Global Incident Response Lead - AI-Driven Security Ops

Affirm, Inc.; San Diego (CA); Remote; USD 265,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Tech setup stipends

Flexible time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking an experienced security leader to head global investigations and the incident response program, guiding complex incidents and expanding capabilities to scale with the business.

You will manage a technically deep, engineering-focused team and shape AI-enabled workflows with appropriate safeguards responsible for evidence gathering, analysis, and coordination. You’ll drive readiness, build playbooks, on-call processes, and postmortems while translating metrics into

Qualifications

• 10+ years in security operations, incident response, or related field.
• Proven ability to lead major security incidents across cloud-native environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration with engineering and executive teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead security incidents and investigations across full lifecycle.
• Serve as incident commander for major events and coordinate cross-functional response groups.
• Guide investigations and root-cause analyses with engineering teams to drive durable fixes.

Skills

Security operations

Incident response

Cross-functional leadership

Cloud-native environments

AI-enabled investigations

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking an experienced security leader to head global investigations and the incident response program, guiding complex incidents and expanding capabilities to scale with the business.

You will manage a technically deep, engineering-focused team and shape AI-enabled workflows with appropriate safeguards responsible for evidence gathering, analysis, and coordination. You’ll drive readiness, build playbooks, on-call processes, and postmortems while translating metrics into