Head of IT

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.

Compensation, benefits, and perks (US)

Annual salary range: $200K - $350K

Equity is a significant part of total compensation, in addition to salary

401(k) plan with 6% salary matching

Generous health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents

Unlimited paid time off

Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if possible

A small, fast-paced, highly focused team