Founding IT Operations

About the role

The role involves owning and maintaining SOC 2, driving HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001 compliance, automating compliance workflows with AI, building systems and processes for operating in regulated environments, and managing IT operations and the IT foundation.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain SOC 2, and drive HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001 to completion
• Automate compliance workflows with AI so audit readiness is continuous, not a scramble
• Create the systems, evidence pipelines, and processes that let us operate in regulated environments at speed
• Translate between engineering, HR, legal, and leadership. Turn ambiguous requirements into clear, tracked, delivered work
• Own device management, network troubleshooting, and day-to-day IT operations
• Stand up our IT foundation from scratch and choose the tooling we'll grow into
• Create clear, trusted visibility into compliance and IT status for leadership
• Hold vendors and auditors accountable to timelines and outcomes

Requirements

• A strong technical foundation. A computer science background or equivalent hands-on technical ability
• Genuine fluency with AI tools, and a track record of using them to automate real work
• Excellent written and verbal communication across technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfort shipping in ambiguity, with a bias for driving clarity and removing blockers
• The judgment to operate in regulated systems where the details matter

Qualifications

• An infinite learner. Someone relentless in their curiosity — incredibly AI-curious, and always reaching for the tool or automation before the manual grind
• A builder, not a box-checker. You see compliance and IT as systems to engineer, not checklists to babysit
• A winning attitude. You thrive with extreme accountability, learning as a team, and both giving and receiving rapid feedback
• Extreme clarity in communication. You can bridge engineering, HR, legal, and leadership and leave every room more aligned than you found it
• Unafraid of failure. You take risks and treat failure as an opportunity to learn, grow, and be better the next time

Skills

• Prior compliance experience, SOC 2 at minimum
• Hands-on experience with HIPAA, GDPR, or ISO 27001
• Experience standing up IT or device management for a growing team

Benefits

• Compensation: $110,000 - $140,000/year + equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and supplementary food and drink
• World-class gym, sauna, and cold plunge in office
• Commuter benefits
• Relocation assistance
• Take what you need paid time off, not accrual-based
• $1,000 stipend for learning and personal growth
• $1,500/month rent stipend
• Tech equipment