Lead IT Engineer
Later
Lead IT Engineer
Later
Social media management and influencer marketing
Later is the world’s most intelligent influencer marketing company, built to give brands the confidence to create unforgettable campaigns. By combining real creator relationships, trusted intelligence, and expert guidance, Later removes fear and guesswork from one of marketing’s most visible investments.
Built on a native, AI-powered platform and more than a decade of proprietary data—including billions of social interactions, impressions, and $2.4B+ in verified influencer-driven purchases—Later helps teams understand what will work before they launch.
By combining trusted insight with expert guidance, Later removes guesswork from influencer marketing, enabling brands to choose the right creators, execute fully managed campaigns, and drive meaningful growth across awareness, engagement, and revenue. Trusted by leading enterprise brands including Nike, Wayfair, Unilever, and Southwest Airlines, Later bridges creativity and performance so campaigns don’t just look good—they deliver results. Learn more at later.com.
About this position
We’re looking for a highly technical Lead IT Engineer to own and evolve our corporate IT systems, access, and security at a senior level. This is not a “tickets all day” role. It’s a deeply technical position that stays close to both planning and execution. You’ll build secure, well-configured, and well-governed systems and third-party integrations across identity/access, endpoint management, device compliance, and core productivity platforms (Google Workspace and key SaaS).
You will be the technical owner of the IT foundations that support SOC 2/ISO readiness, secure access, reliable onboarding/offboarding, and device compliance across a growing organization. We want someone who builds automation instead of doing the work by hand.
What you’ll be doing
Strategy
Technical / Execution
Team / Collaboration
Research / Best Practices
What success looks like
First 30 days:
Meet key stakeholders (IT, Security, DevOps, HR, Finance). Take ownership of IT intake: ticket flow, SLA usage, escalations, and current pain points. Audit Google Workspace, groups, SSO apps, device inventory (Mac/Windows), and current policies, including any existing scripts and automations. Review SOC 2/ISO requirements that touch IT (access, device compliance, evidence). Identify quick wins: clean up high-risk access, fix top recurring tickets, and document “how-to” basics for the team.
First 60 days:
Stabilize operations: reduce ticket backlog, tighten prioritization, and improve response consistency. Implement a clear, largely automated onboarding/offboarding workflow (Google Workspace + SSO + device provisioning) and standardize access requests. Roll out baseline endpoint compliance reporting (Kandji/Intune) for patching, encryption, and AV. Build a vendor/software inventory with owners and admin contacts. Start monthly access reviews and an evidence collection cadence for SOC 2 (and prep for Type II).
First 90 days:
Deliver measurable improvements: faster onboarding, fewer repeat tickets, and higher endpoint compliance (patching/encryption/AV). Lock down SSO standards: app catalog, ownership, least-privilege groups, and (where possible) SCIM automation. Ship your first set of production automations for your highest-volume manual tasks, with documentation. Formalize IT runbooks and a small project roadmap (next quarter). Ensure SOC 2/ISO readiness is “operational,” not ad hoc: recurring evidence, vendor reviews, and audit-ready documentation. Present a clear plan for future capacity needs (contractor vs. hire) based on volume and risk.
What you bring
Nice to have
How you work
Our approach to compensation:
We take a market-based & data-driven approach to compensation. We leverage data from trusted third-party compensation sources to help us understand the market value of a role based on function, level, geographic location, and scope. We evaluate compensation bi-annually, including performance and market-related factors.
Our salaries are benchmarked against market Total Cash Compensation for the geographic location of our job posting. Compensation for some roles is structured as On Target Earnings (OTE = base + commission/variable) while for others it is structured as Salary only.
To comply with local legislation and ensure transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. Skills, experience and other factors help determine the final salary we offer which may vary from the original range posted.
Additionally, all permanent team members are eligible to participate in various benefits plans as part of their overall compensation package.
Salary Range:$140K–$170K
#LI-Hybrid
We have offices in Boston, MA; Vancouver, BC; and Vancouver, WA. For select positions, we are open to hiring fully remote candidates. We post our positions in the location(s) where we are open to having the successful candidate be located.
At Later, we are committed to fostering a culture rooted in an inclusion-first mindset at every level of the company, embracing the importance of hiring and building teams for culture add rather than culture fit. We openly build and maintain unbiased hiring, pay, and promotion practices to create a foundation for an equitable workplace, paving the way for systemic change.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or age. Please let us know if you require any accommodations or support during the recruitment process.
Later provides a suite of social media tools for marketers, brands, and influencers, including social media management, influencer campaign automation, and a multi-destination bio link. Its products work together: Later Social Media Management plans and analyzes posts; Later Influence automates influencer outreach and tracks real-time ROI; Later Link in Bio routes traffic from a single profile link to multiple destinations, all via subscription plans. By combining these tools in one platform and offering expert services for large brands, Later differentiates itself from single-solution competitors and aims to deliver measurable returns from social activity. The company's goal is to help marketers generate predictable, data-driven results from social media and build the first Social Revenue platform.
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