Technology Business Partner

The Technology Business Partner (TBP) at Sage is a senior level, highly skilled communicator who serves as a trusted advisor and bridge between business leaders and technology delivery. The TBP translates business strategy into outcome-focused technology priorities, ensuring investments deliver measurable value, efficiency, and innovation. This role operates at the intersection of strategy, portfolio management, and delivery alignment.

Your new role:

Strategic Partnership & Business Alignment

• Act as the primary strategic technology partner for assigned business domains, building deep, trust-based relationships with senior collaborators.

• Communicate effectively across all levels of the organization by translating technology options, risks, and tradeoffs into clear business terms for executives and actionable clarity for delivery teams.

• Translate business strategies, objectives, and challenges into clearly articulated technology outcomes and investment priorities.

• Serve as a thought partner to business leaders on how technology can enable growth, efficiency, risk reduction, and innovation.

• Work with other Technology Business Partners and the Technology Governance Group to update and define the Technology strategy.

Demand Shaping & Portfolio Alignment

• Partner with Architecture, Finance and Delivery Management to align demand with capacity, sequencing, and investment guardrails.

• Ensure initiatives are dedicated, appropriately scoped, and aligned to product, platform, and enterprise strategies.

• Coordinate cross-domain initiatives are coordinated and aligned to avoid duplication, fragmentation, or conflicting priorities.

Roadmap & Value Management

• Co-create and maintain multi-year technology roadmaps that reflect business priorities and goals.

• Support benefits definition and value estimates upfront and track value realization in partnership with delivery and finance teams.

• Lead regular business and technology reviews (e.g., quarterly) to manage the investment portfolio, assess progress, outcomes, risks, and changing priorities.

• Measure, track, and report on value realization, performance metrics, and customer satisfaction relative to technology projects delivered.

Stakeholder Leadership & Governance

• Provide clear, consistent and proactive communication between business leaders and technology teams, especially during periods of change or constraint.

• Facilitate difficult conversations by clearly articulating risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and constraints, ensuring alignment without escalation or ambiguity.

• Surface risks, dependencies, and trade-offs early, enabling informed executive decision-making.

• Bring the right technology leaders (e.g., Product, Architecture, Engineering) into discussions, ensuring strategic business goals are clearly understood by delivery teams.

• Quantify and communicate the value delivered through IT projects and services.

Could you be our new Technology Business Partner?

Skills and Experience:

• Exceptional communication skills, with demonstrated ability to influence, align, and engage senior leaders through clear, concise, and outcomefocused messaging.

• Ability to translate complex, ambiguous, or technical topics into language appropriate for executive, business, and delivery audiences.

• Strong facilitation skills to drive alignment, resolve conflict, and maintain momentum across diverse collaborator groups.

• Comfort operating in ambiguity and evolving strategies.

• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of multiple delivery methodologies, Product Management approaches, and delivery management capabilities.

• Experience with portfolio management, financial management, service models, and performance scorecards.

• Ability to use qualitative and quantitative inputs to inform prioritization and decisions.

If you have a disability and you need any support during the application process, please contact hr.resume@sagepub.com All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.

Pay Transparency & Benefits Package:

Sage Publishing is committed to being an inclusive employer where all individuals are treated with fairness and respect. Sage is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

Compensation at Sage is influenced by several factors, including but not limited to skill set, nature and level of experience, qualifications, and other relevant considerations. Please note that the compensation details listed in U.S. role postings reflect the base salary only and do not include bonuses or benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and additional aspects of the compensation/benefits package for this position during the hiring process. If your desired salary falls outside of this range, we hope you'll still apply as there may be other positions that better align.

In addition to compensation, Sage offers a highly competitive and comprehensive PPO medical, dental, and vision care benefits package with SAGE covering most of the premium costs. Unique program benefits that support a healthy life, a company-sponsored anniversary trip every 5 years, a 401(k)-matching program of 100% up to 5% of pay, and other significant meaningful benefits. In alignment with our value for education, Sage offers financial support for bachelor's and graduate-level degree programs as well as learning for personal interest.

Sage offers freedom and autonomy in your day-to-day with hybrid or remote work, depending on the role. Join the nearly 2,000 Sage employees worldwide who deliver products and services that serve to fulfill our noble goal of education and dissemination of knowledge globally. We'd love to meet you!

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Sage Publishing is committed to being an inclusive employer where all individuals are treated with fairness and respect, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marriage and partnership status, pregnancy and parental responsibilities, race, religion and belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

We believe that diversity is a cornerstone of a vibrant culture. We want Sage to be an organization where the most talented staff and high-potential staff are recruited, have the opportunity to grow, and want to work. We strive to achieve a better representation of diverse talent at all levels, including leadership, across our workforce.