Head of IT

San FranciscoSenior$200,000 - $350,000

Magic’s mission is to build safe AGI that accelerates humanity’s progress on the world’s most important problems. We believe the most promising path to safe AGI lies in automating research and code generation to improve models and solve alignment more reliably than humans can alone. Our approach combines frontier-scale pre-training, domain-specific RL, ultra-long context, and inference-time compute to achieve this goal.

About the role

As Head of IT at Magic, you will own the systems that keep the company productive and secure. This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll lead a small IT team and set the technical direction for the function while remaining deeply involved in the work, from building automations and architecting systems to administering critical infrastructure and responding to incidents.

Automation is central to the role. You’ll build on our existing investment in automation to make IT increasingly self-service, reliable, and scalable, while deciding where and how to take it further.

What you'll work on

Own the function end-to-end: systems, endpoints, identity, SaaS, office infrastructure, support, and IT security
Lead a small team and set the technical direction, priorities, and standards
Make automation the default, eliminating toil and enabling self-service
Own our core stack, including SSO, SCIM, MFA, MDM, Google Workspace, and Slack
Partner with Security on least privilege, endpoint protection, patching, vulnerability management, and incident response
Own office technology across our locations, including networking, AV, conference rooms, and physical security
Build scalable IT systems, processes, and controls as Magic grows

What we're looking for

Experience owning and scaling IT functions in a fast-paced technical environment
A hands-on leader who can set direction, develop a small team, and be a strong technical contributor
Deep experience with macOS, MDM, Google Workspace, SaaS, identity, and access
Expertise using automation, APIs, AI tools, and Bash/Python to eliminate manual work
Strong security experience across endpoints, identity, access, vulnerability management, and incident response
Strong judgment and first-principles thinking; you evaluate solutions on their merits rather than defaulting to convention
Willingness to work beyond traditional IT boundaries, learn new domains, and contribute wherever needed to build holistic solutions

Our Culture

Integrity. Words and actions should be aligned
Hands-on. At Magic, everyone is building
Teamwork. We move as one team, not N individuals
Focus. Safely deploy AGI. Everything else is noise
Quality. Magic should feel like magic

Magic strives to be the place where high-potential individuals can do their best work. We value quick learning and grit just as much as skill and experience.