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Incident Manager, Safeguards

New York City, NYFull-time$245k–$285k2026-10-25 → 2026-11-10
HybridVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Manage Safeguards incidents involving AI systems from declaration through closure, coordinating cross-functional responses and overseeing enforcement on-call queues.

Role type

Senior IC incident manager (AI safety)

Builds

Incident response program, runbooks, post-incident reviews, and automation of routine work

Domain

AI safety and responsible technology development

Required skills

incident command, severity assessment, cross-functional coordination, executive communication, post-incident review, on-call triage, process improvement, automation design, SQL

Preferred skills

early incident response involvement, AI system incidents, enforcement steps, threat intelligence collaboration, regulatory reporting, on-call rotation management, AI tool automation, SQL data analysis, tabletop exercises

Technologies

SQL

Responsibilities

Serve as incident commander for Safeguards incidents; assess severity and coordinate responders across Legal, Communications, Policy, Threat Intelligence, Security, Engineering, and research; track input and send regular updates to executives; consult Legal, Communications, and Public Policy before decisions; run post-incident reviews and assign action items; oversee on-call queue as first responder; triage requests and route to owning teams; scope and deliver projects to improve incident response program; draft and maintain runbooks and SOPs; work with engineers to automate or reroute requests; maintain incident records and metrics.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC