Jay Rouse

Executive Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer ConstructConnect

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Jay Rouse is Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer of ConstructConnect, the construction information and preconstruction software business that sits inside Roper Technologies’ Network Software segment. He joined in September 2026 with responsibility for sales, customer success and the whole go-to-market organisation, reporting to president and chief executive Buck Brody. His appointment is notable for the length and shape of the career behind it: he spent nearly thirty years at the Cincinnati payroll and HR company Paycor, joining in an implementation support role and leaving as Chief Revenue Officer, having helped take the business from about $5 million in revenue to more than $700 million, through an IPO and then through a multi-billion-dollar acquisition by Paychex.

Career Highlights

• Appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer of ConstructConnect, announced September 1, 2026, leading sales, customer success and go-to-market and reporting to CEO Buck Brody.
• At Paycor, advanced over nearly three decades from an implementation support role to Chief Revenue Officer — an unusually complete progression through a single company.
• Helped scale Paycor from roughly $5 million to more than $700 million in revenue, at sustained high double-digit annual growth.
• Played a key role in Paycor’s initial public offering.
• As Chief Revenue Officer, owned sales, sales development, revenue operations, training and enablement, and the client success partnership, running an organisation of more than 600 people together with a channel programme.
• Stayed on after Paychex acquired Paycor in a transaction valued at more than $4 billion, running a high-growth, high-retention software go-to-market organisation inside a disciplined public-company parent.
• Built AI fluency at Paycor both as an internal capability and as something customer-facing — the specific experience ConstructConnect cited in hiring him.

Professional Journey

Rouse’s career is, for practical purposes, the story of one company. He joined Paycor in an implementation support role — the unglamorous end of payroll software, where the job is getting a customer’s data and pay rules working correctly — and stayed for close to thirty years, rising through the organisation to become Chief Revenue Officer. Over that span Paycor grew from roughly $5 million in revenue to more than $700 million, and he was involved in enough of the intermediate stages to have seen the company at every scale in between.

As Chief Revenue Officer his ownership was unusually broad, covering not just sales but sales development, revenue operations, training and enablement, and the client success partnership, across multiple selling segments and a channel programme, with an organisation of more than 600 reporting up to him. He was part of the leadership group that took Paycor public, and then stayed through the company’s acquisition by Paychex in a deal valued at more than $4 billion — which meant running the same go-to-market machine under the constraints of a large, disciplined public-company owner rather than as an independent growth company. During that period he also pushed artificial intelligence into the organisation on two fronts: internally, as a way of running the revenue function, and externally as a capability customers would see.

ConstructConnect announced his hire on September 1, 2026. The company sells construction project information and preconstruction tools — takeoff, estimating and bid management — to contractors, suppliers and building product manufacturers, and it had been investing heavily in data and AI. Rouse’s own framing of the move pointed at that: he described the combination of platform, data and AI investment compounding at once as a rare setup. He reports to Buck Brody and sits on a leadership team of eight.

Education

Miami University

Accounting degree.

The specific designation is not stated in any source. Note that this is Miami University in Oxford, Ohio — consistent with his long-standing Cincinnati base — and not the University of Miami.