Senior Manager, Security Incident Response

🔥 18 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $236k - $296k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🛡️ Security Operations

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Affirm

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Fintech • B2C • eCommerce

Affirm is a financial technology company that offers a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service, allowing consumers to make purchases and pay for them over time with flexible payment plans. Affirm eliminates hidden fees and compound interest, providing clear terms and conditions for its users. The company also offers the Affirm Card, a debit card that allows users to request to pay over time for larger purchases or pay in full for smaller ones. Affirm partners with various retailers across multiple categories, including electronics, apparel, and travel, providing customers with the convenience of paying over time at checkout both online and in physical stores. Affirm's services are integrated with Apple Pay, enabling customers to make payments seamlessly from their iPhone or iPad.

📋 Description

• Lead security incidents and investigations across the full lifecycle, from initial assessment through containment, remediation, recovery, and post-incident review • Serve as incident commander for major security events • Set clear roles and decision paths and coordinate large technical and cross-functional response groups • Guide technical investigations and root-cause analyses with engineering teams • Validate fixes and drive durable corrective actions across the business • Manage and develop a technical, engineering-oriented response team • Set priorities, coach engineers, and build incident command depth and consistent execution across regions • Set operating objectives and global readiness practices, including playbooks, escalation paths, exercises, on-call readiness, postmortems, and response-effectiveness measures • Drive improvements to response tooling, security telemetry, detection, and automation • Develop agentic AI workflows supporting investigation and analysis with human oversight and security and privacy safeguards • Translate security and incident metrics into executive dashboards and board-level risk reporting • Surface trends and remediation priorities to drive cross-functional action

🎯 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 setting direction and priorities, coaching engineers, and guiding hands-on incident work • Track record of 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 • Ability to translate complex incidents, security metrics, and customer or business impact into executive updates and board-level reporting • Ability to move ambiguous work forward independently and make sound decisions with incomplete information • Ability to drive investigations, remediation, and program improvements to completion with measurable results • AI-forward mindset and sound judgment applying AI to security operations, including agentic investigation or automation workflows with human oversight and appropriate security, privacy, and operational safeguards • Experience in fintech or payments and familiarity with threat intelligence are nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards • Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending • 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents • Health coverage at no cost: 100% of premiums covered for employees and their dependents • Monthly stipends supporting tech setup and health and wellness options • Flexible time off • Generous holiday calendars • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) to buy Affirm stock at a discount • Remote-first work flexibility • In-person onboarding experience for all new hires • Inclusive interview process and accommodations for candidates with disabilities

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