Senior IT Incident Response Manager / Fractional CISO, Security Leadership

Senior IT Incident Response Manager / Fractional CISO, Security Leadership
San Carlos, CA (on-site)

About 1X
We build humanoid robots that work alongside people to solve labor shortages and create abundance.

The Role
As the Senior IT Incident Response Manager / Fractional CISO, you will own 1X’s incident response program end-to-end and help establish the security operating rhythm across the business. You will design practical plans, lead real-world exercises, and command incidents when they occur. In a fractional CISO capacity, you will partner cross-functionally to align security priorities with business risk. This is a hands-on senior leadership role focused on readiness, clarity, and measurable improvement under pressure.

You Will

• Own the incident response lifecycle: prepare, detect, respond, recover, and continuously improve

• Design and run executive and technical tabletop exercises and live drills, driving follow-through on identified gaps

• Create and maintain practical playbooks covering account compromise, ransomware, lost devices, insider risk, vendor breaches, and cloud exposure

• Lead incidents in real time, establishing command structure, managing communications, maintaining decision logs, preserving evidence, and driving postmortems

• Define escalation paths, on-call expectations, and coordination models with SOC/MDR partners, incident response firms, and cyber insurance providers

• Partner with IT, Security, Legal, People Operations, Finance, and Engineering on crisis communications and business continuity

• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, and communication norms so teams operate effectively during high-pressure events

• Translate security risks into business decisions and prioritized action plans at the executive level