Project Manager, Cybersecurity

Project Manager, Cybersecurity

Rate: Up to $80/hr.

Available for: 1099, C2C, or W2 with/without medical benefits

Location: Seattle, WA

Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

Duration: 12+ months

This role is not available to third-party firms/recruiters

This role is only available to USC or GC holder candidates

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Qualifications

• 8+ years of program or project management experience, including experience leading cybersecurity transformation and organizational change initiatives across large organizations.
• Demonstrated experience with enterprise identity modernization, AI governance, risk management, and secure technology adoption.
• Proven ability to prioritize security risks, manage cross-functional dependencies, and align business and security teams.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, executive communication, and change governance skills.
• Working knowledge of AI governance and compliance frameworks

Responsibilities

• Own the control prioritization process: apply risk-based criteria to rank, sequence, and re-baseline controls as risk, capacity, and business priorities change.
• Serve as the central coordination point between teams, managing intake, dependencies, conflicts, and handoffs so workflows have an operationalized and rinse and repeat approach.
• Build and maintain the integrated roadmap, schedule, RAID log, and resource view for controls.
• Support executive and steering committee communication, including status, risk escalations, trade-off options, and decision requests.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to effectively gather insights and provide clarity on processes.
• Define and report program KPIs and dashboards covering control implementation, adoption, frontline testing results, and remediation tracking.
• Drive remediation tracking to closure, escalating blockers and holding teams accountable to commitments.
• Partner closely with the Business Systems Analyst and Change Manager to ensure requirements, validation, and adoption are planned alongside delivery. xhyhwjd
• Facilitate governance forums, risk acceptance discussions, and cross-team decision-making.