Senior Identity & Access Management (IAM) Lead

Senior Identity & Access Management (IAM) Lead, Security & IT 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 Identity & Access Management (IAM) Lead, you will own and scale 1X’s identity ecosystem to ensure access is secure, automated, and audit-ready—without slowing teams down. This is a hands-on senior role responsible for architecting, implementing, and operating our IAM infrastructure across core systems. You will design automation-first lifecycle processes, strengthen authentication controls, and establish scalable governance standards. Your work will directly enable secure growth as we expand our teams and systems. You Will Own IAM end-to-end across Okta, Google Workspace, 1Password, and HRIS-driven lifecycle management Build and automate Joiner, Mover, Leaver workflows to enable fast onboarding and reliable, secure offboarding Standardize and scale SSO and SCIM integrations across SaaS applications with a secure-by-default approach Design and implement RBAC strategies, group governance models, admin boundaries, and approval workflows Strengthen authentication and access controls, including risk-based policies, least privilege models, and privileged access management patterns Configure, troubleshoot, and continuously improve IAM systems directly, without reliance on external consultants Establish dashboards, metrics, and lightweight runbooks to maintain identity health as the organization scales Ensure offboarding processes fully revoke sessions, remove access, and secure credentials consistently Maintain clean and well-governed 1Password vault structures with clear ownership and healthy credential rotation practices