SOC Manager (AI Cybersecurity)

Location: New York City, United States; on-site

Salary: $160,000–$200,000 per year, plus equity

Company

hirify.global is an AI-driven cybersecurity company building defense products and the hirify.global Apollo managed detection and response service.

What you will do

• Lead and scale the hirify.global Apollo SOC, including shift coverage, staffing, daily operations, and service delivery.
• Define and improve SOPs, runbooks, escalation paths, on-call processes, response-time targets, and SLAs.
• Review analyst verdicts and casework, maintain quality standards, coach analysts, and handle real cases as a player-coach.
• Lead declared incident response, coordinate containment, manage MDR-to-IR handoffs, and guide customer stakeholders.
• Hire, onboard, mentor, and retain tier-2 and tier-3 security analysts.
• Use operational metrics and case patterns to improve detection tuning, product requirements, and response automation.

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience, including team leadership in a SOC, MSSP, or MDR environment.
• Experience building or running a SOC or MDR operation with SOPs, runbooks, shift coverage, and SLA programs.
• Hands-on incident response across AWS, Azure, GCP, Okta, Entra ID, EDR, and SaaS environments.
• Strong knowledge of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures, including MITRE ATT&CK.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and retaining tier-2 and tier-3 analysts while maintaining a high quality bar.
• Excellent communication skills for customer relationships and incident calls with technical and executive audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience scaling a SOC or MDR service and working in an MDR or managed-services context.
• Familiarity with SIEM, EDR, SOAR, Sigma, YARA-L, SPL, and KQL.
• Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST CSF, and audit-ready reporting.
• Experience with AI-assisted investigation or automation tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on AI-native cybersecurity defense protecting real companies.
• Autonomy to shape SOC operations, influence the product, and own outcomes.
• Fast-moving, customer-focused culture with open communication, mentorship, and learning.
• Competitive annual compensation and a top-of-market equity component.