Ahead
Project Manager - Security Services
United States
Sponsorship not specified$140k-$170kDetected 50 days ago
Cloud PlatformsCybersecurityProject ManagementForecastingPerformance ManagementCustomer SuccessCommunication
About the role
- We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
- The Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering cybersecurity engagements with a focus on core AHEAD security offerings including identity and data security.
- This OTE range may vary based on the candidate's relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
Responsibilities
- Act as engagement lead on customer engagements
- Lead delivery of cybersecurity projects in identity, access, and data protection domains, including assessments, design, implementation, migration, remediation, and operationalization efforts.
- Coordinate project execution across consultants, architects, engineers, customer stakeholders, and partner vendors to ensure delivery quality, milestone attainment, and issue resolution.
- Manage RAID logs, project dependencies, change control, decision tracking, and executive status reporting for security engagements.
- Drive client governance cadences, including kickoff sessions, status meetings, risk reviews, steering updates, and acceptance/sign -off checkpoints.
- Partner with technical leads to align delivery plans to security controls, testing, cutover, validation, and post-implementation support needs.
- Manage multiple concurrent security engagements and shared resources across pods or workstreams while maintaining schedule and risk governance.
- Develop budgets and track budget expenses.
- Manage team members in a proficient and effective manner
Requirements
- 3-5 years of prior project management and planning experience.
- Experience managing cybersecurity, IAM, or data security projects in consulting, professional services, or enterprise IT environments.
- Familiarity with identity security concepts such as IAM, IGA, PAM, MFA, SSO, federation, RBAC, SoD, service accounts, and secrets management.
- Familiarity with data security concepts such as data discovery, classification, labeling, DSPM, DLP, retention, insider risk, and governance.
- Experience creating executive-ready status reporting, action plans, issue escalations, and customer-facing documentation.
Nice to have
- Preferred: PMP, CSM, ITIL, Security+, CISSP familiarity, or equivalent security/project delivery credentials.
Skills
- AHEAD builds platforms for digital business.
- Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.
- Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out.
Compensation
- The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings ("OTE") for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount.
Benefits
- The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings ("OTE") for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount.
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.
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