Senior IT, Security & AI Enablement Lead

BranchLab Inc.; Boulder, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Significant equity

Job summary

BranchLab is seeking a hands-on leader to own and evolve its internal IT, security, compliance, and AI enablement capabilities. You will manage the technology our employees rely on daily, strengthen security programs, support SOC 2 readiness, and help adopt AI across the business in a thoughtful, secure way.

You will identify opportunities to integrate AI into existing systems and workflows, evaluate emerging tools, build practical automations, and establish guardrails for AI use with company

Qualifications

• Experience managing IT systems in a cloud-based environment.
• 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.
• Hands-on ability to troubleshoot integrations, APIs, authentication, permissions, and SaaS platforms.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools to improve business workflows or automate processes.
• Ability to evaluate new technologies from productivity and security perspectives.
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Operate and continuously improve security controls across endpoints, identity, cloud services, and corporate systems.
• Own BranchLab’s internal IT environment, including IAM, employee devices, SaaS apps, 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 workflows.
• Establish secure and responsible practices for adopting AI tools, including data handling, vendor evaluation, access controls, and appropriate use of information.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Operations, and business teams to improve security, productivity, and automation while keeping processes lightweight.

Skills

Identity management

Access management

Endpoint security

SaaS administration

Security fundamentals

AI in business workflows

Communication with stakeholders

Tools

Jira

Salesforce

Slack

GitHub

Job description

BranchLab is seeking a hands-on leader to own and evolve its internal IT, security, compliance, and AI enablement capabilities. You will manage the technology our employees rely on daily, strengthen security programs, support SOC 2 readiness, and help adopt AI across the business in a thoughtful, secure way.

You will identify opportunities to integrate AI into existing systems and workflows, evaluate emerging tools, build practical automations, and establish guardrails for AI use with company