Senior SOC Manager - AI-Driven MDR with Equity

Artemis Search; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Artemis is seeking a SOC Manager to lead and scale Artemis Apollo, our MDR service. You will define the direction for SOC operations, sharpen SOPs and escalation, and run real cases alongside your team.

This player-coach role owns SLAs, verdict quality, and customer outcomes while shaping detection and automation improvements. You will hire and mentor analysts, manage incident responses, and ensure high-quality service delivery across customers, with opportunities to influence product and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience, including team leadership in a SOC, MSSP, or MDR environment.
• Experience building or running a SOC / MDR operation, standing up SOPs, runbooks, shift coverage, and SLA programs
• Hands-on incident response experience across cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), identity (Okta, Entra ID), endpoint (EDR), and SaaS environments
• Strong knowledge of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (MITRE ATT&CK) and the ability to QA and elevate analyst investigations
• Track record hiring, mentoring, and retaining tier-2/3 analysts while holding a high quality bar
• Excellent communication skills, comfortable owning customer relationships and incident calls with both technical and executive audiences

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale the MDR operation across Artemis Apollo SOC.
• Set operating standards by shaping SOPs, runbooks, escalation paths, and on-call processes.
• Own quality assurance by reviewing analyst verdicts and coaching for accuracy.
• Carry a caseload as a player-coach during peak load and early onboarding.
• Own SLAs and service delivery by defining and meeting targets by severity.
• Lead incident response and escalations, coordinating containment and IR handoffs.
• Hire, onboard, and mentor analysts to grow the team while maintaining quality.
• Be a trusted security voice for customers, presenting findings to executives as needed.
• Shape and improve the Artemis platform by feeding detection tuning and product requirements.
• Manage the metrics that matter, tracking MTTV and SLA attainment to optimize staffing

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

SOC/MDR experience

Incident response

MITRE ATT&CK

Executive communication

Team mentoring

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Sigma

YARA-L

KQL

Job description

Artemis is seeking a SOC Manager to lead and scale Artemis Apollo, our MDR service. You will define the direction for SOC operations, sharpen SOPs and escalation, and run real cases alongside your team.

This player-coach role owns SLAs, verdict quality, and customer outcomes while shaping detection and automation improvements. You will hire and mentor analysts, manage incident responses, and ensure high-quality service delivery across customers, with opportunities to influence product and