Engagement &
Experience
Drives strategic initiatives, manages enterprise support services, and cultivates campus partnerships to enhance institutional technology alignment and the user experience across UT Austin.
Delivering seamless support and fostering collaboration with campus IT partners — ensuring that technology strategy, support operations, and stakeholder engagement work together to serve the University community.
Three Core Areas
Engagement & Experience operates across three interconnected domains, each focused on a different dimension of how ET connects with and serves the campus.
Strategic Initiatives & IT Governance
Manages project prioritization, tracks institutional metrics, and maintains the IT governance framework that guides how technology investments are evaluated and approved across the University.
- IT project intake and prioritization
- Governance framework management
- Metrics tracking and reporting
Enterprise Technology Support Center
Unified support operations and endpoint management — the primary point of contact for students, faculty, and staff needing technology help, and the coordination hub for campus IT partner collaboration.
- Help desk and tier-1 support
- Endpoint management
- Campus IT partner coordination
Strategic Relations & Engagement
Builds and maintains relationships with colleges, schools, and units across campus — connecting ET's capabilities with departmental needs and surfacing technology opportunities through active partnership.
- Campus engagement and outreach
- Cross-campus partnerships
- Technology communications
AI Guidance & Governance
Coordinates ET's institutional approach to AI adoption — providing guidance, governance frameworks, and communications that help the campus community use AI tools responsibly and effectively.
ET Communications
Manages ET's external and internal communications — including the ET Newsroom, ET Talk podcast, social media presence, and the institutional messaging that keeps the campus informed about technology services and changes.
Digital Experience Strategy
Shapes how users experience ET's services — from web presence and digital channels to service design and the overall quality of technology interactions across the institution.
Tools & Technologies
Platforms Engagement & Experience manages and supports.
Part of Enterprise Technology
Engagement & Experience is one of seven teams within ET's unified organization.
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