Principal/MD, Value Creation - Technology, Global Portfolio Solutions

The Carlyle Group is seeking an exceptional technology leader to join the Global Portfolio Solutions (GPS) team as Principal/MD, Value Creation - Technology. This individual will serve as Carlyle's primary technology value creation resource for the Americas, partnering with portfolio management teams, deal teams, and GPS functional peers to accelerate technology-driven value creation across Carlyle's US Buyout portfolio.

The GPS Technology role will be the connective tissue between Carlyle's investment professionals and the technology leadership at portfolio companies - translating strategic investment theses into concrete technology execution roadmaps, and converting lessons learned across the portfolio into scalable playbooks, partnerships, and community.

Key Responsibilities:

- Partner directly with portfolio management teams and deal teams to develop and execute technology value creation roadmaps aligned to each company's investment thesis

- Advise portfolio companies on architecting and executing large-scale technology transformation programs, including carve-outs, acquisitions, modernization, platform consolidation, and cloud migration

- Evaluate portfolio companies' technology spend, identifying opportunities to optimize across labor, software, hardware and services

- Advise on optimizing technology operating models, including onshore/offshore structures, build vs. buy vs. partner tradeoffs, and vendor management

- Build and maintain a network of high-performing technology leaders that can fill permanent or temporary vacant roles at portfolio companies

- Serve as a thought partner to portfolio company CIOs, CTOs, and CPOs on strategic technology investment prioritization

- Develop and curate technology-focused case studies and playbooks that capture best practices across the Carlyle portfolio

The Carlyle Group is one of the world's largest and most diversified global investment firms with more than $400 billion of assets under management across three business segments.