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Director of IT and Workplace
Hippocratic AI
Job description
The Role
We've grown to roughly 265 people working onsite from our Menlo Park headquarters, supported by a large network of remote U.S.-licensed clinicians â and part of the Series C is earmarked for acquisitions. The systems and the spaces holding all of that together were built for a much smaller company. We're hiring a Director of IT & Workplace to own them properly.
You'll own two halves of the same problem: the employee technology platform â identity, endpoints, networking, the SaaS portfolio, and our IT security posture â and the physical environment the company runs on, from space planning and physical security to the AV that customer demos and all-hands depend on. You'll inherit a small, capable team and be accountable for leveling it up. You'll be the named owner for IT controls in our HIPAA and SOC 2 programs, you'll own the IT and workplace budget, and when we acquire a company, you'll be the one integrating it.
Our Environment
- Identity and access: Okta for SSO, MFA, and lifecycle provisioning.
- Productivity: Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, both in active use across the company.
- Endpoints: a Mac-primary fleet with Windows machines alongside it, managed through MDM. VDIs included.
- Internal systems: IRU, plus a growing portfolio of internal and third-party SaaS applications.
- Workplace: a Palo Alto headquarters with conference room AV and access control, plus a distributed clinician and staff population.
What You'll Do
Strategy, budget, and team
- Own a multi-year IT and workplace roadmap tied to the hiring plan, and bring it to leadership with clear tradeoffs and funding asks.
- Own the IT and workplace operating and capital budget: forecast it, defend it in planning cycles, and continuously rationalize license, vendor, and facilities spend.
- Lead, coach, and grow the existing team â set clear expectations, run honest performance conversations, hire as scope deepens, and build career paths that keep strong people.
- Define and publish service levels for ticket response, uptime, onboarding readiness, and workplace turnaround, and report against them to the executive team.
Technology and infrastructure
- Own the identity platform: SSO, MFA, automated joiner-mover-leaver provisioning in Okta, and access governance across every connected application.
- Own the endpoint fleet and the SaaS portfolio â Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, IRU, and a long tail of business applications â with enforced MDM baselines for encryption, patching, and configuration.
- Own network and connectivity for the headquarters and the remote workforce, with redundancy appropriate to a company our customers depend on.
- Replace manual provisioning, access reviews, and device setup with scripted, auditable workflows.
- Lead major programs end to end: platform migrations, upgrades, office buildouts, and the IT and workplace integration of acquired companies.
Security, compliance, and risk
- Serve as the accountable owner for IT controls in our HIPAA, SOC 2, and customer security review programs, including evidence collection and audit response.
- Enforce least privilege across the environment and run recurring access certifications with documented outcomes.
- Partner with Security on incident response and vulnerability remediation, and with Legal on data handling, retention, and discovery requests.
- Own business continuity and disaster recovery for corporate systems â write the plans, test them, and fix what the tests expose.
- Treat protected health information and confidential data with the care our customers and their patients expect. This is non-negotiable in everything we do.
Workplace and facilities
- Own day-to-day operations of the headquarters, and lead space planning and buildouts against a hiring plan that keeps moving.
- Manage physical security â access control and badging, visitor management, cameras, and emergency preparedness â aligned with our compliance obligations.
- Own conference room and event AV, including all-hands and customer visits, to a standard where the technology is never the story.
- Support remote clinicians and staff with reliable equipment logistics, home office standards, and consistent service regardless of location.
- Manage facilities, AV, security, and food vendors, plus landlord and lease matters, in partnership with Finance and Legal.
What You'll Bring
- 8+ years in IT , spanning hands-on administration or engineering and progressively senior ownership. You've done the work you'll now be leading.
- 3+ years managing IT or workplace teams , including hiring, performance management, and developing people into bigger roles.
- Proven ownership of an IT function through rapid growth. You've scaled systems and process ahead of headcount, not behind it.
- Deep technical expertise across identity (Okta or comparable), Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, MDM at fleet scale, and corporate networking.
- Experience as a named …
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