Senior Manager, Security Incident Response

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About the role

  • Senior security leader directing Affirm’s global incident response and investigations. Building scalable detection, readiness, and AI-enabled security capabilities for fintech payments.

Responsibilities

  • Lead security incidents and investigations through assessment, containment, remediation, recovery, and post-incident review
  • Serve as incident commander for major security events and coordinate technical and cross-functional response groups
  • Guide technical investigations and root-cause analyses with engineering teams, validate fixes, and drive corrective actions
  • Manage and develop a technical, engineering-oriented response team
  • Set global readiness practices, including playbooks, escalation paths, exercises, on-call readiness, postmortems, and response-effectiveness measures
  • Improve response tooling, security telemetry, detection, and automation, including agentic AI workflows with human oversight and security and privacy safeguards
  • Translate security and incident metrics into executive dashboards and board-level risk reporting

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, or a related security field
  • Proven ability to lead major security incidents and investigations in technology-driven, cloud-native environments
  • Strong technical foundation in security operations, investigations, incident response, detection, root-cause analysis, and/or digital forensics across cloud and enterprise environments
  • Experience managing and developing technical or engineering teams
  • Experience building scalable response capabilities through repeatable practices, on-call readiness, exercises, postmortems, operational measures, and security tooling such as SIEM, EDR, or SOAR
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, including executive updates and board-level reporting
  • Ability to independently advance ambiguous work, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and drive investigations, remediation, and program improvements to completion
  • AI-forward mindset and judgment applying AI to security operations, including agentic investigation or automation workflows with human oversight and appropriate safeguards

Benefits

  • 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents
  • Dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents
  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending
  • Flexible time off
  • Generous holiday calendars
  • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) with discounted Affirm stock
  • Remote-first work flexibility
  • In-person onboarding experience
  • Inclusive interview process and disability accommodations

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$236,000 - $296,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Cloud

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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