Incident Response Team Lead
Austin, TXJob$112–165K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Meta’s Incident Response Team evaluates emergency escalations from law enforcement and internal sources, assessing threats, risks, and user privacy to determine what information can be released to help avert harm. The Team Lead guides team performance and development, improves operational efficiency and workflows, coordinates with internal and external partners, and supports urgent decisions and sensitive cases. The role includes direct casework and occasional weekend or after-hours leadership coverage.
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Full job description
Summary:
The Incident Response Team sits at the heart of how Meta responds We review and assess emergency escalations from law enforcement and from inside Meta, evaluating threat, risk and user privacy to decide what information can be released to help avert harm. These decisions are measured in minutes.
Required Skills:
Incident Response Team Lead Responsibilities:
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Bring operational excellence to a team that evaluates threats, risks, and user privacy in a world centered around time-critical emergency escalations
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Set clear expectations and goals for individuals and the team, and hold the team accountable for success
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Develop and communicate team strategy, including plans for improving operational efficiency and scaling workflows to meet growing demand
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Provide meaningful 1:1 mentorship, guidance and support for the career development, interests and goals of individual contributors, while removing roadblocks and encouraging innovative solutions
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Give clear, actionable feedback on a timely basis, and recognize people and teams for outstanding impact
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Foster a constructive and collaborative environment for individual contributors tasked with working an intensive caseload
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Proactively identify concerning team trends and put forward solutions
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Interpret performance metrics and impact organizational change as a result
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Support hiring, interviewing and onboarding for the team
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Create and articulate responses to questions from law enforcement, government agencies, and internal teams regarding incident response policy and process
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Work with cross-functional teams to drive improvements to policies and processes across the teams
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Provide real-time summaries for internal partners related to ongoing and resolved cases
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Support escalations related to sensitive subject matter with a high degree of urgency
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Make immediate decisions based on a variety of complex factors that will include imminence, sensitive issues and graphic content, and coordinate with several internal and external partners including law enforcement to ensure users' safety
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Work emergency escalations directly each month to stay current on tooling, policy and case handling
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Adapt to evolving priorities, processes, and organizational changes, and be available for domestic and international travel
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Be willing and able to work with sensitive issues and potentially graphic and/or objectionable content. This role may involve exposure to potentially graphic and/or objectionable content, including but not limited to graphic images, videos, audio, and writings, offensive or derogatory language, and other potentially objectionable material, i.e. child exploitation, graphic violence, self-injury, and suicide content, which may be considered offensive or disturbing
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Availability to work a standard Monday to Friday schedule, with occasional weekend or after-hours coverage to provide leadership and coordination during major incidents or periods of unplanned team absence
Minimum Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
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3+ years of experience in incident response, trust and safety, or a related operational field
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Experience managing competing priorities across multiple workstreams by setting clear timelines, delegating effectively, and maintaining quality standards
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Experience communicating complex operational information in writing and verbally to audiences ranging from team members to executives (e.g., incident summaries, status updates, policy recommendations)
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Able to work independently and make sound decisions in time-sensitive situations involving complex or sensitive factors
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Experience working autonomously to identify priorities and drive projects forward in high-stakes environments
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Must be able to pass a criminal background check
Preferred Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
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Experience supporting a team focused on safety issues
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Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
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Experience working in a globally distributed or 24/7 operation
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Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (ie. prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
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Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (ie. risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
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Track record of improving operational efficiency, or of scaling a team or workflow
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Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
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Experience partnering cross-functionally and across regions
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Experience managing, formally developing and onboarding others
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Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
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Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (ie. efficiency gains, quality improvements)
Public Compensation:
$112,000/year to $165,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Industry: Internet
Equal Opportunity:
Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.
Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 569 open Incident Response jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$112–165K/yr
- US median$115–206K/yr435 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $139K, is 15% below the US median midpoint ($163K) — in the middle half of Incident Response salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 27 open Incident Response jobs in Texas and 569 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- Accenture4 open
- EY4 open
- General Motors2 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Incident Response postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 510 postings).
- Education
- 159 of the 569 open Incident Response jobs (28%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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