IT Manager
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
About the Company
We are a fast-growing Series A artificial intelligence company building the next generation of enterprise automation and voice superintelligence. Our real-time AI agents understand emotion and resolve enterprise customer experience issues instantly.
Backed by top-tier Silicon Valley investors including Redpoint Ventures and Y Combinatorwe have scaled from 10 to 75 employees in just six months raised $61M in funding and already handle over 40000 daily transactions for Fortune 500 customers. We operate at a true inflection point where speed pragmatism and first-principles thinking drive our culture.
Why This Role Shifts Your Career
- True Green Field Ownership: As our first-ever IT hire you will build our IT and security infrastructure from scratch. There is no inherited mess to clean up and no rigid corporate playbook to follow.
- Hyper-Growth Trajectory: You are joining right as our infrastructure becomes critical to supporting massive enterprise scale.
- A Zero-Friction Culture: We value speed over bureaucratic process. If you are tired of over-engineered compliance and rigid corporate silos you will thrive in our pragmatic high-autonomy environment.
What Youll Do
As the founding IT leader you will own the end-to-end IT and security landscape balancing robust protection with developer velocity.
- Fleet Management: End-to-end ownership of our Mac/Apple fleet including automated provisioning MDM configuration disk encryption patch management and onboarding/offboarding workflows.
- SaaS & Identity Stack: Administer Google Workspace and our wider core SaaS footprint. Implement and maintain SSO MFA SCIM provisioning and regular least-privilege access reviews.
- Help Desk & Support: Build out and run day-to-day IT support workflows selecting the tooling and automation necessary to keep a high-performing team entirely unblocked.
- Right-Sized Compliance: Author implement and support our SOC 2 (or similar) compliance framework ensuring we meet enterprise security standards without over-engineering the controls.
- Network & Infrastructure: Secure and optimize our physical San Francisco office network (Wi-Fi firewalls VPN and segmentation) for maximum performance.
- Vendor & Budget Ownership: Evaluate procure and manage our IT vendors MSPs and tooling partnerships. Decide what we build in-house versus what we outsource.
Who You Are
We are looking for a scrappy highly autonomous builder who thrives in fast-paced startup environments.
Critical Requirements
- Startup DNA: 3 years of hands-on IT/security experience ideally as the first or second IT hire at a high-growth tech startup. (Please note: Candidates whose experience is exclusively in large corporate environments or the healthcare/biotech sectors will not be a match for this fast-moving culture).
- Apple Ecosystem Expert: Deep production-level experience managing an all-Mac developer fleet using modern MDM and identity platforms (e.g. Rippling Jamf).
- Security & Compliance Savvy: Proven experience building or supporting a SOC 2 framework. You understand compliance controls deeply but know how to implement them without adding friction.
- Technical Breadth: Strong foundational knowledge of Google Workspace administration network security (firewalls VPNs) and basic scripting/automation to eliminate manual workflows.
- First-Principles Thinker: Exceptional high-agency mindset. You can join a company with zero IT structure and confidently decide what needs to be built immediately versus what can wait.
- Commute & Presence: You must currently reside in the SF Bay Area and be excited to work full-time 5 days a week from our Dogpatch office.