Job Description:

• Lead and coach a high-performing Security & IT organization across five disciplines and seven direct reports.
• Develop technical talent and succession depth across critical roles.
• Shape the IT and Security organization for current execution and near-term scale.
• Own the IT and Security budget and connect headcount and tooling spend to risk reduction.
• Build a culture of clarity and ownership across two teams.
• Set standards, SLAs, and runbooks for consistent execution.
• Represent IT and Security in leadership discussions and translate operational risk for executives.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, DevOps, People Ops, and Finance on onboarding, offboarding, SaaS rollouts, migrations, and compliance.
• Partner with Sales on customer security reviews.
• Own incident response end to end: detection, triage, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident review.
• Build and tune detections against real adversary behavior.
• Run on-call rotation, escalation paths, severity model, and incident runbooks.
• Report honestly on security posture.
• Own the Product Security program and embed security into the development lifecycle.
• Run product vulnerability management and time-to-fix accountability.
• Surface product risk with recommendations.
• Set and execute strategy for endpoints, identity, and SaaS at scale, including MDM, patch compliance, hardware lifecycle, and zero-touch provisioning across macOS and Windows.
• Own IAM provisioning, group design, MFA, and access reviews.
• Own the company’s AI, SaaS, and cloud technology ecosystem, including collaboration, source control, and secrets management platforms.
• Track KPIs for ticket responsiveness, patch and MDM coverage, access reviews, and IT spend.
• Serve as a senior Automox power user and feedback channel to Product and Engineering.
• Maintain SOC 2 through continuous evidence collection and control operation and own the audit relationship.
• Maintain the risk register and vendor review process.

Requirements:

• 8+ years managing people, including performance management, hiring, and developing engineers into stronger engineers.
• 12+ years in security engineering or security operations, with hands-on detection engineering and incident response as a core part of that time.
• Experience partnering with an engineering organization on product security, with results you can point to.
• Direct IT operations responsibility, or a combined security and IT role.
• A track record of turning strategy into execution with measurable outcomes.
• Working knowledge of SOC 2 sufficient to keep an existing program healthy.
• Detection engineering across endpoint, identity, cloud, and SaaS telemetry, including SIEM or equivalent log pipeline design.
• Practical knowledge of adversary tradecraft and how it shows up in your data.
• Application and cloud security fundamentals strong enough to review a design.
• Experience with a modern identity provider, MDM for macOS and Windows, collaboration suite administration, source control administration, and cloud IAM.
• Working Linux experience.
• Working familiarity with PowerShell, bash, and Python.
• Sound judgment reviewing AI-generated automation for correctness and security.
• Sound judgment on architectural and tooling trade-offs.
• Ability to balance longer-horizon planning against daily operational demand across two functions.
• Clear and credible technical and executive communication.
• Calm and decisive under incident pressure.
• Must be able to pass a federal, state, county background check.
• Complete a local in-person verification.
• We are not able to sponsor work visas at this time.

Benefits:

• Bonus
• Equity for Full-Time Employees
• 401K Match
• Flexible PTO
• Generous sick time policy
• Comprehensive Health Plans with generous employer contributions
• 100% Company-paid Short Term/Long Term Disability and Life Insurance
• Company HSA Contribution: $100-$200 per month based on tier
• $25 per month Lifestyle Spending Account
• Internet Reimbursement - $50/month
• $500 Home office stipend
• $10k Adoption Benefit
• Comprehensive Family Planning Covered on Meritian Medical Plan
• Competitive Salary