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Director of IT jobs: 261 open roles, pay, industries and skills

261 open Director of IT jobs, taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open. Also listed as IT Director, Director, IT, Senior Director of IT, Global Director of IT, Regional Director of IT. Listings that state pay show a median of $175,000 a year.

The market for Director of IT work

Every figure is counted from verified open listings. Pay is what the employer advertises for the job.

Verified open Director of IT jobs
261

Source: NextChapter, checked against employer career sites, last 7 days.

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Median pay in listings that state it
$175,000

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State with the most openings
California (42)

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Industry hiring the most
Technology & Software (21%)

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Listings that are remote
25%

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Listings that ask for an AI skill
29%

Source: NextChapter verified openings, read in full.

What a Director of IT does

Director role in Operations.

A director of it leads a team inside the function and answers for internal systems, infrastructure, vendors and the IT budget.

Usually reports to a vice president or a C-suite leader, and manages managers and individual contributors. Senior and global director titles are counted here.

Other ways this role is written

  • Director of IT
  • IT Director
  • Director, IT
  • Senior Director of IT
  • Global Director of IT
  • Regional Director of IT
  • Director of Information Technology
  • Director of Information Systems

Listings under any of these titles are counted on this page. Assistant, associate, manager and staff titles are not.

Open Director of IT jobs

Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.

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Director of IT salary

From 53 open listings that state pay. Annual, in US dollars, base pay only.

Lower quarter
$150,000
Median
$175,000
Upper quarter
$225,000

Leadership pay often includes bonus and equity that a listing does not state. Treat these figures as the floor of the conversation, not the whole package.

Best industries for Director of IT jobs

Employers hiring the most, as a share of listings whose employer has a known industry. Median pay shown where at least 8 listings state it.

Where Director of IT jobs are

States with the most open listings; median pay where at least 8 listings state it.

Skills Director of IT jobs ask for

Named in the listings themselves, as a share of 153 Director of IT listings that name skills. Leadership listings name fewer skills than individual-contributor ones, so this is a signal, not a checklist.

Most named in Director of IT listings

  1. 1. audit31%
  2. 2. procurement24%
  3. 3. vendor management22%
  4. 4. change management20%
  5. 5. erp20%
  6. 6. risk management18%
  7. 7. aws17%
  8. 8. project management17%
  9. 9. onboarding16%
  10. 10. azure16%

Across all Operations openings

  1. 1. supply chain13%
  2. 2. procurement13%
  3. 3. logistics11%
  4. 4. project management9%
  5. 5. excel7%
  6. 6. onboarding4%
  7. 7. audit3%
  8. 8. inventory management3%
  9. 9. lean3%
  10. 10. risk management3%

AI skills for Director of IT jobs

Specific AI skills named in the full posting text, such as prompt engineering, AI governance or an AI tool. A general mention of AI does not count.

29% of 138 open Director of IT listings ask for a specific AI skill, against 2% of all Operations openings.

AI skills named most often

  1. 1. AI governance and risk10%
  2. 2. AI adoption and change management9%
  3. 3. AI workflow automation7%
  4. 4. AI tools in daily work7%
  5. 5. AI strategy and use cases7%
  6. 6. LLM application engineering6%

Do AI skills change director of it pay?

For Operations roles in general, as of November 2, 2026. This is the function’s figure, not one for director of it alone: one title rarely has enough listings on both sides.

Among Operations listings, those that ask for an AI skill advertise +24.8% (about $32.5k) compared with similar listings that do not, matched on level and industry.

Listings that ask for an AI skill
$160,000
median, from 523 paid listings
Listings that never mention AI
$111,500
median, from 2,344 paid listings

Advertised pay only: the midpoint of the range an employer posted, on live U.S. postings read from the full text. “Asks for an AI skill” means the posting names a specific AI skill; “no AI” means it never mentions AI. A difference in what is advertised is not a promise of what you would be paid, and it does not show that learning a skill causes a raise.

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The Operations ladder

The same function at other levels: where this role comes from and where it leads.

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Job titles under Director of IT

The exact titles employers use, with their own job and salary pages.

Employers hiring for Director of IT roles

  • Hackensack Meridian Health 7
  • New York University 4
  • Creative Financial Staffing 3
  • Alvarez & Marsal 3
  • University Of Miami 2
  • Prosimo.io 2
  • Gilead Sciences 2
  • KForce 2
  • GILEAD Sciences 2
  • Robert Half 2
  • DSG Global 2
  • 4D Molecular Therapeutics 2

Director of IT questions

What does a Director of IT do?
A director of it leads a team inside the function and answers for internal systems, infrastructure, vendors and the IT budget. Usually reports to a vice president or a C-suite leader, and manages managers and individual contributors. Senior and global director titles are counted here.
What else is a Director of IT called?
The same job is also written IT Director, Director, IT, Senior Director of IT, Global Director of IT, Regional Director of IT, Director of Information Technology, Director of Information Systems.
How many Director of IT jobs are open?
261 verified open Director of IT jobs, each checked against the employer’s own career site within the last week.
How much does a Director of IT make?
Among 53 open Director of IT listings that state pay, the median is $175,000 a year, and half of listings fall between $150,000 and $225,000. This is pay the employer advertises for the job, not total compensation such as bonus or equity.
Where are Director of IT jobs?
California (42), Texas (23), New York (14), Pennsylvania (13) have the most open Director of IT listings. About 25% of listings that state a work arrangement are remote.
Which state pays a Director of IT the most?
Of the states with enough listings that state pay, California has the highest median at $240,500.
Which industries hire for Director of IT roles?
Technology & Software (21%), Healthcare & Hospital Systems (20%), Pharmaceuticals & Biotech (12%), Education & EdTech (11%), as a share of listings whose employer has a known industry.
What skills do Director of IT jobs ask for?
The skills named most often in open Director of IT listings are audit, procurement, vendor management, change management, erp.
Do Director of IT jobs ask for AI skills?
29% of 138 open Director of IT listings read in full name a specific AI skill. The most common is AI governance and risk.

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