Junior Project Manager

Jobless; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits and GRSPu

Immediate and continual offensive sec.

Amazing team and working environment

Competitive compensation and growth

Fully remote in Canada

Generous vacation and personal days

Job summary

Packetlabs is seeking a Project Manager to oversee client engagements, including penetration testing projects, in a fast-paced security environment. You will ensure on-time delivery within budget, manage risks, and coordinate cross-functional teams across marketing, delivery, and operations.

The role emphasizes attention to detail, self-motivation, and the ability to work remotely within Canada, with opportunities to grow in a security-focused consultancy.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of project management and schedule management experience in a fast-paced IT environment.
• Scrum or PMP certification is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Learn and embrace Packetlabs culture and values.
• Understand Packetlabs product, industry, and positioning.
• Collaborate with marketing, delivery, and operations teams.
• Manage tasks, deliverables, scope, schedule, and costs.
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks.
• Create detailed work plans and resource allocation.
• Coordinate deliverables for seamless project execution.
• Prepare meeting materials and project plans.
• Coordinate administrative tasks within PMO.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Client-facing communication

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree or certification

Job description

The Project Management Office at Packetlabs supports a passionate team of highly trained, proactive, ethical hackers. We provide expert-level penetration testing services that are thorough and tailored to help foster a safe digital space where everyone has the right to privacy and security. Packetlabs consultants find weaknesses others overlook and continuously learn new ways to evade controls.

But technical rigor is only half of what makes an engagement successful. We believe client success is defined not just by what we deliver, but by how our clients feel throughout the process: informed, respected, and genuinely taken care of. Our Project Managers are the human face of that promise, the ones who turn a high-stakes, high-stress security engagement into an experience clients trust, recommend, and return for.

We hold ourselves to a very high standard.

To do so, we only hire individuals with the same drive and passion.

We are seeking a Project Manager who enjoys working in a fast-paced/dynamic environment and loves to challenge themselves continually. This role entails the management of client engagements, including penetration testing, objective-based penetration testing and web & mobile application security testing. Applicants need above-average attention to detail and be self-motivated, professional, and organized.

What you'll be doing

• Learn, understand and embrace the culture and core values of Packetlabs
• Gain an in-depth understanding of Packetlabs product, the industry, competitors, and where Packetlabs is positioned
• Works closely and collaboratively with other teams, such as marketing, delivery and operations, for maximum success
• Focus on key priorities and ensures delivery of project tasks and deliverables are on time, within budget and exceed quality requirements
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Create a detailed work plan that identifies and sequences the activities required to deliver each engagement successfully
• Develops project schedules and effectively allocate required resources between multiple concurrent projects
• Coordinates deliverables to ensure the seamless execution of projects
• Prepare meeting materials, meeting minutes, project-related presentations and project plans as required
• Manage changes to the engagement scope, schedule and costs using appropriate technologies
• Assist in the coordination of administrative tasks essential to the smooth operation of the Project Management Office (PMO), including but not limited to scheduling meetings, maintaining project documentation, updating project tracking tools, and facilitating communication among team members
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What you bring

• 2-3 years of experience in project management and schedule management in a fast-paced IT environment, experience with penetration testing is an asset
• Bachelor's Degree or Certification in a relevant field or equivalent experience, Scrum/PMP certification is an asset
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills with strong technical IT aptitude, understanding and the ability to grasp concepts
• Self-motivated, takes initiative and has proven success working remotely and independently
• Ability to be self-sufficient, able to prioritize and produce significant output with minimal wasted effort
• Demonstrates energy and a sense of urgency when executing day-to-day responsibilities
• A consummate communicator who can adapt to various personality types and leverage communication skills for success
• Ability to build influential relationships throughout an organization, experience dealing with a number of stakeholders
• Passionate about helping companies and organizations protect themselves against cyber attacks
• Demonstrates an entrepreneurial mindset, capable of working independently, internally driven to succeed and make a difference

Why us?

• Immediate and continual offensive security training
• Comprehensive benefits and GRSP matching
• Amazing team and working environment
• Competitive compensation and growth opportunities
• Fully remote in Canada
• Generous vacation and personal days

Packetlabs was built by an ethical hacker after seeing vulnerability assessments presented as penetration tests. Our sloga n "Identify Risks Before They Become Headlines" drives at the importance of not providing our clients with a false sense of security.