Senior IT, Security & AI Enablement Lead

BranchLab; Boulder (CO); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation stipend available

Equity

Job summary

BranchLab is seeking a hands-on leader to own and evolve internal IT, security, compliance, and AI enablement. You will manage the technology employees rely on daily, strengthen security, support SOC 2, and guide AI adoption in secure, pragmatic ways.

This role emphasizes solving problems directly, establishing practical processes, and enabling the whole company to work more effectively as BranchLab grows in the healthcare analytics space.

Qualifications

• Experience owning or administering IT systems in a modern cloud-based organization.
• Strong understanding of identity, access management, endpoint security, SaaS administration, and security fundamentals.
• Experience supporting security or compliance programs such as SOC 2, including audits, evidence collection, risk remediation, or customer security reviews.
• Strong technical aptitude and the ability to troubleshoot integrations, APIs, authentication, permissions, and SaaS platforms.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools to improve business workflows, automate processes, or integrate AI capabilities into existing systems.
• Ability to evaluate new technologies from both a productivity and security perspective.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with technical teams, business users, auditors, customers, and vendors.
• A pragmatic mindset focused on implementing appropriate controls without creating unnecessary process or bureaucracy.

Responsibilities

• Operate and continuously improve security controls across endpoints, identity, cloud services, and corporate systems.
• Own BranchLab’s internal IT environment, including identity and access management, employee devices, SaaS applications, onboarding/offboarding, and day‑to‑day technology operations.
• Lead operational support for SOC 2, including control execution, evidence collection, remediation tracking, policy maintenance, and audit coordination.
• Own or coordinate responses to customer, partner, and vendor security and compliance questionnaires.
• Identify and implement practical uses of AI across the company, including integrations, automations, copilots, agents, and AI‑enabled business workflows.
• Establish secure and responsible practices for adopting AI tools, including data handling, vendor evaluation, access controls, and appropriate use of company and customer information.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Operations, and business teams to improve security, productivity, and automation while keeping processes pragmatic and lightweight.

Skills

IT systems administration

Cloud security fundamentals

Identity and access management

SaaS administration

Security audits

APIs & integrations

AI in workflows

Communication skills

Pragmatic security

Tools

Jira

Salesforce

Slack

GitHub

Job description

BranchLab is seeking a hands-on leader to own and evolve internal IT, security, compliance, and AI enablement. You will manage the technology employees rely on daily, strengthen security, support SOC 2, and guide AI adoption in secure, pragmatic ways.

This role emphasizes solving problems directly, establishing practical processes, and enabling the whole company to work more effectively as BranchLab grows in the healthcare analytics space.