# Manager, Security Incident Response

**Company:** [1Password](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/1password)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $192k – $278k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Incident Response, Security Automation, Ai-Assisted Workflows, Threat Hunting, Insider Risk, Cloud Security, Saas Security, Identity Security, Incident Management, Detection Engineering, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Red Teaming, Tabletop Exercises, On-Call Operations
**Posted:** 2026-09-01

> Leads and develops a security incident response team while driving automation, AI-assisted workflows, operational maturity, and response strategy. The role requires 5+ years of incident response experience, people leadership, technical depth, and calm management of high-severity incidents.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and develop a team of security incident responders and security builders.
- Set expectations, establish ownership, delegate work, and support team growth and performance.
- Define and drive the security incident response roadmap and strategic priorities, including agentic incident response, threat hunting, and insider risk investigations.
- Scale team capacity through AI-assisted tooling and automation with appropriate human-judgment, approval, auditability, and rollback controls.
- Oversee detection, triage, containment, remediation, and post-incident learning.
- Serve as an escalation point and incident manager for complex or high-severity events, including participation in the on-call rotation.
- Partner with Detection Engineering, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Red Team, and other teams to close detection and response gaps.
- Evolve playbooks, training, tabletop exercises, metrics, and reporting.
- Track and report incident trends, operational metrics, program maturity, and the impact of automation and AI tooling.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of security incident response experience.
- 2+ years as a people manager or technical leader supporting career development and performance management.
- Experience building or scaling incident response automation, tooling, or AI-assisted workflows for triage, enrichment, or investigation.
- Experience defining ownership, delegating work, and measuring outcomes.
- Experience managing high-pressure security incidents with clarity and calm.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native, SaaS, and identity-driven attack techniques and response methods.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience breaking strategic initiatives into projects, coordinating team sprints, and managing competing priorities.
- Ability to foster psychological safety and stability in stressful environments.

## Compensation
- United States: $192,000–$278,000 USD annual base salary, plus benefits, paid time off, equity, and applicable incentive programs.
- Canada: $171,000–$248,000 CAD annual base salary, plus benefits, paid time off, equity, and applicable incentive programs.

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