platforms - including hands-on knowledge of CRM, CPQ, partner/customer experience, and quote-to-order capabilities. Working knowledge of Salesforce (Sales Cloud, CPQ, Experience Cloud) and Oracle ERP environments preferred but not required as anchoring platforms.
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI to accelerate the work of building enterprise software - including configuration, development, integration, and data work - and a track record of integrating AI into commercial systems in meaningful ways. Experience working with custom AI stacks and internal model or agent infrastructure preferred over reliance on packaged vendor AI products.
  • Experience leading small, high-leverage teams and managing system integrators and specialty vendors with accountability for delivery outcomes.
  • Channel-led, partner-led, or B2B2B GTM experience is strongly preferred. Manufacturing, industrial technology, or distribution experience is a plus.


Physical Requirements
  • Sedentary Work


Travel Requirements
  • 1-20%


Other

To Be Successful in This Role
  • Business-First Instinct: Leads every conversation, decision, and design with a clear picture of the business process and customer or partner experience involved. Has the curiosity to actually go and watch how the work gets done, and the discipline to make sure technology serves the business - not the other way around.
  • Channel and B2B2B Instinct: Understands that selling through partners, agents, and system integrators is a fundamentally different design problem than direct B2B and has built or operated in those motions before.
  • Techno-Functional Dual Fluency: Equally credible in a commercial conversation about deal flow, channel motion, and seller behavior as in a technical conversation about data models, integration patterns, and AI architecture. Has earned this fluency through real experience on both sides - ideally including time in sales, sales operations, or commercial roles earlier in your career.
  • Architectural Judgment: Strong opinions about platform design, with the discipline to keep technical debt from accumulating and the pragmatism to know when "good enough today" is the right answer. Comfortable making trade-offs that preserve future optionality without overbuilding for it.
  • Platform-Agnostic Mindset: Deep working experience with Salesforce, Oracle, and modern data platforms - but not anchored to any one of them. Knows when each platform's capabilities are right and when they're not and is just as comfortable building net-new with modern tools and AI as with extending an established SaaS platform.
  • Executive Presence and Influence: Can co-own outcomes with senior commercial executives, push back on bad ideas with grace, and earn the right to be in the room when GTM strategy gets set.

The range for this position is $173,000 to $312,000. Placement within this range may vary, depending on the applicant's experience and geographic location. Acuity offers generous benefits including health care, dental coverage, vision plans, 401K benefits, and commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role. For a list of our benefits, click here.

About Acuity Brands, Inc

Acuity Brands, Inc. is a lighting and building management firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, with operations throughout North America and in Europe and Asia. It currently has about 12,000 employees and recorded net sales of $3.5 billion for fiscal year 2020. The company designs, produces, and distributes lighting fixtures, controls, and related products and services for commercial, institutional, industrial, infrastructure, and residential applications. Its lighting and building management solutions are marketed under various brands, including Lithonia Lighting, Holophane, Aculux, American Electric Lighting, and others. Acuity Brands is committed to sustainability and energy efficiency, and offers a range of products that meet or exceed industry standards for energy efficiency and environmental performance.
Learn more about Acuity Brands, Inc
Size
13,000 employees
Market Cap
$5.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$250.9 million
Founded
1898
5 Year Trend
+2.7%
Revenue
$3.2 billion
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